Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2016
- To remember the 75th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Internment during the Second World War, Legion Magazine and David Suzuki tell the story of the injustices and atrocities done towards Japanese-Canadians across the country, and in particular, British Columbia. Visit www.legionmagazine.com for more information.
Narrated by David Suzuki
Directed & Edited by Adam Tindal
Written by Don Gillmor
Graphics & Animation by Julia Paddick
Produced by Jason Duprau and Jennifer McGill
Executive Producer: Jennifer Morse
Recording Engineer: Chris Goldade of Media Button
I'm Japanese, but I didn't know and even didn't learn the fact what happened during WWⅡ. Learning history is important today. Thank you for the video.
thank you david for being a canadian inspiration
I use this video in my social studies classes, it's an excellent resource. I noticed at the 6 min mark and right at the end of the video the music changes abruptly (which was never the case in the past years that I have used this video). I'm trying to figure out why this change was made, as it impacts the overall production of the video.
100%. I use the same video and the music change seemed to just occur one year. I just mute it and commentate over it... unfortunate.
David Suzuki was in Slocan , BC in camp as a boy.
I live in Slocan in one of the old internment houses (my bedroom and kitchen are the old house) when we re did the kitchen we found newspaper and sawdust as insulation and a pretty black and white Asian style cat glued to the wall, it made me sad to think of a child living there. The families had to build their own homes, kits were sold by the mill to the men who could buy them, two rooms, a bedroom and a kitchen about 20'x20' in total. A very sad piece of Canadian history for sure.... I always tell people that I live in David Suzuki s old house, I wish there was a way to prove it.
I watched this video after watching a couple videos about how well German POW's were treated in Canada during WW2. In many cases the German prisoners ate better than local residents as the Canadian government bent over backwards to meet conditions of the Geneva Convention. This video on internment of Canadian citizens of Japanese descent brought me to tears.
Amazing video!!💕 I love the organization and clarity to transmit ideas.
Thank you, Camila. We are glad that you love it.
For every action, there's a reaction. I condemn what Canada did as a reaction. War is the worst and thank you to all who served for the freedoms we currently have today.
Thank you David ~ Noted ! Jen
A beautifully well done video
Erik Butterfield i strongly agree
Erik Butterfield Yes agree "a beautifully well done video"
An estimated total of 70-85 million people died due to WWII. That is probably a clue as to why morals went out the window, and incidents like this happened.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
It is called the war measures act. And it is understandable. Fears drives poor decisions. It was war. Everyone lived in fear. Its sad
@@wendykanashiro3266 the war escalated by the pearl harbor attack? interesting...you hit you get fucked japan. KAMIKAZE!!!
Reminds me of Naruto and Star wars
a star wars video, this is not, but thank you for your reference, i do.
any botty eles watching this for online school
Learn to spell
i have a social studies project on this video helped me a lot
Same
@@shannon8838 OMG SAMEEE
Yeah my teacher is making me watch this video
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Had an awesome interview with this exceptional survivor of the INTERNMENT CAMPS: ua-cam.com/video/wWAlfdyjahM/v-deo.html
Such good content
Huge fan of Dr. Suzuki
Good job
Great grandfather I love you much too much I guess you never known cause I didn't know but I love you all azn girls boys and men especially fathers you guys are the best thing that ever you do too much! I'm just a loser that don't know how to survive without a warmth of a coke softdrink thank you and I love you.
50 years later the property values went up.... Were those families whose property was stolen given their property back or the equivalent in funds, or were the organization representing Japanese-Canadians given the money?
They got about $20k. Source: Grandmother was interred.
They received $21,000 tax free and a formal public and written apology in both languaged
get a job...why do you care about this issue so much
@@khav11 why dont you care more??? Its history.
@@wendykanashiro3266 it's anti Canadian propaganda. have you learned about the infamous nanking massacre or unit 731 perpetuated by imperial japan? stephanie is the tyical brainwashed trudeau libtard voter lmao!
So sad and this type of stuff is still going on!
where?
@@erenyeager6668, It happens everywhere around the world, just because it isn't posted doesn't mean it doesn't happen every day.
David should do a narrative of what happened to the Japanese Canadians who chose to go back to the ancestral homeland.
Well now I'm curious. Do you have more information on this?
Good Fifth Estate Documentary from 1995 covers some of the stories
ua-cam.com/video/ggNYkFg6AjA/v-deo.html
@@wesleynishi6081 thank you
Why does nobody talk about the internment of Europeans in World War 1 in Canada who were forced to work in brutal conditions?
Europeans should raise their voice and talk about it then.
Feel free to voice it. Same thing happened to Sons of freedom and Doukhobours. Talk about all of it so future generations know and dont repeat our mistakes.
