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WRITTEN BY KOICHI
In high school, all of us young'uns had to do a Senior Report, of sorts. Now, whenever I do essays / reports / etc, and I have the opportunity to write about whatever I want (bad idea, teachers), I like to choose a topic that almost nobody else has studied, so the professor cant check my facts. Im not saying that I go around making stuff up, but I feel a little better when Im not writing on something within the teachers field of expertise. It, how should I say, often results in a higher, how should I call it, grade.
Of course, as you can tell by the title, I decided to study Japanese internment. More specifically, how it affected Hawaii.
If you dont know already, Hawaiis population includes tons of Japanese. Im not just talking tourists in khaki shorts with cameras around their necks. Back during the war, Hawaiis population was 1/3 Japanese. Thats huge. 157,000 Japanese made their home on the islands. In contrast, the United States mainland only had around 126,000 Japanese. 100,000 of those 126,000 were put in internment camps. Thats a lot of people being put away for no reason.
Now, as you probably learned in history class (if youre an American, at least), All Japanese were put in internment camps. That is, at least, what we are led to believe. The history books tend to gloss over Hawaii, though. What happened to people over there?
Well, not that much.
more...
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-in-hawaii-wwii/
The internment camp held 320 internees and also became the largest prisoner of war camp in Hawaii with nearly 4,000 individuals being held. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honouliuli_Internment_Camp
underpants
(182,878 posts)Thanks for posting this
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Koreans and Taiwanese held as well, how strange.
GP6971
(31,205 posts)in college whose dissertation for his doctorate was about 15th century Irish door knobs. Who could challenge that? BTW, he was a jerk.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)In college one of my professors was doing his one something equaly obscure and he said that you have to focus on the small stuff because the big things have been taken. As he said, how many more books can be written about Hitler?
GP6971
(31,205 posts)My niece got her doctorate about colonial US. Her dissertation covered the period prior to the French and Indian Wars. Not a whole lot of information of the era is out there.
Kath2
(3,089 posts)And what Trump supports today is just as bad, if not worse.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)I keep hoping we're getting better, but look who's president. Many people today who are shocked over the internment of American citizens, would do the same thing all over again.