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Terry Shima, Japanese American Veterans Association director, discusses the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II. Other speakers last week were Mary Tamaki Murakami, Grant Hirabayashi and Joe Ichiuji
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“HEART MOUNTAIN, WYOMING” is one of the pieces in “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps / 1942-46″ at the Benton Museum in Storrs
Artworks Created In Wartime Internment Camps On Display At UConn’s Benton
Ramsay Hishinuma reflected on the time his grandfather Jinjuro Hishinuma spent at the Honouliuli Internment Camp during a forum and gathering yesterday at the Japanese Cultural Center marking the camp’s 65th anniversary.
Former residents of Honouliuli camp have mixed feelings
In 1945, the Allies fully secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.
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Japanese Americans were once forced to move to internment camps in Hawaii in a heavily forested area in Honouliuli Gulch near Kunia. The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii has received permission from the landowner to research the site of a POW and internment camp. Generations have come and gone on this former cattle ranch. Some of cursory look has revealed some history. They found many cement slabs that could have been dated back to the 1944-45 era as well as bottles from that time period. They would get more ideas if they find former internees to help them in their current work. A panel discussion on the research will be held this Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural Center.
On Feb. 19, 1942 the president Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible removal of all Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast
Most of them were born and bought up in America itself then to they were asked to leave their homes. They were sent by train and by truck to 10 remote internment camps across the West. They were provided with Food and shelter, in 2006, President Bush signed a bill authorizing up to $38 million for a grant program devoted to the preservation of the 10 camps.
18 Japanese-American seniors cut their education short to volunteer for World War II. All of them were from Farrington High School. They were the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Their unit would become one of the most decorated in U.S. fighting history. After a long 65 years, The Farrington alumni association organized the gathering as a way to recognize the sacrifice of the veterans and formally welcome them as alums. The three 442nd honorees are: Robert Katayama, Tsuneshi Maruo and Alfred Y. Arakaki.
Feb 19 is the day of remembrance for Japanese Americans as in the year 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and put into motion the government’s forced removal and imprisonment of more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry (60 percent were American citizens). Any individual of Japanese descent was considered to be a national security risk in this period. Japanese were gathered up and ordered to leave their homes they were moved to 10 internment camps spread across some of the nation’s most inhospitable terrains. Click here to read the original article.
Above: U.S. propaganda film about the Japanese internment
You may know the significance of Dec. 7, 1941 — that’s the date when the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, forcing the U.S. into World War II.
It was, as President Roosevelt put it so rightly, “a date which will live in infamy.”
But how about Feb. 19, 1942?
That’s when the same president issued Executive Order 9066, which vested the military with the power to roust more than 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and imprison them in internment camps — 10 in total, spread across some of America’s harshest terrain.
The reason for this? Any American of Japanese descent, in those paranoid times, was a potential spy and a security risk.
In honor of the Day of Remembrance, NPR interviews former detainee Ed Kiyohara, who recounts a time he illegally hitched a ride from his internment camp into town.