Nisei in Japan during the U.S. Occupation - Gordon Yamada

Gordon Yamada served in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II and in Japan during the U.S. occupation. In this clip, he talks about the significance of being Nisei, or second-generation Japanese American.
This clip is an excerpt from Gordon Yamada's oral history interview conducted July 1, 2000 by gayle k. yamada for her 2003 documentary Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties. To see the complete interview segment, visit the Densho Digital Repository (ddr.densho.org/....
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Military Intelligence Service: encyclopedia.de...

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I agree with Mr. Yamada's statement (and still shudder at the gross mistreatment of Japanese-American's by FDR's EO), but the REAL post-war beneficiaries of the Nisei's services were the Japanese citizens themselves. Just imagine how different the world would be today if Russia had succeeded in conquering Japan, as they threatened to do at war's end. And Japan itself almost allowed it to happen! Japan was lucky as hell to be conquered by America, not Stalin's Russia.

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Nisei in japan.wow