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The Hidden Concentration Camps According to the government, it was a “War Relocation Center” and was used to “evacuate” and help the Japanese Americans. According to those unjustly incarcerated, it was a concentration camp; its purpose was to keep watch over the aliens and citizens. In one photo from Manzanar, three Japanese girls are huddled in front of a poorly made barrack with tar paper and wood starting to chip and tear away. Although two girls are facing towards the camera and smiling,…

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…

the internment of Japanese American citizens.There are many reasons in which it was not justified, such as that Japanese Americans assimilated to American culture which proves that they wanted to be apart of America. They even wanted to bring their families with them, that shows that they want to show their new life to their families. Most of all, the internment of Japanese American citizens was not justified because there was little evidence that they were a threat. Japanese Americans…

The horrors of Internment camps had become a reality to many Japanese-Canadians in World War Two, along with the racism and ill treatment the Issei [first generation Japanese-Canadians] and Nisei [second-generation Japanese-Canadians] had faced. The idea of this discrimination ending with the end of the war was farfetched. In fact, many are still trying to build and expand their identity today. Life indeed became different to Japanese-Canadians as how they had known it before World War Two, and…

counter-narrative is a narrative of the marginalized, and the oppressed. The novel When the Emperor was Divine is a counter, historical fiction book written by Julie Otsuka that critiques the hegemonic narrative of WW2. The author writes about a Japanese-American family living in the US during World War 2, that are forced into an incarceration camp in Utah. The main characters of the book all changed their coping mechanisms throughout the book. The mother had the coping mechanism of a turtle…

Japanese Kawaii: A Bibliographic Essay The focus of this bibliographic essay is the Japanese idea of kawaii. The term kawaii is generally translated as “cute” in English, but it’s actual meaning in Japan is far wider and more complex. In addition to exploring the extent of the kawaii phenomenon, my research revealed multiple questions or ideas for me to potentially address in my paper. These include the topic of kawaii on Japanese youth, specifically the effect on the identity and self-image of…

All members of the faculty, our new students, good afternoon! On behalf of the faculty and students from the School of Translation Studies, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new faces here. Now please allow me to share with you the expectation from the school faculty for all freshmen. My first point is about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s…

METHODS The primary method of research that is utilized in this paper is a historical analysis. The topic at hand is reparations improving the lives of African Americans, which needs much historical background. In this paper, German-Israeli and Japanese reparations set the precedent for the current topic of African American reparations. African Americans have yet to receive any reparations for slavery so the only way to estimate the impact of reparations can be seen. Since reparations have yet…

Roosevelt had to address two challenges in his Pearl Harbor Address. Roosevelt had to address the sudden, planned hostility by Japan and the doubt of domestic security for America. In his address Roosevelt spoke of the many predetermined attacks of the Japanese stating: Yesterday,…

life. But neither of those literacies affected me in the same way that my third language did. At 15 years old, I became obsessed with the Japanese language. I remember picking up a self-teaching book at Chapters and devouring it chapter by chapter, and the more I knew, the more I craved to know more. However, it was never my plan to learn to write in Japanese. I found their writing system beautiful, to be sure; but not to the point of dedicating myself to learning over two thousand characters…