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FYI - this movie has never been available to the general public in 35 years, since airing on tv in 1976. It is now available at the "Japanese American National Museum (JANM)" in Los Angeles. The JANM has nogotiated and paid for the rights to the film and will begin selling copies on dvd in Nov, 2011. (Note: Ref from local news paper)
just a couple things,according to the book that appeared different in this video, the supreme court ruled to close the camps BEFORE the war ended, and jeanne visited Manzanar with her *3* kids, twins and her daughter who was 11 at the time.. just to clarify, and thanks, the pictures really helped me visualize what the camp looked like =)
@JoeyFreakRox the relocation camps were run by the war relocation authority a special agency developed for that purpose and shut down after the war. The internment camps were run by the department of justice
"Basic to the Issei ( Japanese immagrants ) concern was the expectation that someday that they would return to japan with their families. japan was still home, America a temporary
residence " they feared their children would not learn good japanese. This quote came from " Nisei " a book written by the Japanese american author Bill Hosokawa and appears on page 158.
The japanese did not come to America
to be citizens but to make money. Their loyalty remained with Japan and the emperor
I read "Farewell to Manzanar" back in the 70's. I also saw a tv movie made about it back in the 70's. Watching the movie, and reading the book made me very humbled. I was only in my pre-teens and had weird feelings, but some type of connection. Maybe about reading the part when they lived on a farm near Watsonville...because that is where i was born/raised/live. Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston lives/lived in Santa Cruz, but never had the honor to meet her. I wish i did.
about how the author's father had a shrine to the emperor of Japan in his living room. When he heard the FBI was looking for him he ran home and dismantled it. I also remember that he kept the family in the camp along time after they were asked to leave and then
only left when the camp was closed. the camps obviously were not as bad as the
While the internment of innocent people was wrong, I must say, my mother used to go play with the Japanese kids at Manzanar all the time. My uncles were guards there, and they abused no one. Manzanar had gardens, rec center, hospital, sports fields, orchards, and many other facilities to make it bearable to those who had to be there. Without consideration for what the Japanese military had done, I make no apologies for what had to be done for the security of our nation in a time of war.
Nice.....coming from someone on the outside. Let's see how you feel if you were put into a prison for 3+ years, had all of your property and possessions taken from you (other than what you could carry), and then sent back home with nothing but what you could carry. Oh, I'm sure the gardens and the rec centers more than made up for that. Please....
What of the treatment of allied prisioners, military and civilian populations? Who had none of these amenities, who were beaten, tortured, starved, force to do hard labor or executed by the japanese. War is full of evil, the people at Manzanar did not have it so bad in reality to the circumstance of being held in a prison camp. America did what had to be done then, in the most humane way they could think of. No shame in that
We don't justify our actions by saying, "Well, it's not as bad as it could have been." I guess slavery was OK because it could have been a lot worse - they could have been in Africa starving.
If we were so concerned about the evils that lurked out there, why did we not also go after the Germans and the Italians? People want to justify their racism however they can but it is what it is....
motts62 there are allot of false statments in your post you should do research before posting this trash. Their properties and possesions were not taken from them. The government took nothing. Those who went to the camps by train or bus were only allowed what they could cary and the rest was either stored for the duration of the war or shipped to the camps once they were settled in. Those who drove their cars could take all they wanted.
Although you are right that some of their possessions were "stored" by the government, a lot of it was stolen, damaged, or lost during the time they were in camps. They could only have so much at their camps since the "houses" they lived in were small, probably smaller than your living room. Many of the landowners/farmers had to sell their land quickly and got paid pennies on the dollar. And the vast majority of the internees did not drive to the camps.
The japanese were paid compensation for losses in 1948 As people were relocated things became less crowded ( 30,000 relocated by 1944 ). I live in a home and I have plenty of furniture in my unit which is probably smaller than your living room. You are right , the majority did not own cars or land they were share croppers and poor or fisherman who lived in shacks on land owned by the fish packing companies.
You don't have to apologize - the U.S. government already did that long ago. If they apologized I guess they are saying it was wrong to do what they did - oh yeah, that is what both Ford and Reagan said. They both said that it was wrong to intern the Japanese during WWII and that it shall never happen again. The legislation that apologized for this even states that the decision was based, in part, on racial prejudice.
