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The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII [18] 1987 Loni Ding: Conscience and the Constitution [19] 2000 Frank Abe Days of Waiting: 1990 Steven Okazaki: Dear Miss Breed [20] 2000 Veronica Ko Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II [21] 2000 Jeffrey S. Betts A Divided Community [22] 2012 Momo Yashima Double ...
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and into internment camps for the duration of the war.
Design for Death is a 1947 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] It was based on a shorter U.S. Army training film, Our Job in Japan, that had been produced in 1945–1946 for the soldiers occupying Japan after World War II. Both films dealt with Japanese culture and the origins of the war.
Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. The film, which was commissioned by the U.S. War Department , sought to educate American soldiers about Japan, its people, society and history, and ...
The film centers on Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder, and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II. [2] [3]
His main focus was on World War II, specifically the censorship of communications during the war. Naturally, Iwao and Hanaye's story was of great interest to his research. His book is written for historians and those looking to reach a deeper understanding of the lives of Japanese Americans through the eyes of the interned.
Nisei soldiers of WWI's 442nd Regimental Combat Team reflect on their service at a time when their loyalty to the US as Asian Americans has been questioned.
Pages in category "Documentary films about the internment of Japanese Americans" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .