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...
The first destination country of Japanese emigrants in Latin America is Mexico,which has the largest number of Japanese migrants in Latin America during the Meiji period. Japanese people emigrated to Mexico beginning with a land contract between Japanese foreign minister Enomoto Takeaki and the Mexican...
West Nile virus was first detected in North America in 1999 and has spread throughout the United States and Canada and into Mexico and the Caribbean. The cases of encephalitis in New York were diagnosed as Saint Louis encephalitis which ... T Takasaki - 《Nihon Rinsho Japanese Journal of Cli...
Japanese and Chinese culture in America in the first half of the 20th century was that of a world within a world. Racial differences led these groups to take more time to develop their separate identities. In the case of Japanese Americans, we see a world that was steeped in the ...
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From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and now fear their unique culture is being lost. Gil Asakawa's celebration of what makes JAs so special is an ...
Latin America has the largest Japanese community outside Japan, both first-generation migrants and their descendants. The exact numbers are impossible to determine, but best estimates suggest that well over 1 million are living in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Paraguay, Bolivia, and a few other countries...
Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001); Peter Feng, Identities in Motion:Asian American film and Video (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002); David Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Durham, U...
In the perspective of our legal tradition, the facts are almost incredible. During the bleak spring of 1942, the Japanese and the Japanese-Americans who lived on the West Coast of the United States were taken into custody and removed to camps in the interior. More than 100,000 men, women...
The American concept of "Japanese art" was ethnologically imagined and commercially created in the nineteenth century. For many Americans at that time, the term "Japanese art" referred to such items as decorative objects, illustrated books and ethnic garments. Then in the twentieth century, as th...