Japanese mythology

(Adler 44) Dewitt’s reasoning and evidence for a Japanese uprising were looked into by both the FBI and by military investigators, who ultimately concluded that there was no basis for his claim. (Adler 44) Despite this however, Dewitt still promoted his fear mongering baseless claims, eventually even flat out saying that the Japanese race was “an enemy race”. (Adler 46) With the amounting pressure before him, Roosevelt had no choice but to…

Throughout American history, there have been countless groups of people that have been marginalized socially, politically, and especially economically. Groups of people such as workers, immigrants, poor people, women and especially people of color were marginalized and still are in today’s society. They have been “shunned” and seen as the outsiders of the perfect American society. Despite being excluded from the American society, these groups of people have continued to make America work for…

The human race has blood on its hands. We have segregated, subjugated, and slaughtered other humans due to something as small as race, a made social concept. This made up idea contributed to the scars of our history: Slavery, the Holocaust, Japanese Internment camps. We have made many horriable mistakes, but we have attempted to right the wrongs committed by our ancestors. These attempts, called reparations, often leave the problems unsolved. They are limited by the word “reparation” itself. A…

Game Commission (1948) According to Angelo, the U.S Supreme Court struck a California law that denied immigrants ineligible for US citizenship the right to fish in waters along the California Coast. Created in 1943, a California statute prohibited Japanese immigrants from acquiring fishing business licenses. The law was amended in 1945 to prohibit all aliens ineligible for citizenship from fishing. Takao Takahashi had a commercial fishing license from 1915 to 1942, and therefore, was affected by…

Kim Yu-jong’s “The white rabbit” and Park Won-so’s “Mother’s hitching post” were written in different historical backgrounds; “The white rabbit” has a setting of Japanese colonial period and “Mother’s hitching post” has a setting of the Korean war. However, the two stories express one common theme, which is the pain of Koreans. In his story, “The white rabbit”, Kim Yu-jong describes the pain of Koreans who felt powerless due to their loss of nationality under Japan’s colonization. In Park…

John W Dower, Japanese history professor at the University of San Diego, examines the relationship between the Japanese and the United States during the Pacific War. After the Pearl Harbour attack the American people reacted in panic and rage towards their Japanese enemies by producing slanderous and racist propaganda often depicting them as apes, vermin and rapists. During this time the Japanese became the dominant power in Asia, their goal was to ‘advance south’ which challenged not only…

Racial Prejudice 3.1 Result of Pearl Harbour Evidence suggests racial prejudices played a part in Truman’s decision as well. The event of Pearl Harbour on December 7th, 1941, had led many Americans to be bloodthirsty and bitter for revenge. The Japanese were not viewed as human compared to the white race as a result of racial prejudice, and many Americans agreed with these thoughts. Although in American society there were references to Germans as “krauts,” and Italians as “tonies” or…

Harbor attack will forever be viewed as the dark ages for the U.S. Laws were executed to stop Japanese immigration. Japanese Americans faced so much discrimination. About 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated in internment camps, were they faced harsh times. Japanese Americans were not allowed to enlist in the military for being “the enemy raise” but later were able serve in the military. About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the military, they joined about 4,500 troops in the 442nd…

that I registered in tea ceremony class in this semester is that I am strongly interested in the Japanese tea ceremony due to the knowledge of tea culture in my country, my personal experience during last spring break, and the self-requirement I set up for myself as a international student. I have desire to learn the Japanese tea ceremony culture because I want to know the difference between Japanese SADOU and Taiwanese CHAYI (arts of tea). When I was child, I had learned some basic knowledge of…

somewhere unfamiliar, was falsely accused of something you never did, and had to deal with race prejudice everyday? This was the injustice the Japanese Americans had to go through during WW II. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 12/071941, the United States reaction took a very effective part in american history. The FBI started arresting Japanese American known as community leaders and were taken away from their families. President Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066, which allowed…