@Xiang Li no because we win wars unlike the japanese. a chinese defending a japanese situation...i've seen it all. go check out nanking massacre bitch!
This ain’t about them tho
Europeans are not allowed to be seen as victims. History books write them as the oppressors.
What happened to them after the war?
I know this is a little late, but they were forced to move to other parts of Canada. They couldn't live in BC. My grandpa was in New Denver camp as a kid
@@gizmo8564 4000 chose to move to bombed out Japan. Don't blame them, really. King was a massive POS
Anyone here other than for school?
so sad ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The same happened in the US to German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Japanese-Americans. Had we suffered the devastation that Germany did during the war our concentration camps would have suffered the same fate as those of Germany. When infrastructure and supply stores are destroyed famine, and disease bring death and misery
Yay but without my blue jay and you as creatures when your not!
'' Only right they had : ''Right this way!'' ''
- George Carlin
Source secondaire
Another case of monkey-see-monkey-do. US does it so Canada follows.
Nah Canada had its own reasons
anyone else watching this for online school?
Please learn from this mistake. I wish more about Japanese Canadian internment was taught in schools. Its Canadian history. I live in an area surrounded by remnants of internment camps....Slocan, Lemon Creek, New Denver, Kaslo ect...yet my children were taught nothing of this in school. Shameful. Learn from this mistake. Respect
Japan learned, it won't happen again.
@@BillyBoard420 we should all learn....globally
@@wendykanashiro3266 I agree
next are the chineses. LOL ez
@@wendykanashiro3266 maybe you could learn in japan about the nanking massacre in your school education? oops
Shout out for class 9-3 doing Mrs Keays social studies assignments
ua-cam.com/video/W6vobBLNQOs/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/gpcHChE33Eo/v-deo.html
Eye for an eye.
Of note was the fact that Canadians of German origins and Italian origins , although their respective country of origin was part of the Axis which included Japan during WW2, were never oppressed by the government of Canada to the same extent. One possible explanation for this would be the ugliest one we could think of. The very reason why Canada joined the Allies to fight Nazi Germany to start with.
Btw Hitler didn't want to fight Canada, him and Mackenzie king were like best friends.
@@vothbetilia4862 who told you that?
@@marshlake74 There's a book about it, you can also look up Mackenzie king and Hitler, perhaps there's a article about it if I remember correctly.
Ukrainians in ww1 were sent to internment camps as well
Now let’s hear about how the Japanese treated Canadians captured at Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. Wounded men bayoneted in their hospital beds, nurses raped and tortured. Maltreatment and starvation of Canadians, cruelty beyond belief. Men taken to Japan and used as slave labour in coal mines and ship yards, denied food and medical help for 4 years arriving back home in 1945 less than 100 lbs. and told by the Canadian government not to tell anyone about the depravity they suffered. Care to talk about this Mr. Suzuki?
What does that have to do with Canadian internment camps? Fkn clown.
I am a Japanese-Chinese in Winnipeg.
During the British retreat of Malaya in 1941 and early 1942 the British realized that their wounded soldiers and the nurses looking after them were both being killed by the Japanese when there left behind during the retreat. The Japanese were also doing unspeakable things to the nurses prior to killing them. It was so bad during the final battle of Singapore that the British had to risk their nurses to be evacuated by sea and the huge risk of being sunk rather then let them be captured by the Imperial Japanese Army. This was the mindset at the time.
Brian Mackenzie Japanese Canadians had nothing to do with Japanese Imperial army
@@carlosmahabir9922 Right, we learnt in class today that the Japanese men and women sent back to Japan were mostly third or fourth generation Canadians, which meant that the men and women of which were sent to Japan had not even step foot on Japanese ground. Sad to think that they were not welcome in Canada, I was not taught this in high school, barely in University and it is because of this I am very very sad.
Carlos Mahabir so you’re saying they would have no connection to the country of their family origin? World war is a big deal, precautions like this pale in comparison to what happened to civilians and POW in Europe and Asia.
@Man Das they were in Canada, people of Italian and German ancestry were incarcerated BUT this was mostly on BC as xenophobia was the strongest there, pearl harbor was just the straw that killed the camel's back
@@B1u35ky get educated on this topic.
malroney was right but what are we going to do these days hence why since 06 this canadian pushed for OPM-Our Planet Peace People matter 1 alternative powered farming resources combo of solar wind and farming 2 a non social pro network for public gov and business that was turned into teaparty twitter crowdrise and rest of the grass roots propaganda we seen and 3 Public Options like net phone cable deal but nessesities for those who need t getting fair share out of the trumps of the world and getting justice out of rockefellers bushes and those behind georgia guild stones as ex
Cory are you ok?
