The Importance Of Unfairness In Under The Blood Red Sun

There are many things that happened to Japanese-American immigrants during World War 2 that people in this time period aren’t really familiar with. A story from a Japanese woman, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston, who was born and lived in this era, with help from her husband, James D. Houston, explains and sheds some light during the times where internment camps still prevailed. The writing piece titled “Arrival at Manzanar", takes place during her childhood and the Second World War. In the beginning, Jeanne and her family were living a calm and peaceful life in a predominantly white neighborhood, until disaster struck the world and they were forced to move due to escalating tensions between Japanese Orientals and white Americans. At the time, Japanese-Americans, like Jeanne, were forced to live in an internment camp, which is a prison of sorts, due to the war with Japan. The text is being told through a first person point-of-view in which Jeanne herself tells the story through her experiences during the war. In that story, which contains only a part of the original text, much of the setting took place either prior to and during the time she was sent to the internment camps and describes her struggle with it. This story clearly states the importance of family and perseverance which is shown through her use of pathos, definition, and chronological storytelling.

In the essay “The Scar,” the author Kildare Dobbs reports the parallel stories of Emiko; a young Japanese girl and Captain Robert Lewis; a U.S. army Captain harrowing events of Aug 6/1945 in Hiroshima, a day that forever changed their lives. Emiko, a 15 year old “fragile and vivacious” Japanese girl lived an hour’s train ride away from Hiroshima, in a town called Otake with her parents, her two sisters and brother. At that time, her youngest sister was extremely sick with heart troubles, her 13 year old brother was with the Imperial Army and her father was an antique dealer. Emiko and her 13 year old sister Hideko traveled by train daily to Hiroshima to their women’s college. Captain Robert Lewis was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, a U.S.

Among this group of “Nisei” was the Uchida family from Berkeley, California. Yoshiko Uchida, the youngest daughter in the Uchida family was a senior at the University of California at Berkeley at the time of the attacks. Years later, Yoshiko became a prolific writer of children’s books (Sato 66). In her book, “Desert Exile”, published in 1982, Uchida gave a personal account of the evacuation and incarceration of her family during World War II (Sato 66). Uchida’s book raises awareness to the specter of racial prejudice and the hope that no other group of Americans would have to endure this type of injustice and violation of their human rights (Sato 66).

On December 7,1941 Japan raided the airbases across the islands of Pearl Harbour. The “sneak attack” targeted the United States Navy. It left 2400 army personnel dead and over a thousand Americans wounded. U.S. Navy termed it as “one of the great defining moments in history”1 President Roosevelt called it as “A Day of Infamy”. 2 As this attack shook the nation and the Japanese Americans became the immediate ‘focal point’. At that moment approximately 112,000 Persons of Japanese descent resided in coastal areas of Oregon, Washington and also in California and Arizona.3

The Japanese-American author, Julie Otsuka, wrote the book When the Emperor was Divine. She shares her relative and all Japanese Americans life story while suffering during World War II, in internment camps. She shares with us how her family lived before, during, and after the war. She also shares how the government took away six years of Japanese-American lives, falsely accusing them of helping the enemy. She explains in great detail their lives during the internment camp, the barbed wired fences, the armed guards, and the harsh temperatures. When they returned home from the war they did not know what to believe anymore. Either the Americans, which imprisoned them falsely, or the emperor who they have been told constantly not to believe, for the past six years imprisoned. Japanese-Americans endured a great setback, because of what they experienced being locked away by their own government.

What makes Tomi Nakaji, Tomi Nakaji? Readers of the book “House of the Red Fish” ask the same question throughout the book. This book is written by Graham Salisbury who wrote about a ninth grader named Tomi Nakaji who is living a year after the attack from Japan on Pearl Harbor. In many ways, this experience has changed his life in a number of ways. Without his father who had been arrested because he was a Japanese fisherman who had been out during the attack, he is left to attempt to raise his father’s boat, which had been sunken because of the military. With this task, throughout the book, we get to see how determined, family orientated, and how much of a leader Tomi is.

army arrested other Japanese citizens who were live in Hawaii. According to the book says, it states “For the first time in my life I had bad feelings for Japan, because after they destroyed Pearl Harbor, every Japanese person in Hawaii, U.S. citizen or not, became suspect.” Eventually this Japanese bomb make every japanese citizens who live in Hawaii become harmful life. Also it cause to schooler students force to get insight by U.S. army and government for a long

Most people imagine Hawaii to be paradise. An island Utopia where the rich and upper middle class come on vacation. However just like most places Hawaii has its own share of poverty, economic problems, environmental issues, high crime rate, and high unemployment rates. The Red Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney gives a more realistic and insightful view on what life in Hawaii is like for the Hawaiians. The book was published May 1st, 2014, it is a first-hand account of what life in Hawaii is really like. It tells of the struggles and hardships native Hawaiians have to face just to make a living. It describes the challenges they overcome along with the brave souls who overcome them.

