Showing posts with label Japanese-American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese-American history. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014

Reparations and Apologies

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Is there any way we can make up for what we did to our fellow Americans during World War II? Even if we reimbursed them for their financ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Everything Was Gone

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Beginning on December 17, 1944, the Japanese Americans were allowed to return to their homes and businesses on the West Coast. The war ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Barbed Wire and Deserts

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After spending several months in the temporary camps, the Japanese Americans were sent to more permanent “relocation centers.” There wer...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Home is a Horse Stall

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 General DeWitt initially favored a “voluntary” removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. It was only voluntary in the sense...
Monday, March 3, 2014

The Power of Words

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Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Of course it would. But if somebody handed you something that looked like a rose and c...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Shikata Ga Nai

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General DeWitt issued Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 on March 24, 1942, followed in quick succession by Civilian Exclusion Orders 2 thro...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Betrayed by Their Country

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February 19, 1942 was an evil day for America. That’s the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. But le...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Guilty by Association

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Hopefully everyone who reads this blog knows what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Japanese-Americans were as shocked and a...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Second-Class Citizens

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I am currently researching a historical middle-grade novel based on the Japanese-American incarceration during World War II, and I belie...