Following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1942, over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to US incarceration camps simply because of their ethnic origin. The current socio-political climate in the States has caused many to show concern of a similar path toward intense discrimination, including Kaoru Ishibashi aka Kishi Bashi, whose own parents emigrated from Japan to America. It's the basis for the former Of Montreal member's fourth album, 'Omoiyari', and more specifically, 'Summer Of '42'.
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