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On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Navy bombed and ultimately destroyed the United States Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This sneak attack by the Japanese bombers drug the United States into WWII. The attack caused panic and hysteria throughout the United States, because this was the first attack against Americans, and on their own soil. Following the attack, about 1,500 Japanese suspects were gathered by American security to be arrested. Pressure from anti-Japanese media propaganda, local patriotic

From the Savior, to the Enemy. Beginning with a memory, Farewell to Manzanar is an autobiographical memoir of Jeanne Houston’s experience in an internment camp for the Japanese during WWII. On December 7, 1941, in Long Beach, California, Jeanne’s family is shocked by the reports of Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. FBI agents accuse Ko, Jeanne’s father, of being a Japanese spy because of oil deliveries made with Japanese submarines. Ko is arrested and is dragged from his house in between two FBI agents’

World War II dramatically altered everyday life in the United States. Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 1941. The day after the attack, Great Britain and the United States declared war on Japan and two days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. During the course of the war, food, gas and clothing were rationed and the search for scrap metal to build armaments became an increasing need. Because the men were now sent to war, women were forced

Extra Credit Assignment: Japanese American Museum On my visit to the Japanese American Museum I learned plenty of History from a culture that I would have never pictured myself going into depth with. I learned of the roots of the Japanese, religion, and injustices that they faced throughout decades. Within all this I also learned what was the communities way of communication. To begin with, the growing root for Japanese American communities was from 1908-1924. In Hawaii plantation owners thought

Cannibalism generally connotes savagery, devouring a fellow human is, since the enlightened period, looked down upon. In fact, the Enlightenment period was obsessed with the “self-abhorring… figure of the cannibal” (Cottom 2001). However, the modern cannibal is drastically different from the cannibals from the past. Cannibalism has evolved from a cultural norm in prehistoric history, to medicinal use in the middle ages to finally sexual cannibalism in the present. One of the most famous cases of

The Author Pamela Rotner Sakamoto is the author of the book Midnight in Broad Daylight, with her first edition published on January 5, 2016. Sakamoto is an American historian and speaks fluent Japanese and while she lived in Japan in Kyoto and Tokyo for seventeen years, Sakamoto worked as a consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. focusing on Japanese-related projects. She has also taught at the University of Hawaii system. Attracted by the artistic culture

Texas, Montana, etc. Anti-Japanese feelings became stronger as the United States entered World War II. This led to the United States Treasury freezing bank accounts to any person born in Japan. In addition, a curfew was placed on both Nissei and Issei Japanese people. Surprise searches/seizures were conducted in Japanese communities. US officials would take any electronics such as cameras and radios that could possibly communicate with Japan. In order to make people feel safer and prevent any possible

Order 9066 saw to the incarceration of 110,000 from the west coast to as far as the Mississippi River. With the increasing fear and hysteria, it was not surprising the government fell into the pressure. Many saw the issei, or first generation Japanese immigrants as a threat and some saw nisei, or second generation Japanese Americans, the same- scared of the possible disloyalty. With the Japanese being the minority, few stood to represent the unconstitutional declaration

Twenty years after the First World War, humanity was, yet again, plagued with more hostility. September 1st, 1939 marked the start of World War II, this time, with new players on the board. Waves of fear and paranoia rippled throughout the United States, shaking its’ very foundation of liberty and justice for all. The waves powerfully crashed onto a single ethnic group, the Japanese-Americans, who had their rights and respect pulled away from them. They were seen as traitors and enemies in their

The Pearl Harbor bombing killed 2335 people and another 1000 were wounded.(Davis, Paul K.) The Hawaiian fortress and naval base were built with but one potential enemy in view, Japan. Studies concerning the Japanese bore on their military characteristics. It was well known that they were given to treachery and surprise. The President himself, less than a fortnight before Pearl Harbor, remarked that the Japanese “are notorious for making an attack without warning.”("Pearl Harbor in Retrospect.")