sentences:  Kubota and his family were interned at Camp Minidoka in Idaho during the early days of World War II.His Seattle-born son Tom (1917–2004) would meet his wife at Minidoka.In the year before his death, the Japanese Government honored this lifelong gardener by presenting him with the Order of the Sacred Treasure "for his achievements in his adopted country, for introducing and building respect for Japanese Gardening."