Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. The attack on Pearl Harbor commanded by the imperial Japanese navy, as a profound military strike, led to an intense situation and domestic insecurity, ones lead the U.S. government shortly started to relocate and incarcerate nearly citizens of Japanese ancestry who lived on Pacific coast. ... There is some evidence to suggest the relationship between the father and the Emperor in Otsuka's novel, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate