... conflict contiguous to the American and Japanese-American races. This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath the everyday smiling faces of Japanese and American bystanders is awakened heightening tension in the small island community. This recently catalyzed restlessness in the community ... years earlier, as the white citizens looked the other way when their fellow townspeople, the Japanese-Americans, were relocated to Japanese concentration camps ...

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