And so, we are given a short history about the arrival of the Japanese their willingness to take any kind of work when they first arrived here how they saved their money and how they were eventually able to afford their piece of the American Dream.īut they looked different, their language was different, their religion and culture were different and so they faced anti-Japanese signs and sentiments all over the West Coast. And, as Martin Sandler shows in his newest nonfiction book, Imprisoned, it is especially ironic that while we were fighting a war to save democracy, we had no compunction about taking it away was a whole section of American society by placing them in internments camps scattered throughout the US, located out in the middle of nowhere.īut, as Sandler points out, fear and mistrust of Japanese immigrants to the US didn't begin with World War II. The story of what happened to Japanese Americans shortly after the United States entered World War II never ceases to stun me.
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