Japanese writing system

December 7th, 1941 at 7:48 a.m, Pearl Harbour was bombarded by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers that killed 2,403 people and destroyed nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. Prime Minister of Canada, Mackenzie King, decided to intern Japanese Canadian citizens based on speculative evidence. Both the RCMP and the Defence Department lacked proof of any…

immigrants. Previously, I had not known that many of the Asian immigrants has actually considered themselves “American” and were willing to denounce their home country. Lee explained this well in her section about Japanese immigrants. In this section, she discusses how far the Japanese Americans were willing to go to prove that they were, in fact, American. This includes being obedient to the government’s wishes, prospering in the conditions that they were put into, and even joining U.S. army in…

justified in sending Japanese residents to Manzanar and other camps like it? Yes, the U.S. was at war with Japan and they had to take precautions because they were worried that the Japanese would interfere with the war. The treatment the Japanese had at the camps is not justified though, they lived in humiliation and poor living conditions. Also it was wrong for the U.S. to hold the loyal Japanese citizens against their will. Of course the U.S. would be justified to hold Japanese residents in…

if I was a convict who is not allowed to see anyone. I’d much rather sleep in the Santa Anita horse stables — this has made me realize how fortunate I was to be able to live in Santa Anita” (Oppenheim 412). When you are in a crisis — such as the Japanese internment…

The most significant issue of bias that I noticed after reading the Japanese Internment primary sources from the newspapers was the fact that prejudice and fear consumed the American people. People of Japanese ancestry were hated and feared due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Propaganda is a powerful biased communication that helps sway people’s beliefs and opinions. In World War II anti-Japanese posters were designed to increase support for the war by creating hatred for the enemy. It didn’t…

insanity (Japanese Treatment of World War II). Throughout one of the camps in Japan there laid a famous Olympic distance runner, Louie Zamperini. He was in a prison camp due to his plane crashing down into the Pacific Ocean. Even though a few of his partners along with him were not lucky enough to survive the crash, the surviving partners were not lucky enough to be safe from the Japanese. Louie and Phil which survived the journey that the raft took them through were captured by a Japanese Navy…

When looking at the benefits of giving reparation to individuals, there is no benefit seen. Over the years, educational opportunities have gotten better. Statistics show that the rate of African Americans getting a degree has improved. The “US bureau of labor statistics” shows that in 1992 only 16% of African Americans had a bachelor degree and that in 2009 it increased to 24%. Giving money to certain individuals will not help close the gap between black and whites education. Giving money to one…

problems. Even though it seems simple, it is not the easiest thing to accomplish. This method is positivity. Throughout history, a positive attitude has proven to solve or at least help people get through rough times. For example during the time of Japanese American Internment camps, hundreds of thousands of American citizens were removed from their…

1942: The Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt…

exploits minority groups for its economic advantage. Using the video about internment camps that was a part of our chapter 9 module, a functionalist would argue that the US government made the video as propaganda in order to convince the public that the Japanese people in the internment camps were happy and furthermore even helping make supplies for the war. Using analysis, one could start by questioning whether this was true. I would argue that it is highly unlikely the people in the internment…