Toru Saito used to pray God would give him blond hair and blue eyes.
Growing up Japanese in post-World War II America, Saito wanted to be treated like all the other kids. He wanted them to stop calling him a "dirty Jap."
"I always felt wrong for being Japanese," Saito, 79, said on a recent evening as he reflected on a lifelong battle with depression after being imprisoned for three years of his childhood at a camp in the Utah desert.