Japanese people

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…

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…

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,…

The Colorado river relocation center was the J.A internment Camp Poston AZ for Japanese american through 1942 to 1945. For the location of the camp was Yuma county Arizona that was 17 miles south of parker, From the size of the land was 71,000 acres. And that Poston was the largest of the camps. From the populations peak was 17,814 with men, women, and children. From the 4 years that every Japanese american was in the camp the climate was terribly hot for them to just having hot and cold…

the young girl who narrates it does not comprehend the seriousness of what is going on she says “I didn’t understand this. Hadn’t we arrived” (17)? This little Japanese girl and her family were sent to an internment camp in the dessert of California during World War II. The details of what happened to her family members and other Japanese families during these war times in America, are documented in this book. The author writes this book to show how it truly felt to be Asian in America at this…

reported her husband, Kenneth Manzanares, was found with blood covering his hands and clothes in their cabin. Kristy's husband confessed the murder to someone he knew on the ship who walked in to find the woman's bloodied body dead on the floor. More people came into the couple's cabin…

Manzanar Final Write Up: Contrary to most people, I did not enjoy the book “Farewell to Manzanar”. The story itself was only partly interesting and I personally am not a fan of non-fiction. Real life is almost never as interesting as someone else's imagination. In addition, reading a non-fiction war story only made me sad since it actually happened. Jeanne Wakatsuki (the author and narrator) was the character I connected to the most. Just like me, she was the youngest in her family.…

Japanese. These women because they can look back and reflect on their experiences, serve as historical reference to some of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during World War II. Through this new evidence, historians can create new perspectives on a historical period in time. This theme of harsh treatment at the hands of the Japanese is also prevalent in Toshiyuki Tanaka work Hidden horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. This book describes the acts of cannibalism towards…

Oftentimes, knowledge about the background of authors can lead to a deeper and more thorough understanding of their work. Erin L. McCullough is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia (cite- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erin_Mccullough2). She was a PhD student at the University of Montana and has a recently updated blog in which her most recent papers and publications can be found (https://erinlouisamccullough.wordpress…

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…