This is war. It is impossible to understand WW2 from our modern, privileged perspective. I`m not saying it was right. The government was wrong, and this history should not be forgotten. Still, we should also keep in mind that Canada treated their minority populations FAR better than most other countries during these horrible times. It`s not because we were "better," than others. It is because of our geography....our oceans, the pacific and atlantic - placed us FAR far from our enemies. We were allowed the LUXURY of lucky geography, and for this reason we could afford to treat prisoners, minorities and other better than other countries did in WW2.
Matt M yet they still treated them like crap
except in the case of the Japanese, where the American's beat us in terms of treatment for what I believe is the only time in history (after both were individual nations and not colonies) as the Japanese were allowed to return and claim their assets immediately after the war were the Canadian-Japanese weren't allowed to reclaim their assets or return to the coast for years to come. They were also only compensated for an estimated 0.25% of their economic loss. Tho regardless, in the years to come, we as a nation have beaten many other nations in creating a nation we can be proud of, no matter our origin
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MM: that's such a stupid statement.
You are misinformed. You need to educate yourself before making such crass public statements. It makes you look foolish. Many internees were born in Canada. Many internees were forced to sleep in tents in the winter in Slocan Valley. Although beautiful in the winter it is frightfully cold. I could tell you more but it is the past.
I want to go to Canada!
Watching this video covering a dark part of our history, gave you the desire to visit Canada....
you have to be white to be accepted these days
@@khav11 HAHAHAHA learn your history, nowadays is when your accepted regardless of your race. Back then was when people were racist.
@@bearboy879 how old are you 16? shut your piehole and i was being facetious, google it twerp
NEXT?
If this video is accurate then Japanese Canadians were treated much worse than their interned Japanese American counterparts who were treated quite badly too but not nearly as badly as their Japanese Canadian counterparts. Yet the truth is that in any human society the oligarchy, the powers that be if you like, are never bound by the "rule of law" if enough of them agree to violate the law for some agreed purpose. Usually the powers that be don't totally agree how things should be run and have factions and rivalries among them. And who these shadowy powers that be are is always in flux. 500 years ago in Europe the powers that be were the most powerful noblemen and today in the West they are the most powerful giant corporations and billionaires. But one thing that never changes is that when enough of them agree they can do awful things with impunity. They can even commit crimes that would send anyone else to prison if there is sufficient consensus among the powers that be that such crimes should be committed under the circumstances.
To be fair (here I digress for one more paragraph but it's important) not all oligarchies are equally malign, far from it. But in all human societies there is always a small group of people "at the top of the food chain." And their mission is always to manipulate, rob, and subjugate all but themselves lest some rival group of people turn out to be "higher on the food chain" and do the same to them. Nor do any oligarchs feel guilty about abusing their mostly fashion driven drone subjects when they do abuse them. Everyone isn't a "fashion driven drone" of course, but remember that people who aren't a social fit tend to be fired or forced to resign from their jobs and tend to have few if any dating options. So most people conform to the local social culture to fit in and then lie to themselves and tell themselves they think they act thoughtfully when in fact they are just following the crowd to fit in. And unfortunately no successful revolution ever created a society without an unelected oligarchy. All any successful revolution ever accomplished was to replace one oligarchy with another one, and often an even much more malign and vicious one.
In the United States the powers that be interned Japanese Americans in Hawaii and on the American west coast on the pretext that a Japanese invasion of those areas might be imminent (despite a total lack of evidence that any such invasion was at all likely). In the U.S. the pretext for interning American citizens of Japanese origin was that they were in a "military zone" without permission (and never mind if that so called military zone was also their home). Thus large numbers of Japanese Americans lost homes and businesses for failure to pay taxes (while they were interned) and they or their living direct descendants would have to wait roughly 50 years to be compensated to the tune of roughly $20,000 each. But as unjust as this internment was, with no evidence of any disloyalty whatsoever on the part of these American citizens, the death rate in the camps where they were interned was the same as the death rate for the general American population. These American citizens were not free but they were at least adequately fed, housed, and clothed in stark contrast to Allied POWs in the Pacific where roughly one American in four never returned home from Japanese captivity.
But things change. So two years later, in 1944 with Japan being smashed in the Pacific, the same oligarchs who had arranged for the internment of these American citizens were now asking "why are we paying to feed and house these people (paraphrasing)?" as if they were their benefactors. Thus most Japanese Americans were released during 1944 though without any apology or financial compensation for having unjustly had everything taken from them. Finally and belatedly in 1944 most Japanese Americans were freed from their internment camps.
