Following the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese Empire in December 1941, other Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. ... Based on these circumstances, Japanese Americans were no longer treated the same as other Americans.  ... In other words, Japanese Americans were willing to die fighting for their country just like any other Americans. ... Unlike Japanese Americans, African Americans did not face suspicion on their loyalty to the United States.  ... Because of that policy, Japanese Americans and African Americans were given the opportuniti...

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First of all, the father physically has typical characteristics of Japanese ancestry such as black hair, slanted eyes, thick glasses, thin lips and high cheekbones, and also he represents a symbolic person of Japanese-American who are from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. ... However, is the father a real Japanese spy employed by the Emperor based on these pieces of evidence? According to the father's appearance and background information in the novel, it seems that he has a close relationship with the Emperor, but there are still numerous Japanese-Americans like him n...

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