Many Americans know about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (Armor & Wright 11), but what they many not know is that because of that attack the United States Government thought it would be in best interest of for everyone to have this group of people (people of Japanese blood) evacuated from their homes, towns, communities, etc
and sent them to temporary living areas. It was for the safety of America and for the supposed "protection" of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the public in case of any acts of revenge towards the group (Adams 34).
In the year of 1942, 110 thousand Japanese and non-American or alien Japanese (non-Americans or aliens because, even though they have lived in America for over years, they could not become citizens under certain American laws.) "migrated" into new areas to call home. Not only did the U.S. government have these people evacuated, but they also took on the duty of assisting the evacuees in becoming "reestablished". To do this the agency called the War Relocation Authority (WRA) was set up by the President on March 18, 1942. The WRA took part in the building of the relocation camps; at first they were made to only accommodate a certain number of the evacuees with the hopes that they would move to unrestricted areas, but only a few did (Relocation of Japanese-Americans 1, 3). These camps had two intentions and one of those was "to provide communities where evacuees might live and contribute, through work, to their own support pending their gradual reabsorption into private employment and normal American life-(Relocation of Japanese-Americans 2). This meaning that because the relocated Japanese-Americans and alien Japanese would get help from the WRA in a number of ways and with this assistance could have even been granted the access to leave the camp because they would get an job on the outside they would be able to get back into a community (Relocation of Japanese-Americans 1-2).
She and the other women of the community notice the boats returning. ... The family is soon sent to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp inland. ... The living quarters do not get better for a long time, but the War Department does send old clothes from World War I so that the people at Manzanar are not so cold. ... There, they always ate meals together, which they do not do at Manzanar. ...
In some camps teams played softball because of lack of equipment like Jack Kunitomi who spent the internment time in Manzanar. ... As for Kunitomi and the Manzanar camp players and teams were able to order equipment and formed more than 80 baseball teams. ... Internees' ability to find ways to turn the relocation site experience into a sort of small community was a way of showing defiance to the government and letting them know that they could not keep Japanese American morale and cultural values down. ...
In some camps teams played softball because of lack of equipment like Jack Kunitomi who spent the internment time in Manzanar. ... As for Kunitomi and the Manzanar camp players and teams were able to order equipment and formed more than 80 baseball teams. ... Internees' ability to find ways to turn the relocation site experience into a sort of small community was a way of showing defiance to the government and letting them know that they could not keep Japanese American morale and cultural values down....
Using the courtroom and Kabuo's murder case, Guterson places the entire community of San Piedro on trial, highlighting the fragility of the island as a whole. ... However, Guterson is eager to constantly emphasis the difference of ideals of individual and community. While Kabuo is labelled a poker-faced Jap by the San Piedro community, it is the testimony of those who know Kabuo as an individual which can look past racial circles. ... In their closing statements, the prosecution plays its hand by identifying Kabuo as part of the Japanese community, a group not willingly accepted by S...
"One of the patterns emerging from the post 9-11 government policies is the use of race,religion,and ethnicity to target particular communities in the U.S. for arrest, detention and removal. ... As one can see in this disgustingly racist portrayal of a Japanese soldier, the subject's eyes are exaggeratedly skewed in an up to down manner, the teeth are bucked (something that I have rarely seen in the Japanese community), and also notice how the ears and eyes are slightly misaligned, which is probably stating something to the extent of "Japanese people are not as smart as us." ...
(John Tateishi pg. xiv) There were no grounds for evicting the Japanese Americans so west coast politicians and pressure groups turned to racial attacks that questioned the loyalty of the entire Japanese community. ... During this time Hawaii was considering relocating it's Japanese communities but they did not because Japanese Americans were Hawaii's major work force. ... There were fifteen different relocation camps that the Japanese people were sent to such as, Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain ...
