Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. ... Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). ... The internment of many Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor left many generations with a haunting past. ... In the article, Jane Naomi Iwamura goes into great detail about the struggle of Japanese Americans and the emergence of a new Japanese American civil religion, but in the middle of the article she goe...

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One question I will try to answer for you is why Japan attacked us in Pearl Harbor. In September 1940, the U.S. placed an embargo on Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan, due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. ... The U.S. then asked Japanese to leave Manchuria and Southeast Asia, but they refused. ... Our purpose was to frighten the Japanese in the Pacific so that they would hopefully turn around and head back to Japan. ... It is a mistake every generation must unfortunately deal with. ...

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The first scene that catches my eye automatically is how the film lacks a clear reason why the Japanese Empire decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. ... The only explanation the film gave was when the Japanese admiral described the mission. ... Knowing the information I learned in class, the attack was a precaution the Japanese decided to take in order to damage naval forces and keep the U.S. fleet from interfering with the overtaking that the Japanese Empire was planning against the United Kingdom. ... In the events of history both General Marshal and Admiral Nimitz knew that an attack on Japan was ...

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Secondly, the Japanese internment of 1942 was a giant step backwards for both Canada and Human rights and freedoms. It began the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and it lasted until Japan surrendered. Thousands of innocent Japanese-Canadians were simply arrested and put inside internment camps. ... The Japanese internment is important because it proves the point of how Canada has not always been how it is today. Just because the internment was not a good thing does not cancel it from being a defining moment, this event must never be forgotten because we need it to teach future gene...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the Pearl Harbor Address to the House of Representatives after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. ... He talks about having peace with Japan and then saying our country was working on maintaining peace. ... Roosevelt also makes Japan to be this very large and powerful country, by calling them the "Empire of Japan". There is quite some repitition in his speech when he talks about how Japan not only attacked our nation but attacked several others as well. ... He talks about our countries youth, strength, and a vision of a generation. ...

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For example for World War II positivists will say if Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor the United States wouldn't join the war. ... It is a way of saying that the past generation made some mistake and history is a way of making it not repeat itself. ... It many Japanese lives because they were taken away from their home. This happened because the United States was scared of the situation whereby Japanese-Americans were going to be giving Japan news on what the United States was planning. ... The Japanese military were so scared of the strong bond between the United States and its all...

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This has not happened since December 7th, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. ... Many people who have lived through World War II fear for the upcoming generations and the struggles they will have to deal with as time progresses, due to the unpredictability of terrorist attacks, and the serious affects they have on the entire world....

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