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SOURCE: The Nation
2/23/2021
Japanese Internment, Football, and a Legendary Team
Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast hosts Bradford Pearson, the author of "The Eagles of Heart Mountain," the story of a group of interned Japanese American teens whose football team dominated the state of Wyoming.
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SOURCE: Bitter Southerner
2/18/20201
Forgotten Camps, Living History: Japanese Internment in the South
by Jason Christian
Camp Livingston, deep in the Louisiana pines, used to be the site of a World War II Japanese internment camp. Drawing from the memories of internees, the research of two Louisiana State University librarians and other historians, and the activism of survivors and their descendants, this story uncovers a buried piece of American history.
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SOURCE: National Parks Service
4/27/2020
National Park Service Awards More than $3.1 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites
The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
3/2/2020
Bellevue College President, Vice President Out after Mural on Japanese American Incarceration was Altered
The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/18/20
California Plans to Apologize to Japanese-Americans Over Internment
Nearly 80 years after Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps, the State Assembly plans to formally apologize for its role in the detention.
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SOURCE: KUOW
6/28/2019
Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention
When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.
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5/25/19
How the Debate Over the Use of the Term ‘Concentration Camp’ was Amicably Resolved in 1998
by Ralph Seliger
How the Japanese-American organizers of a museum exhibit at Ellis Island entitled “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience” came to an amicable agreement with the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
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2/13/19
What a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty
by Sandra Vea
Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years. Yet, they had to keep their service secret for 30 years.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
6-26-18
Supreme Court’s Travel-Ban Includes Surprise Ruling: Japanese Internment Was Wrong
The decision explicitly renounced the Korematsu decision.
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2-17-17
The 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Order to Intern Japanese-Americans Is Frighteningly Timely
by Joanne Bernardi
More than ever, we need to think beyond borders and identities, to reframe the issues at hand in terms of what it means to be human.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
2-15-17
On this 75th anniversary of the order to intern Japanese-Americans, many are seeing parallels to the immigration ban
At the start of World War II, the U.S. opened 10 camps that interned 120,000 people, including the most famous one, Manzanar, in Northern California.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
2-2-17
During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security
The executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their homes also put immigrants from Italy under the watchful eye of the government.
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1-25-17
Another National Park Service tweeter has a not-so-subtle message for Donald Trump
Death Valley National Park’s official Twitter account posted stark reminders of the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11-29-16
Historian says it’s a relief to see Trump supporter hammered for suggesting Muslims be registered
Anne Blankenship says this is the difference from World War 2 when Japanese internment was floated as a proposal.
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11-18-16
Are Trump Supporters Seriously Citing the Internment of Japanese Americans as a Model?
by Bonnie Clark
This ugly part of the past cannot repeat itself on our watch.
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10-15-16
The Obvious Lesson We’re Ignoring from Our Internment of the Japanese During World War 2
by Scott McGaugh
Once again we’re stigmatizing people for no other reason than we’re scared and need a scapegoat.
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6-27-16
Yes, Yes to "No-No Boy," the New Play About a World War II Japanese-American Who Faces a Wrenching Decision in an Internment Camp
by Bruce Chadwick
"No-No Boy," a play by Ken Nagasaki, tells a troubling, scorching story of one Japanese-American’s decision to refuse to join the U.S. Army while he lived in one of the camps.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-10-14
George Takei Reflects on Travel, Both Painful and Pleasurable
The actor and Internet star has a sophisticated view of history.
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Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea--And the Lessons It Offers Today
by Daniel Pipes
For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on Muslims. If searching for rapists, one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical Islam), one looks at the Muslim population.And so, I was encouraged by a just-released
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