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Anti-Americanism
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Axis powers
Balilla
Bataan Death March
Bill Hosokawa
Black Tom explosion
Camp Savage
Carey McWilliams (journalist)
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Clement J. Zablocki
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Community council
Conscription
Demobilization
Douglas MacArthur
Draft evasion
Eighth Route Army
Enemy alien
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Executive Order 9066
Friends of New Germany
General Assistance
German American Bund
Housing authority
Immigration Act of 1924
Imperial Japanese Navy
Infanticide
Internment
Internment of Japanese Americans
Japan-United States relations
Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Japanese American Citizens League
Japanese Americans
Japanese diaspora
Japanese language
Japanese-Canadian internment
John L. DeWitt
Karl Yoneda
Kibei
Legion of Honour
Manzanar
Michi Weglyn
Military Intelligence Service (United States)
National Congress of American Indians
National security
New Laws
Newspaper
Nisei
Nomura
Occupation of Japan
Ostracism
Permanent Settlement
Prisoner of war
Racism
Russo-Japanese War
Selective Service System
Sitdown strike
Smith Act
Special Tasks
Surrender of Japan
Togo Tanaka
Utah
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War effort
War Relocation Authority
Warfare
Western Defense Command
Works Progress Administration
World War II
Yuji Ichioka
Product details
- ISBN 9780691138237
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps. His conclusion: the motives of government officials and top military brass likely transcended the standard explanations of racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision, Hayashi writes, were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan. What was the long-term impact of America's actions? While many historians have explored that question, Hayashi takes a fresh look at how U.S. concentration camps affected not only their victims and American civil liberties, but also people living in locations as diverse as American Indian reservations and northeast Thailand.
Brian Masaru Hayashi is Associate Professor of Human Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, and author of "For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942".
