Canadian Japanese Internment Camps

[Henababe]

Does anyone else find it disgustingly racists when someone uses the word 'Jap'.

[stolenducks]

do any of you know what happened to the Japanese Canadians who died in internment camps? Like were their bodies burned, or burried? [ for an assignment ]

[crook561]

so sad i cant believe we did this to the japs. ;(

[oppa1987]

@crook561 Japs is a derogatory term.

[71021015]

Japan made this situation...it was japan's gorverment's fault!!!

don't beg anymore....never pity...

[xj85]

Don't beg for a sympathy here.. Common.. Jap did commit the worst massacre in Korea and China during the World War II. They abducted young Korean girls and made them as a war prostitutes. Japanese treated unfairly in Canada? lol Dogs will laugh at Japanese begging sympathy from Caucasians. Please stop fabricating history and have some GUT to ADMIT own history.... A big shame on Japanese government for teaching a fairy tale instead of history.

[sjaydub7]

@xj85 yeah but the Japenese who were living in Canada didn't participate in the massacre...plus your saying that we as Caucasions shouldn't sympathize for people of another ethnicity when they suffer since other members of their ethnicity committed horrible crimes? Africans, Asians, and Native people must never feel sorry for us then...Caucasions don't exactly have a clean history....

[kookiezMILK]

@xj85 Yea, Japanese people IN japan did THAT. The Japanese in North America were innocent. They were treated wrong for crimes they did not commit. And that's wrong. Yeah, the government probably was fearful, but that's no excuse for the terrible conditions they lived in. Do you realize that Japanese Canadians lost their heritage after this because they were so afraid to be Japanese. They wanted to assimilate because of fear. The actions of North American leaders did this.

[jacob7207]

Canada got in on the action as well? I can't wait to tell my Canadian friends next time they bitch to me about how America is oppressive.

[getagripcanada]

@jacob7207 Look into what was done to the first nations people and the residential schools.....it makes this look like a joke.

[ikeones]

@jacob7207 America had Japanese internment camps as well. all so in the 1930 the U.S.A. had Forced Sterilization for the mentally retarded, mentally ill, the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, physically deformed, Native Americans, as well as black women. So dont bitch at your Canadian friends too bad

[infiniLor]

@ikeones Canada was in on all of that as well, so feel free...

[kookiezMILK]

@jacob7207

LOL. Yeah, Canada joined. It wasn't just America. But before you go all bragging, the Japanese were treated worse in America than in Canada....

[poephol1994]

@sjaydub7 Thank you so much please tell me when you find it it will make my history project amazing. I owe you one man.

[henerymag]

It's easy now to look back and say how terrible it was to do this. Most of us didn't live in those times. The Canadian govt has apologized, China and Korea is still waiting for an apology from Japan for atrocities, and POW's should get one too. I'm not saying internment was right, but why do we always have to be the villain's

[kookiezMILK]

@henerymag

Canada isn't always the villains. But we aren't exactly always the good guys either. Like most conflicts, everyone had a part in being wrong. But, what many don't realize is that apologies don't fix anything. They are words that say you recognize your wrong, but it doesn't change the pain. It doesn't change the fact that Japanese Canadians lost their heritage because of this event.

[poephol1994]

Hello I would like to use your video in a movie for my history project. I would like to use a certain part in your video and it would be awesome if i can use your video. If you are willing to let me use it please comment back.

[poephol1994]

Hello I am interested in using your video in a movie i have to make for my history project. Would you be willing to let me use it. If you are please email me the video

[itsJonasBrotherlove]

hey nice video :)

btw what backround music is that ?

could you please tell me the name thanks !

[Dom5342]

@itsJonasBrotherlove

its called 9 crimes by damien rice

[sjaydub7]

@itsJonasBrotherlove the first song is Gong by Sigur Ros, the next instrumental was a track off of Remember the Titians, and the last song was 9 Crimes by Damien Rice

[qwerty3008]

What are you talking about? I never said Canada was racist.

