Japanese diaspora

This diaspora will often come from non-majority members of the sending society, be comprised heavily of families, and will closely mirror whatever the social class of the minority group was in the sending country. Regardless of whether this type of diaspora has been outside their home country for five of fifty years, it is highly unlikely to support state-driven efforts to mobilize its diaspora through political parties or economic development projects. Instead, if Class A diaspora continue to…

World War II was a very difficult time for almost everyone living in either the Allies’ or Axis’ countries, especially for people of Japanese descent living in Canada. The Japanese-Canadian internment is a defining moment in Canada because it shows how poorly the Canadian governments, politicians, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and labour unions treated Japanese-Canadians. They had no freedom; were incarcerated in internment, road, or prisoners-of-war camps; and lastly, were unequal…

generation Japanese-American named Ichiro Yamada. The year is 1946 and Ichiro, a former undergraduate student at the University of Washington, returns home to Seattle after spending two years at an internment camp and federal prison. He was punished for refusing to serve in the Armed Forces and to swear allegiance to the United States. At that time, he became a “no-no boy.” The reason behind his resentment was because was mad over the fact that the United States’ government placed innocent…

create prejudice. Fears of unfamiliar customs, differences in religion, and personal appearance issues created prejudices exhibited by the Japanese and the “barbarians”. The Japanese people called Americans the “foreign devils—the barbarians” (4). Fear was created in the Japanese because of their unfamiliarity with the American customs. In the book, the Japanese felt the Americans’ customs made them barbarians. They killed animals for shoes (26). Americans sat on benches rather than the floor…

Edmund Burke has said that Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. After Pearl Harbor in World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were stripped of their belongings, property, and businesses very similarly to the Jews being put into the ghetto by the Germans. Since the Iranian Hostage Situation, the 1993 World Trade Center and the 9/11 attacks, Muslim and Arabian Men, Women, and Children were against based on their religion and ethnicity. Some have even been arrested unfairly…

differs greatly amongst the country it originates from. It is imperative for people to recognize the significant amount of differences there are in daily rituals and lifestyle between the Chinese and Japanese, even those that immigrated to America or were descents of immigrants. Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans have long been bundled together, when in reality there is a great amount of variation between them.…

Some of the Japanese men even joined the army because it was the only way to get out of the camp. “The only way out was joinin’ the army. And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on, and ended up flyin’ to Japan with a bomb” (Shinoda) it’s here that you get a sense of how desperate these men were to get out that they’d betray their own homeland for freedom. This was the first instance of Japanese American soldiers, “Japanese Americans were now permitted to form…

The Diaspora’s Influence on the Peacemaking Efforts In terms of aiding in peace, the Irish diaspora did a few different things that were absolutely vital to the establishment of peace in Ireland as well as the creation and signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Firstly to start it is important to note how important the US was in the development of peace. The US was not some small influence or bit part, but rather they were the “critical enabler and catalyst” for the peace talks that happened in…

Migration Through the Lens of Diasporas The Jewish diaspora of the 8th century BCE was the first of its kind, but the term which would grow increasingly difficult to define and apply as time went on. In his essay, “Diasporas,” James Clifford attempts to elucidate the history and development of the term ‘diaspora’ and critically look at its implications. Defining the term diaspora, a task which seems simple, turns out to be the biggest obstacle to overcome in studying them, and that is what…

cultural and social history, a hotspot for tourists and Los Angeles natives alike, a landmark of Japanese American society right in the center of downtown Los Angeles. With its roots tracing as far back as the 1880’s, even to this day it continues to bring in and entertain tourists daily, with its small town charm and many interesting and exciting attractions. Little Tokyo serves as a hub for Japanese culture and tradition, new and old. The town has seen many years worth of change, for the…