Internmentis the confinement of a person as prisoner. This is usually done for political or military reasons, and leads to the exploitation and mistreatment of large groups of people. Due toanti-Japanese sentimentsafter the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 120,000Japanese Americanswere interned for ye...
Today, at 90-years-young, Sam is the only camp survivor who tours nationally and internationally speaking about this dark time in our history. Over 90,000 people have heard Sam’s story detailing the difficulties he, his family and other Japanese Americans faced before, during and after the ...
The American government used propaganda in WWII to get the Americans to become involved in the war effort. The government and publicly-owned media outlets published propaganda to encourage nationalism and support for the war. The government used propaganda to gain financial and emotional support and ...
ww2dbaseIn the American territory of Hawaii, 35% of the population was of Japanese descent, thus logistically it was impossible to intern them; only about 1,200 to 1,800 of the 150,000 Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were interned. With the territory operating under martial law, threat of espi...
Americans tend to think of the Japanese soldiers as tyrannical and inhumane. However, in some cases they seem to have treated the locals better than their former white masters, paying them a fair wage and giving them limited freedom. There seem to have been some cases where the tribesmen actu...
“No-No Boy,” and in this panel we will examine the imagined world of the novel along with the real history behind it. Family historian Shox Tokita shares the legacy of Chinatown hotels managed by Japanese Americans, including three owned by his mother; former Seattle City Councilmember ...
ww2dbaseNone of these skirmishes seriously dented the Americans' ability to wage war, but only twelve weeks into the war with Pearl Harbor still very fresh in everyone's mind, the coordinated naval activity all along the western coastline certainly gave Americans cause for concern. If it had ...
它不是由日本人遭受战争犯罪在WW2期间仅的许多国籍的中国人,而且人们在亚洲。[translate] aJapan have no rights to get angry over the registrations. Its in their history and they are facts. They registered the glory of kamakazee pilots who killed many Americans in their suidice missions and so wh...
over 25 sea miles from the Pearl Harbor entrance. The sub was captured with both torpedoes still in its tubes and its commanding officer became the first Japanese POW captured by US forces in the war. [This sub is known as "Ha-19" in most US sources because the Americans found that num...
“while Allegiance may have attempted to ‘boldly go where no musical has gone before,'” it can also be viewed as a throwback to the bad old days when the common wisdom pitted the veterans against the resisters (“a false dichotomy,” Larry says), and Japanese Americans were understood ...