Manzanar

Thanks to Mike Shinoda of Fort Minor and Linkin Park for the song. I dedicate this to the wonderful Amy, for her help in this! Hearts to her.

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• Japanese
• Internment
• Camp
• Camps
• Kenji
• Fort
• Minor
• WWII
• injustice
• Manzanar

[sjwr3]

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?

[wytbyt]

Right or wrong in the issue of interning (imprisoning) innocent American citizens is completely separate and has nothing to do with Imperial Japan or the modern Japanese society. Just because Japan committed abuses in its colonies does not mean AMERICAN citizens of Japanese ancestry are to hold to blame. The point of this video is to show the horror of internment and, hopefully, cause you to realize exactly how unjust internment is--whether in Guantanamo, CIA camps, or WW II.

I'll bite though

[wytbyt]

The Japanese were horrible. The Rape of Nanking, the treatment of PoWs, the general abuse enacted upon native populations. All horrible, but perfectly in line with imperialism.

Look at the United States in the Phillipines, the Spanish, the Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, the British in various colonies, or even the Opium Wars as a whole.

"White man's burden" is what Rudyard Kipling called it.

[wytbyt]

of course, traditional imperialism, outside of the modern era, shares similar markers.

Tamerlane? Genghis Khan? Rome? Greece?

Slavery, massacres, and a general bloody and abhorrent history marks imperialistic expansionism.

not to rationalize the actions of the Japanese, the history of the world is like... that. To single out one culture or people is naive. We share this legacy as a human race.

[wytbyt]

And as a human race, it is our responsibility to end this legacy, to do our part to ensure it stops with us.

Can we?

[HistoryStudent123]

And, of course, the MAGIC intercepts. Here's an excerpt of one from the L.A. Japanese Consul to Tokyo on May 9, 1941: "We have already established contacts with absolutely reliable Japanese in the San Pedro and San Diego area who will keep a close watch on the shipments of airplanes and other war materials...We shall maintain connection with our second generations (Nisei)...working in airplane plants for intelligence purposes."

[HistoryStudent123]

Approximately two-thirds of the ADULTS among those evacuated were Japanese nationals--enemy aliens. The vast majority of evacuated Japanese-Americans (U.S. citizens) were children at the time. Their average age was only 15 years. In addition, over 90% of Japanese-Americans over age 17 were also citizens of Japan (dual citizens)under Japanese law. Thousands had been educated in Japan. Some having returned to the U.S. holding reserve rank in the Japanese armed forces.

[HistoryStudent123]

U.S.Army MID Information Bulletin No.6 of Jan.21, 1942,titled "Japanese Espionage," forwarded to Ass't SecWar John J. McCloy by Brig. General Mark J. Clark,then Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S.Army, which, among its conclusions states: "Their espionage net containing Japanese aliens, first and second generation Japanese and other nationals is now thoroughly organized and working underground."

[Recusal]

YEAH, "PLENTY". You're really, really uninformed.

[Recusal]

HISTORYSTUDENT123 is obviously still a student of history because the FBI, the War Department and the President's own investigative team found that there was no military threat by these Japanese, over 60% of which were born in AMERICA. Get your fucking facts straight and stop trying to defend white supremacist ideology that clearly violated Japanese American civil and constitutional rights via internment. "Plenty" of disloyalty my ass! Get back to the books, motherfucker.

[HistoryStudent123]

The 1988 bill and the commission was political. Japanese were evacuated off the West Coast becuase of evidence of fifth column activites, none that was found amongst the Germans or Italians. In fact these groups aided the government in weeding out disloyals while the Japanese refused to do so.

As for Hawaii is was impossible to evacuate 40% of the population or the goverment would have.

[HistoryStudent123]

Germans and Italians were interned. As for the West Coast there was no evidence of disloyalty from Germans or Italians and plenty from Japanese.

[rofotografo]

Do you know what? The most important thing is that the "japs" have always kept the honor, goodness and inteligence, even in the worst moments and I've never heard about Revolution coming from my "japs" good friends, but I have heard a lot about Evolution from them , evolution.

I'm happy that the bad times have finished for ever.

My best regards,

Beto

[Rue400]

I find it disgusting that people today are saying it was ok to intern people in camps. It just shows how easy us Amricans are willing to give up our freedoms during times of war. These people were not in Pearl Harbor. All i hear is, " but they could have been sympathetic to the Japanese". If we use that kind of logic why were Germans and Italians not interned, were they not our enemies.I think it had to do with racism. INTERMENT like this is NEVER just. I can see this happening today...

[TJDOZIER1]

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, they abused no one. 2 of my cousins still live in housing removed from Manzanar after the war. Manzanar had gardens, rec center, hospital, sports fields, orchards, and many other facilities to make it bearable to those who had to be there. I make no apologies for what had to be done for the security of our nation in a time of war.