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    primary concern will be sabotage knowing are 130,000 Japanese on the island. Also, Short told the Fielder that changes have to be made (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970). When Army General Short takes over the Hawaiian command on February 7, 1941. The Chief Of Staff warned him about the risk or sabotage, and a surprise attack by air and submarine to Pearl Harbor. Short took sabotage like the first and priority because the significant amount of Japanese in the land (Burtness & Ober, 2013, p. 743). General…

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    law has not been declared the standard civilian rights and constitutional laws are still in act on the territory of the United States in the created Military Zones. In this case, the Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 which stated that all people of Japanese descent must be excluded from the military zone clearly violates the 5th Amendment that states “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases…

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    wartime propaganda convincing themselves that the Japanese were animals instead of people. The American people began to believe the Japanese race was the “enemy” instead of the Axis powers. They had even convinced our own government to imprison its own citizens because of their race instead of their ideals. The internment of Japanese Americans encouraged racism in the U.S. because the wartime hysteria influenced the American people to think that the Japanese were the “enemy” and the government…

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    Between 1942 and 1945 he began to document the Japanese community forced to live in internment camps in California. In the mid- 40s Lange, who had been hired to record the Japanese - Americans in the concentration camps, was censured by the Relocation Authority War, because she was showing the internment camps for Japanese-Americans in a way the government did not agree. Dorothea Lange became world famous with her series of photographs…

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    Wakatsuki family and he has a strong character in this novel, Woody was born in California, Which simply means that everyone will be harmed during a war; even if someone is innocent, After the attack to the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Air force, USA government decided to intern Japanese-American people to keep them in a camp, we know that as Manzanar. The book Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne D. Houston and James D. Houston, describes the life of the people who lived in the camp during world war…

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    that Kabuo’s a Jap. And I don't hate Japs, but I don't like ‘em neither. It’s hard to explain. But he’s a Jap”’ (297). The Japanese community became a target for hatred despite, the fact that they lived on the same land as the other Americans. Kabuo was put into a similar situation as the other Japanese individuals where, the war caused the Americans feel dislike for the Japanese population. Like Carl, he…

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    Life for the Japanese Americans became very hard following Executive Order No. 9066. Once the war ended, the Japanese returned to their homes and faced housing, employment, and racial discriminations. Overnight, the life of the Japanese Americans changed significantly when over one hundred and ten thousand people had to leave their homes and move to detention camps. The reasoning behind them having to go to detention camps was because of racial prejudice and war hysteria. After living in…

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    internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two and the Red-Scare brought on during the Cold War with the fear of Russian espionage in America. The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers was one of the biggest events that caused not only an American epidemic of fear but a worldly epidemic. These three events are one of the just many examples of how the fear from the public can evolve into some of the biggest examples of mass hysteria in modern history. The internment of…

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    The sudden attacks executed by the Japanese in the Pacific violated the long-standing peace between us. Many American soldiers and sailors have been killed by enemy action. American ships have been sunk; American airplanes have been destroyed. We have been neutral all these 6 years of war, but no longer. We are now in this war. We are all in it. We must share the bad news and the good news, the defeats and the victories, the losses and the recoveries. So far, the news has been depressing. We…

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    Japanese Comfort Women

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    sexism and dehumanization present in the comfort camps, the Japanese government fully supported and approved a war crime “to exploit in warfare” to oppress women and rally the optimism of troops of the Japanese Imperial Army. In the 30's and 40's, the Japanese Imperial Army, with full support from the government, degraded thousands of Korean comfort women by way of forced prostitution,…

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