1. How does the author describe racism in America towards Japan in the Second World War?

The novel, Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka tells the story of a group of Japanese picture brides and their life in San Francisco leading up to World War II and the Japanese Internment. While describing the women’s lives leading up to internment, Otsuka makes it apparent that there is a lack of reliable information provided about what is happening. In Lloyd Chiasson’s article, Japanese-American Relocation During World War II: A Study of California Editorial Reactions, three California newspapers’ editorials from 1941 and 1942 are analyzed and reveal a bias towards Japanese-Americans. When compared to Otsuka’s novel, Chiasson’s article reveals that the belittling of the Japanese community

Pearl Harbor which was a military base that was bombed during World War II in Hawaii is now a popular tourist attraction. In this site, there are narratives of innocence, survival and triumph which makes this a prime spot to interact in war drama. Ironically, there are increasingly more Japanese tourists that comes to Pearl Harbor in which Gonzalez says that it brings forth an interesting intersection which was not deliberate at first. Pearl Harbor’s popularity allowed the complex to birth a multicultural narrative by putting focus on the positive aspects of memorialization and visual representation of sacrifice and service while attempting the erasure of imperialism and the violence of war and connivingly replacing it with positive tourism. These tours highlighted the inclusive nuances aimed at the modern, twenty-first century generation sensibility. There was no bad guy good buy but a notion of “everyone can sit at the

In the novel, No-No Boy, John Okada provides an ideological perspective of a young Japanese American during the aftermath of World War II that gives the reader an insight into the racial discrimination towards a race that is rarely acknowledged in United States’ history. The author uses the past of Ichiro to determine the effect it has on his family to guide the story and appeal to the reader’s pathos over a topic that is not widely discussed in modern society. The importance of the past plays a huge role on the decisions and actions the characters take during Post-World War II. The influences his family gives him and the rapid change on how the Japanese descents are viewed by Americans contributes to Ichiro’s decisions and plans for his future. Although Ichiro grew up during a world crisis in which his race was targeted in the United States, he was able to distinguish those that fell into conformity and how he will be able to move on with his life with the limited resources.

The year is 1941. In two continents thousands of miles away, superpowers, both politically and precisely ply weapons as totalitarianism and nationalism delights in an amelioration never before seen in the history of mankind. Here you are, marooned on a rock in the Pacific, suspended between the East and the West betwixt thousands of miles of water, unknown to you that it would be men of your very same ancestry, not the mechanized, human corollary of National Socialism in Europe as you expected that would be flying bombers 500 feet above your home, letting loose their meteoric cargo over your heart while doing so.. This is the story of Tomi, a young boy of Japanese descent living on Hawaii during the events of the Second World War. With the

Throughout “Hiroshima” by John Heresy, the readers are gradually exposed to Japanese culture through each of the six survivors, regardless of the survivors' nationality, as they stitch their lives back together after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 9, 1945. Japanese-style hospitals are quite different in comparison to other hospitals, gradually reforming through the book. As a Japanese, you were happy to die for your Emperor and country as shown in Tanimoto's letter to an American and in the survivors. Japanese had a resistance toward foreigners due to the war, however, after the bombing, the Japanese accepted those they rejected. Through these Japanese customs, the audience gains further understanding of the influence the

This novel brings in many themes, including racism, death, and growing up. The family is Japanese-American and they are discriminated against throughout the course of the novel. For example, when they move to Georgia, they have an incident with a woman in a hotel. On page 27, it states “She moved her mouth from the phone and said to my father, “Indians stay in the back rooms”…”We are not Indian,” Katie says.”Mexicans, too”…”We are not Mexican,” Katie says.”Hold on a second, Hon.” She set the receiver down and turned her focus on me. I took hold of my fathers hand. “Young