ARTICLE: Japanese Americans

[Zero]

The Japanese immigrant experience in Hawaii was quite different from that of the mainland. Driven by similar motivations, usually to make a fortune and return to Japan, both immigrant groups (Issei) diverge and form two distinct identities. Though by the war, the sons and daughters of these immigrants (Nisei), both in Hawaii and the mainland had assimilated U.S. culture, they are not the same.

http://www.webcom.com/akato/hawaii.html

[thomas]

I found this article at ModelMinority.com (http://www.modelminority.com/):

After Years of Revisionist Denial, Japanese American History To Be Given Its Due

=> http://www.modelminority.com/history/manzanar.htm

[thomas]

There's more, with a slightly different perspective

=> http://www.pnorthwestbooks.com/docs/relocation.html

[thomas]

Here's an intersting page provided by the National Archives and Records Administration (http://www.nara.gov/):

Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II

=> http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/relocate.html

[thomas]

Kudos to Gil Asakawa

=> http://nikkeiview.japanreference.com/article.php?ID=44

[Ost Prussia]

Stupid americans!

[irishlight42]

I found this article at ModelMinority.com (http://www.modelminority.com/):
After Years of Revisionist Denial, Japanese American History To Be Given Its Due
=> http://www.modelminority.com/history/manzanar.htm

Good that the place is being opened up in such a way to the public as shown in the article BUT you are at a very large misunderstanding based on this statement.

Americans have long known about the internment of Japanese-Americans, as we in fact knew since the war, except during the war it was looked as a necessity of national security because of propaganda.

This is something that was in my high school, middle school, and EVEN elementary school textbooks! It was also for my father, who is 53 years old.

The injustice of the matter after the war, however, was that it took too long for the U.S. government to give the former internees compensation, and what compensation was given was not very large. However, there are MANY exhibits related to this in MANY museums that date back a ways.

Revisionist denial huh? No, not like the way the very existence of Unit 731 was denied despite substantial evidence until August of 2002. The actual article title, "Japanese American History To Be Given Its Due", is perfectly appropriate. The furthest extent that revisionist history on this matter ever went is the first few years after the war it was looked upon as necessary to national security, but as said both my parents learned about it extensively in school and about the injustice.

Stupid americans!

Please try to stay relevant to the topic as opposed to making blatent stereotypical insults. Yes, Americans are notorious for caring more about stupid celebrities than real news, something which really bothers me among many other people in this country, but please don't make such rude and generalizing statements.

[irishlight42]

The U.S. government besides not doing jack squat for those who were interned during the war, other than indeed seeing to it that their story is heard, is largely to blame for the Japanese revisionist history of things such as Unit 731, as it gave immunity to war criminals such as Shiro Ishii (commander of Unit 731) from war crimes, and then after retrieving the documentation of the camp from Ishii the U.S. government kept much of what it had classified until 2000.

I get rather pissed off about censorship.....

[gaijinalways]

I think the revisonist aspect bothers me more as Japan pushes their version of 'peaceful country'. Though I wish sometimes the US would follow Japan's lead of economic aid and influence rather than militaristic influence.

The right wing movement in Japan is a big supporter and driving force behind the proposed new history books and another reason some Japanese tend to remain in the dark about many international issues.

I have visited Hawaii, and certainly now Japanese-Americans are very prominent in the local business community, certainly not pushed n the background like a certain place I live in.

[sabro]

There is an excellent Japanese American Heritage Museum in downtown Los Angeles and also a really good interpretive display out on Highway 395 at Manzanar. Don't miss them on your visit to California.

[Dogen Z]

If you haven't already seen the Nigahiga Channel on Youtube, you should check this out. It's so funny :p
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHMSE7-oME&feature=related

[Matthew Ota]

The Japanese American community in the USA is undergoing changes that bring to question its viability, as 85% of Nikkei marriages are now interracial.

[Chidoriashi]

OHHHH... another blast from the past with some dead thread revival.

[Dogen Z]

If you haven't already seen the Nigahiga Channel on Youtube, you should check this out. It's so funny :p
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHMSE7-oME&feature=related

Well, this guy is not Nigahiga, but he's still funny. :p And the part about grades applies to Japanese Americans, too, I think.

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