Ostuka writes in the perspective of the American neighbors saying, “office notices nailed to the telephone poles on the street corners downtown, but already they are beginning to tatter and fade, and after last week’s heavy spring rains only the large black letters on top- Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” (117). I love this line because with all the businesses being taken over by the white people, this is a metaphor for all that is left of the Japanese in these communities, just the memory of their presentence. Then, slowly their houses were taken, and just like the notices nailed to the poles, all evidence of the Japanese faded. The evolution of the perspective white Americans had on the Japanese changed a lot after their
