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DESCRIPTION:While more than 110\,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the
  United States endured mass incarceration during WWII\, the war also alter
 ed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who were stranded in Japan
 . For many Nisei strandees in Japan\, the war blurred the boundaries of th
 eir citizenship\, as they found themselves in situations where they had li
 ttle room to negotiate their national allegiance. As the battles in the Pa
 cific theater dragged on\, the Japanese government drafted a significant n
 umber of Nisei men in Japan to serve in the military and take arms against
  the United States.\n \n The Nisei soldiers and sailors in the Japanese ar
 med forces who survived the war learned that they had been stripped of the
 ir U.S. citizenship as a result of their service to the Japanese emperor. 
 Although these veterans of the Japanese military could recover their U.S. 
 citizenship after the war\, the onus was on them to convince the U.S. gove
 rnment that they had been forced to serve the Japanese emperor.\n\nDr. Mic
 hael Jin of Texas A&amp\;M University will be at the Japanese American Mus
 eum of San Jose (JAMsj) to discuss his research in a presentation entitled
  &quot\;The War and Its Aftermath: Nisei Draftees in the Imperial Armed Fo
 rces.&quot\; His presentation will be followed by a special discussion fea
 turing two Japanese Americans who found themselves serving in the Japanese
  military during WWII: Peter Sano and Jimmie Matsuda.\n\nRead more about o
 ur featured guests at www.jamsj.org.\n \n Cost: Free with admission to the
  museum (nonmembers\, $5\; students and seniors over age 65\, $3\; JAMsj m
 embers and children under 12\, free). \n Contact PublicPrograms@jamsj.org 
 or call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.
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SUMMARY:Fighting for the Emperor: Nisei Soldiers in the Imperial Armed Forc
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