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   The Conversation U.S. (theconversationus@newsie.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:07:42 JST The Conversation U.S.

   “Often forgotten are the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii and were also forced from their homes and imprisoned in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland.
   Their forced relocation and incarceration has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the U.S. during World War II.”

   Pictured: A 1945 photograph of detainees at the Honouliuli Internment Camp ⬇️

   #History #Histodons #Hawaii

   https://theconversation.com/the-overlooked-story-of-the-incarceration-of-japanese-americans-from-hawaii-during-world-war-ii-188268

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:07:45 JST smellsofbikes

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     @TheConversationUS TIL in reading about related stuff: the US also pressured many South American countries to arrest their citizens who had Japanese ancestry and ship them to the US: about 2000 people from Peru, for instance. Many of them were never returned to their home countries.

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     Servelan (servelan@newsie.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 17:07:46 JST Servelan

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     @TheConversationUS My mother told me (I think in her 80's) about when the principal got on the speaker and told all the Japanese American kids to come to the office with their coats and things.

     She said she never saw her friends again. I could tell it still hurt.

     Reparations came about for the formerly incarcerated because unlike German- and Italian-Americans, there were no hearings, no investigations, just rounding up like cattle, no due process.

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