Yet despite this interment of American citizens in Hawaii and on the American west coast, in most of the United States since no one could seriously argue that any Japanese invasion of those parts of the U.S. was imminent, Japanese Americans in most of the U.S. were left alone. Tens of thousands of Japanese Americans even served honorably in the U.S. military in places like North Africa and Europe in World War II sometimes even with great distinction. There were no smartphones and it's very likely that most of those Japanese Americans were not even aware that other Japanese Americans had been illegally interned despite their theoretical due process rights. Depending on where their regiments were based a few Japanese Americans in places like Texas were even deployed to the Pacific to fight the Japanese although generally Japanese Americans who served the United States in World War II were deployed to fight the Germans, not the Japanese.
Law Professors frequently present these internments as shameful "aberrations" in our "democracy." But again, such outrages are far from aberrations. That's why the American Declaration of Independence speaks of mock trials for murderers of American colonists and of colonists being taken far away to be tried for pretended offenses. It's the oldest trick in the book and it can happen to anyone anywhere even today if enough of the powers that be agree for whatever reason that it is a good idea.
baaaoooooooooon
And now everyone in Europe wants to move to Canada or whatever... I'm not seeing that country in the same way anymore
FocusEagle but that was in the past yes,there is still some little racism in Canada but its literally one of the ways of life,free healthcare,good education,e.t.c
I mean, in no way do videos like this make our country look good. And I'm in no way saying that it's ok to do these things to people, I'm 100% NOT justifying it. BUT. Canada really is an incredible country, and I'm always finding more and more reasons why I'm so blessed to have been born here.
@@jamie.lynn004 australia probalby aint too bad either
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I mean tbh every country did horrible things during ww2
It’s amazing that to this day, people still support the “liberal” governments.
I hang my head in shame…. We must become better than this, to safeguard against this kind of systemic racism.
An eye for an eye logical in wartime’s
this bout my culminating lol
By early 1942 Japan was winning the war . They had captured Hong Kong and Singapore and decimated the US Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbour, conquered much of China and SE Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines . Australia was already in the line of fire. Canadians , by virtue of their British Empire connections were at war with a very dangerous enemy , and they would not have the current absurd confidence that they could not possibly lose the war . These were dangerous times.
From a racism perspective , Chinese Canadians were NOT interned, though many if not most 'white' Canadians of that time would have had racial bias or stereotyping against them - they were not however, Japanese . Racism colours the picture, but is not by any stretch the only story.
PLEASEEEEE SOMEONE DO MY HOMEWORK IK YALL WONT BUT ILL TRY
Explain four points from the videos about how Japanese Canadians were treated by the Canadian government during World War Two.
Describe one of these points, in detail, in four or more sentences.
how do we have the same homework and the same intentions of needing other people doing our homework
Noone ever talks about how Japanese took over Korea and it was worse
Watching this in Canadian history lol
Because fathers pulls off being a gangsters and suns can't with their longing for mom!
其实加拿大日裔没有什么过错惹，大多数都是在加拿大本地出生的跟日本没啥联系.....主要是日本政府做的事令人作呕emmm
现在中国人民在美国。
我们都是人
我一半华人一半日本人。
现在有justin不会有这种事了吧
I am so sorry for the awful treatment of these Canadian citizens. Unfortunately, prejudice still lives on in the everyday lives of those who are different in any way from the white man, in this country.
Its not about prejudice, Japan was the enemy. People of Japanese heritage could still hold ties, you never want spies or enemies on your homeland.
@@bearboy879 So were German Canadians detained and interned? How about Italian Canadians? Or how about family members of criminals?
Dont you see how ridiculous your argument is? These were Canadians, often 3rd or 4th generation with little to no ties to Japan other than being originally from or their family originally from there.
@@wesleynishi6081 No. But almost all of their businesses were fucked over by the government and the few that remained were boycotted by locals because the Germans were the enemy. After the war many businesses never were the same. Many Germans were also wrongly sent to prison for crimes of others due to biased courts. Many Germany families went bankrupt due to employers firing them. Just because 12,000 Japanese Canadians were sent to interment camps doesn't mean German Canadians didn't suffer. Also German Canadians were WAY more conman than Japanese Canadians in terms of the population numbers present in Canada. At that time a little over 20,000 Japanese Canadians lived in Canada. German Canadians were 600,000. So interning 12,000 aint too hard. Interning 600,000 is impossible. Stop making everything about "racism" and look at facts.
@@bearboy879 Lol if you can't recognize this as racism, you have no hope.
@@wesleynishi6081 I may be biased as I am of German descent. But NGL my argument was pretty thorough.
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Having to watch for class 😒smh
Pizz Time i feel ya
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me too
Same, not mad at it. It's important to know.
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