TV crew to stage WWII film in Colfax

Downtown Colfax is going all 1940s for three days next month at the hands of a Japanese television station here to film a TV mini-series.

Up to 100 Japanese filmmakers out of Los Angeles and New York City will fly into Spokane to film for three weeks on locations around Eastern Washington.

A major Japanese company, Tokyo Broadcasting System, plans to shoot a 10 hour, five episode docu-drama mini-series depicting the Japanese interment camps in America during World War II.

It will be broadcast exclusively on the Tokyo Broadcasting System for Japanese viewers.

The crew on May 8 and 9 will decora...