[8] In May 1942, Nakamura and her family were forcibly sent to the Manzanar concentration camp in California as a result of Executive Order 9066.

[8][9][10] Nakamura and her family were released from Manzanar to go live with her uncle in Grand Junction, Colorado.

[11] She married Yoshio “Yosh” Nakamura in 1950 after meeting him at the Union Church in Los Angeles.

[2] With the assistance of a scholarship from American Friends Service, Nakamura started studying sociology and education in 1944 at the University of Redlands where she would graduate with a Bachelor of Arts.

[2] In March 2007, her and her husband's multimedia artwork - “Twin Visions" - was exhibited by the Whittier College's Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts.

Inspired Images from the Land of Enchantment.”[7] Nakamura and her husband supported the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and it's “Go For Broke National Education Center.”[2] Nakamura had donated suitcases she had taken to Manzanar concentration camp to JANM's permanent collection.