War & Resistance
Of Goodbyes and InvisibilitiesBy Shigueru Julio Tsuha Learn more about this issue at "Redress Remembered: WWII Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans," a public program this Saturday, October 25, 2008 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA. What do you hate most about this world? Posed this question, you are undoubtedly thinking of forces that have most deeply disrupted and disturbed your life and that of those around you. Disease, poverty, violence, all sure quickly bubble up from the depths of your memories and highlight the pages of the story that is your life when you think about the answer to this question.
Cuando la justicia tarda y no llega: Memorias del abusoPor Luis Daniel Goya Callirgos Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los japoneses radicados en el Perú fueron víctimas de abusos. El mayor de ellos, haber sido deportados al campo de concentración de Crystal City, en Estados Unidos. Aquí el testimonio de dos nikkei que estuvieron allí y cuentan su historia. Entre 1942 y 1945 los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y del Perú trabajaron conjuntamente para enviar a cerca de mil japoneses y niseis radicados en Perú a campos de concentración en territorio estadounidense.
Ralph L. Carr’s LegacyBy George N. Yoshida On March 14, 2008, Representative Rob Witwer presented House Resolution HJR08-1010 to rename part of Colorado Highway 285 as the “Ralph Carr Memorial Highway” which passed in the Colorado House of Representatives and Colorado Senate unanimously, in honor of Governor Ralph Carr who stood up to protect the Constitutional civil rights of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Paper Cranes - History students make origami for peaceBy Carly Gutzmann and Michelle Reed Carly Gutzmann (14) and Michelle Reed (14) are friends who live in Minnesota. In the fall of 2006, they decided to make a documentary for National History Day. The topic that year was “Triumph and Tragedy in History.” They called their documentary The Art and Soul of Topaz Relocation Center.
Amache NightBy Gary Ono I call this hauntingly provocative photograph from my Issei grandmother, Owai Okamura’s photograph album “Amache Night.” This is the only night scene of a War Relocation Authority camp that I’ve ever seen. I believe one of my uncles might have taken this photograph. As a child, I recall photographic printing being developed in the mess hall sink at night.
Digging Into the Past: A volunteer's experience at ManzanarBy Marie Masumoto On my birthday, May 6, 2007, I got an e-mail from my friend Park Ranger Carrie Andresen-Strawn at the Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center. She wanted to know if I would like to volunteer on an excavation of two gardens at Blocks 9 and 10. These two blocks housed most of the Terminal Islanders who were forced to leave their homes, businesses and give up their livelihood and their successful occupations as fishermen.
JAVA: Finding the Elixir of SurvivalBy Calvin Ninomiya At a time when many U.S. veterans organizations have declining membership, are moribund, or have voted themselves out of existence, the Japanese American Veterans Association of Washington, DC, has shown real growth. Prior to 2005, JAVA, as the group is popularly known, had 216 members. Now, it boasts 520 members, well over 100 percent in just three years! Of these, 79 were transfers from defunct vet organizations. New membership averaged out to more than 45 each of the past three years.
母国アメリカと戦った日系人たち その３兄弟で敵味方に分かれて戦う －阿久根三郎さん－ 阿久根三郎さんは1926年カリフォルニア州中部の生まれ。７歳の時に、兄弟と共に親の故郷、鹿児島へ渡る。母親が亡くなったので、鹿児島の祖母の元で暮らすらめだった。９人兄弟の上から６番目。名前の三郎は３番目の男の子だったからだ。父親は子供たちを故郷に連れて帰ると、すぐに仕事をしにアメリカに戻っていった。兄弟だけで残された日本では、日本語がわからないだけでなく、年より下の学年に入れられたことも原因となり苛められた。抵抗するために、三郎少年は剣道を習い始める。自分と兄弟たちを守る手段だった。
母国アメリカと戦った日系人たち その２国籍を問わずに徴兵、中野学校への命令 —大森馨一さん－ 小野さんに続いて話を聞いたのは、1917年カリフォルニア州ベンチュラ生まれの大森馨一（けいいち）さん。当時の二世の例に漏れず、大森さんも日本で教育を受けるために、10歳で両親の故郷である熊本へ。小学校を卒業して中学から大阪外語へ進学した。蒙古（モンゴル）語を専攻し、昭和15年（1940年）に卒業し、政府機関に就職。赴任先のモンゴルへ向かった。そこで徴兵され、一旦日本へ帰国、久留米の第一戦車隊に入隊した。将校になるための幹部候補生だった。
Journey to HonouliuliBy Brian Niiya “We’ve got to find a way to preserve that,” Jeff said to me. “You know that’s an original building.” Jeff was Jeff Burton, an archeologist who works for the National Park Service and who is the recognized expert on the archeology of the sites where Japanese Americans and others were confined during World War II. It was late February, and we were on the site of the Honouliuli internment camp in central O‘ahu where Burton and his team were conducting an archeological survey.
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