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The War of the Japanese The day was December 7, 1941. Unlit Christmas lights are strung on green palm trees and the day is just beginning for the navy base in Pearl Harbor. But then time took over. At 7:55 AM, Japanese fighter planes carrying deadly bombs flew in, ready to destroy the American naval base. In as little as two hours, there were four battleships destroyed and four more damaged. Dozens of more heroic war stories were born. And America had entered the second war of the world. THE…

World War II. In high school and middle school the subject of the Pearl Harbor attack was a little vague compared to what I know now. We only learned the events leading up to the attack and what happen after the attack. We never learned what the Japanese Americans had to go through and how they were discriminated against. They forced to leave their houses, business, farms, schools, and jobs to go into a refugee camp due to Americans fearing the unknown. Ted Talk of George Takei was really…

letters on top- Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” (117). I love this line because with all the businesses being taken over by the white people, this is a metaphor for all that is left of the Japanese in these communities, just the memory of their presentence. Then, slowly their houses were taken, and just like the notices nailed to the poles, all evidence of the Japanese faded. The evolution of the perspective white Americans had on the Japanese changed a lot after their…

On the night of 31 May – 1 June, we the people of Australia were lurched into WW2 which we had been immune from for so long. Over this weekend, there was a daring attempt by 3 Japanese midget submarines to infiltrate the partly constructed anti-submarine boom net and enter Sydney Harbour. The submarines which consisted of 2 crew members per vessel entered the harbour under orders to sink allied war ships. As soon as the first submarine was sighted anti-submarine guns on the shore and naval units…

19 February 1942. A total of 365 days have passed since the Japanese bombing of Darwin. Our now heavily populated thriving city of Townsville has transformed drastically from our once only main hub of Flinders Street. Many of us repeatedly question the Japanese and their motives behind their desire to bomb our golden country. Without a doubt, Japan has one of the strongest and loyal approaches to imperialism. We can only substitute Japan’s steel imperialism as an answer for their destructive…

frightened of Japan. Many people believe that Japanese Americans remained loyal to Japan as spies, although most were American citizens. The US government began to gradually limit the rights of Japanese Americans, and eventually forced them to leave their homes and be detained in detention camps. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, ordering the warheads to the west coast in 1942, in which Japanese Americans were detained to…

War, President Franklin Roosevelt issued executive order 9066 giving the United States military the power to ban American citizens of Japanese descent from areas they deemed necessary. Soon after that the U.S. military built internment camps for the people of Japanese decent to be held in for the duration of the war. Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry defied the executive order by refusing to leave is home in California, after being convicted he appealed in 1944 and his…

Japanese American’s lives changed in an instant due to a different country's actions. In the middle chapters of When an Emperor Was Divine, it showcases the struggles all families went through when realizing where they will be living until the end of the war. Otsuka highlights the hardships the characters go to through inside and outside of the internment camp, reminding us of the struggles Japanese Americans went through during WWII to overcome the public's trepidation. As the girl and her…

American citizens were uneasy because they believed that the Japanese people in America were behind the attack and that they were going to harm them in their own country. To fix this problem, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 creating Internment camps. Within two months the first internment camp opened and they continued to operate until 1945, nearly two years later. In the Japanese Internment camps, the Japanese Immigrants were kept in the camps by a fence with…

family who inspired many people to never give up in times of crisis; hiding away from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Another true story comes from letters of Japanese American children in the United States’ internment camps during World War II. Some of these children’s letters were gathered and put in the book, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, Louise Owaga writes to Miss Breed about their beautiful journey to…