[sjaydub7]

not you the other guy. i didnt mean to reply to you

[ROFLWOFFL]

Woohoo, I go to Rundle!

[vladtepesblogdotcom]

I wonder how many Canadians lived n Japan at the time. What's that? None you say? The Japanese where so and remain so racist that no non ethnic Japanese are allowed to be citizens of Japan? and what's that? A dozen cities where firebombed to ashes and the Japanese where warned with pamphlets for weeks before the A bomb was dropped and they still would not surrender after trying to take over the world like Hitler? I think internment was a doddle. Read history.

[yurgy1]

vlatepesblogdotcom, canada really covered itself in glory interning japanese and ukranian canadians, also stopping all jewish immigration early 1935 even sending vessles full of jews back to germany, the USA is considered guilty of war-crimes by the Intl.Court in La Haie NL, for the bombing of 1,7 millions Laotian and Vietnamese civilians mostly rice-farmers, so much about the Japanese bombing a naval base and the US bombing civilians, the victor is always right

[mikesdjftr]

you have the wrong point of view. i bet you know nothing of the bomb being dropped. you see thigns 1 way

[vladtepesblogdotcom]

Here is what I do know. ONLY West Europe and North America care about racism and injustice. Everywhere else, its policy. If Japanese people want to sue for internment, then let Japan invite a few million Muslims to live in their country. We shall see how multi-cultural, tolerant and so on they are.

[mikesdjftr]

wtf are you talking about. your not making any sense. that has notyhing to do with what i just said

[SuperBoomstick]

the wrong point of view?

thats the most retarded comment i've ever seen. i have lost hope in humanity.

[mikesdjftr]

What, because i said you see things black and white? You probably do

[SuperBoomstick]

No, because there is no such thing as a wrong point of view, only a different point of view.

[mikesdjftr]

got me there. you know what i mean though

[SuperBoomstick]

what i think you mean is "I'm looking at this from a different point of view than you".

[mikesdjftr]

no.

[SuperBoomstick]

then enlighten me on what you're trying to say.

[mikesdjftr]

I just don't remember what you origninally said. So do you justify the bomb, or not justify the bomb? Justify the camps, or nt justify the camps... I cant remember

[SuperBoomstick]

I wasn't the guy you were talking to earlier. my first comment to you was about losing hope in humanity.

I absolutely do not justify the dropping of the bomb, i'm only showing that it wasn't only America's fault. all's fair in love and war.

You also have to know that the government put them in camps to protect them from the angry public, and they didn't want to spend a lot of money giving them luxuries there (fighting a war). they could have done better though.

[mikesdjftr]

I don't beleive the main reason was to protect them from the public but I know it was a contributer. Yes, it's sad.

[ermazon]

Good video, nice job.

[SaiyanPrince339]

Stop whining and get of welfare. :p

[sonucoolkid]

What the hell do you mean by that?

P.S. Learn to spell

[SaiyanPrince339]

i wrote it for teh lulz

[TwilightDiva]

Where did you get the clips from that weren't Memoirs of a Geisha?

[mchobo12]

Wow I thought only America did that well I was surprised when I heard of this.

[cory1246]

am i right in thinking this we done by the orders of the british government

[kyle887923]

noo

[Bleachnote692]

poor Japanese

[GBONE9]

JAPANESE started war in asia not Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-americans, This is sad

[LeJisemika]

Hey that's meories (sp) of a geshia! I love that movie :)

[kwulf14]

the americans should be the ones to think about cause there were so many deaths at pearl harbor.... this makes me fucking mad.... no one understands how the americans felt during that day.... im american and i believe that the japanese deserved what they got. and plus we got them back by bombing japan........ how does that make u feel japan????

[cory1246]

evil is not combated by more evils

[FireNationDeathWish]

you realize that out of the Japanese interned, there was only very few sympathizers to the Japanese government. Many Japanese-Americans interned were willing to fight with the American military against the Axis. Now yes, the Japanese did real crooked things to the Chinese in Nanjing and occupied other Asian nations, but the Japanese government was a dictatorship with the emperor a puppet to his own military...while the US is a republic and yet imprisons whole groups of people...that is sad.

