aliens" in their own country, the US - register. About 120,000 US residents of Japanese origin were interned during the war. Trump has cited Roosevelt's action on Japanese Americans as precedent for his own policy on Muslims.

Matsuoka has returned to Manzanar several times. February 19 marks the Day of Remembrance that commemorates the internment - this year is its 75th anniversary. Matsuoka would like to go to Manzanar for it, but explains: "The mind is willing, but the body isn't."

It's a four-hour drive to brave the bitter February cold of a region of California nestled between a snow-capped mountain range and a desert, beset by sandstorms - too much for many among the ageing community of survivors.

But Nakamaru will go. And Matsuoka entreats her, with a chuckle, tofind his lost marbles.

"When it was time to go, I couldn't bring my marbles. I couldn't take them with me, so I dug a hole," he says. "I had two gallon cans full of Victory marbles. Now, they are artefacts of children in Manzanar," he adds, joking that Nakamaru could split the sale of the marbles with him, half-half, if she were able to unearth them.

It is a federal offence for civilians to dig on Manzanar, now a federally protected historical site. Nakamaru knows and respects this, but she plays along. "Where did you bury them?" she asks, as though planning a heist.

And then, as though it were yesterday, Matsuoka explains that he buried them beside the cots where he and his family slept: "Block 11, Barrack 6,