The US should not apologize for doing what it had to do to protect the lives of our servicemen from the damage espionage can do. I think you should apologize for your statement that they " had all their posessions and property stolen from them" this is a lie and you should apoligize for it . You have admitted you were wrong but did not apoligize to my country. The U.S. apology came forty years after the fact and at the height of political correctness was pushed thru .
The bill was sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator Alan K. Simpson. Mineta is a Japanese Rep, not a Senator. The bill was signed by Reagan. Another bill to extend the reparations was signed by GHW Bush, which also included another formal apology for the internment of the Japanese. So, there were at least 3 formal apologies, either by presidents or within bills. I hardly think the "height of political correctness" was in the 70's and 80's, either.
the war relocation authority or WRA was a response to the threat of invasion it was approved by FDR in feb. but did not get started for a month or more. The relocation was a response to the threat of invasion of our west coast by the japanese. That is why only west coast Japanese were relocated. There was
no threat of invasion on the East coast
as the German navy had already suffered
heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Navy
before we entered the war. All they had left were U-boats.
Senator Inouye of hawaii claims responsibility. Check his web site. The internment was pre-planned and not a hysterical response.
The threat of invasion required a quick response.The very necessary relocation was rushed but we did the best we could.
These apology bills were pushed thru
by japanese who all stood to gain money
from them. Senator Hayakawa a japanese american from california, were most of the former camp members reside called it a shameful raid on the U.S. treasury .
Once again, if the U.S. did what they "had to do to protect the lives of our servicemen from the damage espionage can do" why did they not go after Germans and Italians (or Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians,, etc.) at the same time?? If you can answer that one question (factually) then I will bow to your supremacy.
First of all you must understand that their were 2 seperate operations. The internment was run by the justice dept.
and began within hours after the pearl harbor attack, and targeted those who we thought to be dangerous. After germany declared war on the U.S. Germans were included. In 1942 more than half of those interned were europeans. The second operation was a relocation which was run by the war relocation authority it started months later and, targeted Japanese living on the west coast.
Reagan , Ford and BUSH hated FDR and would do anything to paint him as a racist, They have been trying to split the black vote from the democrats for years.
A Japanese American man says, "had other Americans had courage to speak out.."(against human injustice),he says Rememberance Day and this Dialogue about violations of human rights would be unnecessary today.I agree about apologizing, but also question how many of the Japanese Americans kept quiet about or justified Japanese invasions,colonialism,and slavery in rest of Asia for half a century before WWII? Are they doing enough today about Japanese Government's Whitewashing of History?
im doin a project on this for 9th grade english and have to write a paper this weekend...but i agreed with roosevelt but now i see the pictures and they make me wanna cry
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LittleLulubee 1 month ago
Jebus any way I can delete that Twilight comment? Dear god I was retarded three years ago. *headdesk*
Tsukassa05 3 months ago
Reading on youtube? That's against the laws of nature.
PoopTruffles 3 months ago
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FYI - this movie has never been available to the general public in 35 years, since airing on tv in 1976. It is now available at the "Japanese American National Museum (JANM)" in Los Angeles. The JANM has nogotiated and paid for the rights to the film and will begin selling copies on dvd in Nov, 2011. (Note: Ref from local news paper)
kikaida395 4 months ago
i think im gonna cry
ellnats 1 year ago
just a couple things,according to the book that appeared different in this video, the supreme court ruled to close the camps BEFORE the war ended, and jeanne visited Manzanar with her *3* kids, twins and her daughter who was 11 at the time.. just to clarify, and thanks, the pictures really helped me visualize what the camp looked like =)
jonasluvrmnm 1 year ago
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SteppinStupidENT 1 year ago
sorry to bug but i need a little help, by any chance does anybody know who was in charge of the camps?
JoeyFreakRox 1 year ago
@JoeyFreakRox the relocation camps were run by the war relocation authority a special agency developed for that purpose and shut down after the war. The internment camps were run by the department of justice
am220uss 1 year ago
i didnt read this book when i was an 8th grader
and now i feel ashamed for not caring since
my family was in Manzanar. i actually went to
Manzanar when i was 10. it saddened me.
im going to read the book & watch the movie.
since my family does not wish to speak about
it like other have. i just want to know what
they had to undeservedly go through
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i have to read this book it sucks dick
ieli100 2 years ago
"Basic to the Issei ( Japanese immagrants ) concern was the expectation that someday that they would return to japan with their families. japan was still home, America a temporary
residence " they feared their children would not learn good japanese. This quote came from " Nisei " a book written by the Japanese american author Bill Hosokawa and appears on page 158.