[am220uss]

Over 20,000 requests to be repatritated to

Japan and give up their american citizenship were received from the camps.

Is that your definition of a very few sympathizers?

[lilyssaSM]

(response to kwulf14)

okay so Pearl Harbour was, indeed, not a great event. But you have to understand that these people were completely innocent and did absolutely nothing except BE OF JAPANESE DESCENT. they were NOT a part of the decision made by the Japanese government.

and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in not only over 100,000 deaths but generations of deaths afterward. How the fuck is that justified by "[getting] them back" for Pearl Harbour? that's ridiculous.

[hp99999]

yea it is readiculous but the American Goverment told the Japenese to surrender or the first bomb on hiroshima would be dropped, it was the subberness of the jappenese military code that dying is more respected that living that this occured

[dowdicus]

Weren't the Japanese already prepared to surrender? The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were basically a demonstration for the Russians.

[hp99999]

nope it was their policy to die in war rather than to live and at that point the usa an soviet union were allies in ww2 wasn't until 1960ish that the cold war started to brew

[SuperBoomstick]

just for the record you're wrong. the cold war started directly after world war 2.

[sjaydub7]

yeah the arms race between the USSR and America started right after the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...hence the beginning of the Cold War.

[the1994african]

@lilyssaSM Americans weren't trying to "get Japan back for Pearl Harbor"; rather, they were trying to end the war. Also, America did not know of the after effects of the two atomic bombs, i.e. radiation sickness. As I said, America wanted to end the war because Japan didn't want to come to war. So we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were near military bases.

[kookiezMILK]

@the1994african

you are absolutely right. America didn't know the impact of the bombs. America just wanted the war to be finished. Remember, America didn't want to take part in any conflicts concerning outside countries. The only reason why America joined was because they were directly attacked. So, it's only natural that they wanted the war done with quickly and dropped some bombs. They didn't realize the huge impact.

[aadams990]

Ignorance is the biggest threat to freedom. I am a very Proud Canadian, but this is a major part of our history I can't quite understand.

[yaknbo]

Well, Aadams, try being an American and at the mercy of the ignorance that allows people to go around and think reflexively one way about Americans and another about Canadians. You didn't have ONE Japanese Internment

Camp. You had about 6.

[Jami09]

Canada isn't like this now.. Only during the war time due to our partner ship with Britain and the US. If you are going to disrespect Canada just because of the internment camps get your facts straight and think about that war in the US that is currently going on right now. And just think about what the Americans do to the middle easterns at the airports and in thier own countries.

[anticollision2]

Canada is the worst racist land toward the "japs" isn't it? Especially Vancouver. It's even far more racist than California. I heard that many "japs" were killed by the forced labor. White Canadians are really scary. Vancouver is the worst place to step on for the "japs".

[qwerty3008]

You obviously don't know anything about present day Canada. The Canadian people and government have appologized for the past. I have many Japanese and Chinese friends living in Canada, including Vancouver. They absolutely love it. They have never had any negative comments towards them. We can't go back in time to fix what has been done. All we can do is work towards a better future. More than I can say about Zimbabwe. If that is where you actually live.

[kookiezMILK]

@qwerty3008 I get where you are coming from, but apologies don't fix everything. It doesn't fix the fact that many Japanese Canadians abandoned their culture in fear. They married Caucasians and most Japanese I know who have generation of Canadian heritage know nothing about their culture or language because of this even.

Yeah, we need to work towards a better future, but we can't forget the past. Else, this might happen again.

[flo001]

What?

Some of those people aren't even Japanese! There's one korean actress and one Chinese actress in this video.

Ok for a video project, but get the cultures straight.

[sjaydub7]

lmao. well I took the footage from a japanese movie. So thats not my fault. A korean must be acting as a Japanese. Its not big deal...Americans act as Africans, Italians, Greeks, British, French etc. in hollywood all the time. and vice versa

[DinoDom26]

beautiful vid, my family went through the camps. Very well done if you made this.