(National Archives and Records Administration, 22). Every country whose citizens were one of the affected had trials held for war crimes. The Japanese Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii was a part of Unit 731, who exchanged documents used against his colleagues in order to get a lesser sentence ...
The sentence is a peculiar way to describe the Gannon hearings because of all that it leaves out – that the Gannon committee and Fair Play were political adversaries, that Fair Play was the target of the investigation, that Millikan was called up because of his support of Fair Play, that ...
“‘We weren’t fed very well in the camp, so we had to buy food from the Chinese outside the camp,” said Scanlan, who now lives in Perris. When he was caught, he spent one week in solitary confinement--a light sentence because of his religious vocation. But the majority of the ...
Yet when Fahy stood before the justices, Irons said, he told them "he stood by 'every sentence, every line and every word'" in an intelligence report that already had been debunked. Katyal's post may be the first time a Justice Department official has spoken so candidly about the mistake...
The last sentence of the “Bonsai” is a lament: “What was once the embrace of ghostly lovers has become the clutching of skeletons, macabre in their grappling with death” (268).“Bonsai” presents an encounter with and an homage to aesthetic beauty across cultural and national boundaries....
three. In the trial, failure to report for the draft was only considered. The fact that we were being drafted from a concentration camp was not brought up. Only that we had broken the Selective Service Act. We were found guilty and given a 3 year sentence to serve in a Federal ...
Today I found out about a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II a full 29 years after the Japanese surrendered, because he didn’t know the war was over. Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading ...
Bernard Kuehn was found guilty by a military tribunal of spying and sentenced to be shot in Honolulu. His sentence was later reduced to 50 years of hard labor after he provided information about the Japanese and German spy networks. After World War II ended, Kuehn was deported to Germany. ...
Japanese American Evacuation CasesThis 1943 photograph by Ansel Adams shows the Manzanar Relocation Center located near Independence, California. The camp was one of ten centers to which Japanese American citizens and Japanese resident aliens were held during World War II.LIBRARY OF CONGRESSIn the mids...