The japanese did not come to America
to be citizens but to make money. Their loyalty remained with Japan and the emperor
am220uss 2 years ago
"Civilians who find themselves under the authority of the adverse party must be protected`against all acts of violence" from the geneva conventions
How was the US to accomplish this with
out some kind of relocation?
How was the US to d
am220uss 2 years ago
I'm reading the book for a project thing and its so confusing.....
gatorate 2 years ago 2
this book sucked i read it in the 8th grade and it was the most boring book ive read
gladiator2412 3 years ago
I read "Farewell to Manzanar" back in the 70's. I also saw a tv movie made about it back in the 70's. Watching the movie, and reading the book made me very humbled. I was only in my pre-teens and had weird feelings, but some type of connection. Maybe about reading the part when they lived on a farm near Watsonville...because that is where i was born/raised/live. Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston lives/lived in Santa Cruz, but never had the honor to meet her. I wish i did.
nutforcub 3 years ago
I read this book and rember one section
about how the author's father had a shrine to the emperor of Japan in his living room. When he heard the FBI was looking for him he ran home and dismantled it. I also remember that he kept the family in the camp along time after they were asked to leave and then
only left when the camp was closed. the camps obviously were not as bad as the
japanese supporters want you to believe.
am220uss 2 years ago
im on the last chapter of the book. GREAT VID I LOVED IT!
codelode1 3 years ago
wonderful vid! this is a truly great book!teehee<3
ayandaay 3 years ago
i have to do this projec too..and so im looking at sum examples :D do u know where to get any other songs in english?
daotiff55 3 years ago
While the internment of innocent people was wrong, I must say, my mother used to go play with the Japanese kids at Manzanar all the time. My uncles were guards there, and they abused no one. Manzanar had gardens, rec center, hospital, sports fields, orchards, and many other facilities to make it bearable to those who had to be there. Without consideration for what the Japanese military had done, I make no apologies for what had to be done for the security of our nation in a time of war.
TJDOZIER1 3 years ago
Nice.....coming from someone on the outside. Let's see how you feel if you were put into a prison for 3+ years, had all of your property and possessions taken from you (other than what you could carry), and then sent back home with nothing but what you could carry. Oh, I'm sure the gardens and the rec centers more than made up for that. Please....
Motts62 3 years ago
I didnt say it made up for anything,
I said it made it more bearable.
What of the treatment of allied prisioners, military and civilian populations? Who had none of these amenities, who were beaten, tortured, starved, force to do hard labor or executed by the japanese. War is full of evil, the people at Manzanar did not have it so bad in reality to the circumstance of being held in a prison camp. America did what had to be done then, in the most humane way they could think of. No shame in that
TJDOZIER1 3 years ago
We don't justify our actions by saying, "Well, it's not as bad as it could have been." I guess slavery was OK because it could have been a lot worse - they could have been in Africa starving.
If we were so concerned about the evils that lurked out there, why did we not also go after the Germans and the Italians? People want to justify their racism however they can but it is what it is....
Motts62 2 years ago
One more time for people who can't read !
GERMANS AND ITALIANS WERE INTERNED sometimes right next to the Japanese. DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE POSTING.
am220uss 2 years ago
motts62 there are allot of false statments in your post you should do research before posting this trash. Their properties and possesions were not taken from them. The government took nothing. Those who went to the camps by train or bus were only allowed what they could cary and the rest was either stored for the duration of the war or shipped to the camps once they were settled in. Those who drove their cars could take all they wanted.
am220uss 2 years ago
Although you are right that some of their possessions were "stored" by the government, a lot of it was stolen, damaged, or lost during the time they were in camps. They could only have so much at their camps since the "houses" they lived in were small, probably smaller than your living room. Many of the landowners/farmers had to sell their land quickly and got paid pennies on the dollar. And the vast majority of the internees did not drive to the camps.
Motts62 2 years ago
The japanese were paid compensation for losses in 1948 As people were relocated things became less crowded ( 30,000 relocated by 1944 ). I live in a home and I have plenty of furniture in my unit which is probably smaller than your living room. You are right , the majority did not own cars or land they were share croppers and poor or fisherman who lived in shacks on land owned by the fish packing companies.
