1. Prisoners at Home.
- Author
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Shotz, Jennifer Li
- Subjects
INTERNMENT of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 ,CONCENTRATION camps ,WORLD War II ,ATTACK on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), 1941 ,WORLD War II campaigns ,JAPANESE Americans - Abstract
The article offers information on the experience of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Topics covered include their detention in internment camps on December 7, 1941 after the attack by Japan of Pearl Harbor, a U.S. military base in Hawaii and the U.S. declaring war on Japan the next day, the fear by Americans that people of Japanese ancestry were loyal to Japan, and the experience of the family of Japanese American Tim Taira in living in a Japanese internment camp.
- Published
- 2018