A Nisei Story

[xelanesqueHQ]

Hey, what do you call a SIXTH generation Japanese American? Fourth is called Yonsei, fifth Gonsei, whatbout sixth?

[lacesoutdain]

another grandchild yesterday

[daniyellowjello]

I'm a gosei and my family were all coffee farmers...but we were lucky enough to be living in Hawaii

I'm so sorry for all the people who went through this

But I feel even worse for the disgusting people who let this happen and who still express racism, because theyr'e all going to get what's coming to them!

[Watercolors250]

Touching story. I'm an American Sansei, but my grandmother did not go through the intournment experience as she was a warbride brought to america after world war II by my grandfather. Still hits pretty close to home though.

[stevelau1933]

99 nen no ai japanese american.......got a drama out on this

[1982circaguy]

I hope this never happens again, if it does they will have to pry my gun out my dead cold hands before I go to any camp!

[yesitisthere]

Japanese were too nice and are still to nice and allow Koreans to use and abuse them. Japan should have turned Korea into a pile of rubble for their atrocious, massacring, sneaky, malicious ways

[ilovejapan888]

@yesitisthere i love japan

[yesitisthere]

Koreans are joined the mongols, used them to exploit other nations, massacring chinese, vietnamese, Middle Eastern people, Japanese, and eastern europeans.

Now to take the spot light off of Korea's atrocious history they go around every where Japanese are a sabatoge and put down Japanese to cover their own malicious, hateful nature

[am220uss]

yesitisthere - says that there was a mongel /korean invasion of Japan between 1870

and 1940 and this justifies the korean comfort women and the many other horrible things the japanese did during their occupation of korea . I have never heard of such an invasion. This is a lie. this poster gets a idiots degree in false history.

[yesitisthere]

@am220uss

@am220uss

False history? That is hilarious and flat out projection. All other Asian nations claim Korea to make up false histories, all koreans do is keep making up false history and then throwing it back in the faces of other nations.

Koreans committed horrendous atrocities to many nations, but Japan and Vietnam remember those atrocities the best.

Korea help mongols invade Vietnam three times, and korea committed brutal acts against the vietnamese during the vietnam war.

[51tlsxv3st]

NISEI SOLDIERS

[am220uss]

The woman in this film was a child and had no property. She fails to mention if her father was a U.S. citizen or a Japanese citizen and admits her father came to the U.S. just to get rich and return to Japan. He did not come here

to be an American. She never discusses

compensation paid in 1948. He was Japanese, an enemy alien. Americans held by japan have never received compensation. He was a tenant farmer

and did not own the land. How about the millions drafted and what they lost.

[astralaris]

Corrected Post: Get YOUR facts straight. The ISSEI or 1st gen. could NOT become US citizens by LAW. However, this woman and 2/3 of all internees WERE Amer. citizens loyal to the US - NOT POWs - quite diff. from ex., you gave. The comp. enmass was not paid until the 80's and was a paltry $20,000. You also forget that many Japanese served w/ distinction FOR the US in WW2. You confuse the "enemy" w/ people who are the same race/look like the enemy.

[am220uss]

The U.S. then or now is not obligated to give citizenship to anybody. Right on this site there are japanese men telling how they got here illeagly. Compensation was paid in 1948 to those who lost and deserved it , In 1980 even those born in the camps got $20,000 while the germans and italians got nothing but i guess you think compensation enmass to Japaneseis is all that counts.

The Japanese have never.compensated anybody why don't you mention that.

Also how about the 10 million drafted.

[yesitisthere]

@am220uss

Koreans Invaded Japan twice with the mongols. Raping, torturing, and lancing women and children on poles while still alive - like living scarecrows. They nailed men, women and children - alive on their ships as they moved from lower Japan upward.

Most of the troops were Korean, about 100,000 or more. The term "Kamikaze" came from the storm that came as Samurai held the mongol/koreans offshore.

So to compare Japan's predicament and this one is ludicrous.

But I get your point.

[yesitisthere]

@am220uss

It is not that far back. Korean/Mongol invasion where they massacred, raped, and tortured men, women, and children- impaling them on poles and show casing them as standards and nailing them alive to their ships was about as far back as WWII is to this present day.

Korean/Mongol hordes introduced Japan to dishonorable, brutal, and heinous warfare. That would be hard pressed to forget.

[yesitisthere]

@am220uss

As for comfort women, you mean prostitutes right? You are saying no other nations army that had a prostitution problem? Im not saying these women are bad, nor do I condone prostitution, but this is what it is its not forced slavery, its prostitution.

These women who have been compensated continue to ask for more money from Japan. Like I said if Japan did to Korea what Koreans did to Japan in histories past, there would Korea should be a pile of rubble, but Japan annexed instead

[am220uss]

@yesitisthere - You call them prostitutes ??? This is just more denial by a japanese supporter. Even a prostitute can quit when she wants to do so, these women had no choice, that is the difference. A prostitute can say how many coustomers she takes a day. They were not prostitutes but women selected and taken into slavery by force.

You should be ashamed of yourself. They were also transported into war zones without their consent ,putting them in harms way.

[am220uss]

@astralaris - You get your facts straight, by U.S. law 43000 to 47000 adults interned were citizens of japan, and therefore enemy aliens. Were we to allow them to roam freely on our west coast which was considered a war zone? If you go by japanese law they were all enemy aliens and citizens of Japan. Japan interned american civilians they held in the Philippines.

[catiano0528]

great source. thank you for sharing.

[suboken]

Thanks for sharing this.

[savoytruffle4]

thank you.