Conditions in the camps were often better
than they had before the relocation.
am220uss 2 years ago
many japanes believed a rumor that they would all be sent back to Japan and sold their possesions for what ever they could
get but your statment that the U.S. stole
them is a lie that you should apologize
for that.
am220uss 2 years ago
You don't have to apologize - the U.S. government already did that long ago. If they apologized I guess they are saying it was wrong to do what they did - oh yeah, that is what both Ford and Reagan said. They both said that it was wrong to intern the Japanese during WWII and that it shall never happen again. The legislation that apologized for this even states that the decision was based, in part, on racial prejudice.
Motts62 2 years ago
The US should not apologize for doing what it had to do to protect the lives of our servicemen from the damage espionage can do. I think you should apologize for your statement that they " had all their posessions and property stolen from them" this is a lie and you should apoligize for it . You have admitted you were wrong but did not apoligize to my country. The U.S. apology came forty years after the fact and at the height of political correctness was pushed thru .
a japanese senator
am220uss 2 years ago
The bill was sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator Alan K. Simpson. Mineta is a Japanese Rep, not a Senator. The bill was signed by Reagan. Another bill to extend the reparations was signed by GHW Bush, which also included another formal apology for the internment of the Japanese. So, there were at least 3 formal apologies, either by presidents or within bills. I hardly think the "height of political correctness" was in the 70's and 80's, either.
Motts62 2 years ago
the war relocation authority or WRA was a response to the threat of invasion it was approved by FDR in feb. but did not get started for a month or more. The relocation was a response to the threat of invasion of our west coast by the japanese. That is why only west coast Japanese were relocated. There was
no threat of invasion on the East coast
as the German navy had already suffered
heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Navy
before we entered the war. All they had left were U-boats.
am220uss 2 years ago
Senator Inouye of hawaii claims responsibility. Check his web site. The internment was pre-planned and not a hysterical response.
The threat of invasion required a quick response.The very necessary relocation was rushed but we did the best we could.
These apology bills were pushed thru
by japanese who all stood to gain money
from them. Senator Hayakawa a japanese american from california, were most of the former camp members reside called it a shameful raid on the U.S. treasury .
am220uss 2 years ago
Senator Inouye a Japanese american from Hawaii played a large part in pushing it thru the Senate.He says so on his web site.
am220uss 2 years ago
Once again, if the U.S. did what they "had to do to protect the lives of our servicemen from the damage espionage can do" why did they not go after Germans and Italians (or Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians,, etc.) at the same time?? If you can answer that one question (factually) then I will bow to your supremacy.
Motts62 2 years ago
First of all you must understand that their were 2 seperate operations. The internment was run by the justice dept.
and began within hours after the pearl harbor attack, and targeted those who we thought to be dangerous. After germany declared war on the U.S. Germans were included. In 1942 more than half of those interned were europeans. The second operation was a relocation which was run by the war relocation authority it started months later and, targeted Japanese living on the west coast.
am220uss 2 years ago
ONCE AGAIN, Germans and Italians were intern sometimes right next to the Japanese. In 1942 more than half of those interned were Europeans
am220uss 2 years ago
Reagan , Ford and BUSH hated FDR and would do anything to paint him as a racist, They have been trying to split the black vote from the democrats for years.
Dont be so easily duped.
am220uss 2 years ago
A Japanese American man says, "had other Americans had courage to speak out.."(against human injustice),he says Rememberance Day and this Dialogue about violations of human rights would be unnecessary today.I agree about apologizing, but also question how many of the Japanese Americans kept quiet about or justified Japanese invasions,colonialism,and slavery in rest of Asia for half a century before WWII? Are they doing enough today about Japanese Government's Whitewashing of History?
sjwr3 3 years ago
im doin a project on this for 9th grade english and have to write a paper this weekend...but i agreed with roosevelt but now i see the pictures and they make me wanna cry
becocky13 3 years ago
Does anyone know of another family or person that was at Manzanar? I need another oral documentation on it by Monday. Please reply!!!!!
WarriorThirrin 4 years ago
im doing a project on this
swijo 4 years ago
Orly now? =) It was a pretty good book, ne? Not nearly as good as the Twilight series, but that's beside the point... ^^;
Tsukassa05 4 years ago
so do you like the book or not...i personally loved the book and im the only one in 9th grade that did
becocky13 3 years ago
Yeah, I did. It just wasn't the best I've ever read is what I meant.
Tsukassa05 3 years ago
Japanese Americans were bigger then their challenges, bigger people then the American govt. Amazing.. John Louise Polac
1navigator33 4 years ago