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  • In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that cleared the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans in U.S. confinement camps. Men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were evicted from the West Coast of the United States and held in sites across the country.
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  • @sebrinabennett5024
    @sebrinabennett5024 2 роки тому +82

    I have a story to share. My grandpa and grandma owned a dairy farm just outside Lodi, Ca. They had Japanese family neighbors that had a Nursery and were assigned to be in a camp in Southern California. Somehow my grandpa and the head of the Japanese family knew they would lose their land and business. So they sold it to my grandpa and kept some of their belongings. Grandma said they stayed in communication with the family all through the years and the government even attempts to take the land. When the years past the Japanese family came back home and my grandpa sold it back to them. The exchange was only $1.
    I found out this story from Grandma years later when she was getting new landscaping done and had these wonderful bushes brought by a Nursery in town. The Japanese family always came and took care of the yard and landscaping of my grandmas house until she died in 2012. Till this day the same family still runs the business. And by the way, my grandpa was German and he didn’t have it any better during that time.

    • @hondakubo9399
      @hondakubo9399 2 роки тому +4

      Gods bless your family 🙏❤️🎌🇺🇸 Thank you 🙏

    • @saidufofanah2210
      @saidufofanah2210 2 роки тому +7

      Your grandparents sound like they were great people.

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +7

      @Sabrina Bennett I have a story for you.
      Believe it or not, my grandparents and mother told me that story several times when I was a kid and we now tell it to our kids. I think other families do too. There is a reason why it is important to us.
      She, my mom, was born in camp, but my grandparents lived in Berkeley. My grandfather would go out to Lodi, Stockton and Modesto to buy plants for his nurseries. Some of them came from your family friends. There was a lot to worry about in camp. When they would be released and where they would go was a big one. They, your friends (I'm not sure why chose not to include their name, but I think it has to do with Shi kata ja nai so I will follow suit), said they were not worried because of the arrangement with your grandfather. My grandfather, like many others, did not trust that the property would be returned. Left alone in the freezing, barren desert of Tule Lake, the only other people around being white men with guns pointed at them, some racism crept in.
      "Why would a white man keep his promise? Look at what they already done."
      My family returned to the bay with no home, no money and no prospects for either. It was a few years after the war had ended when they were finally released, I think your friends had gotten out a little earlier. My grandfather borrowed some money from our church and bought a truck and headed out to Lodi to see if he could find someone who would allow him to take some plants on credit to restart his business. He said he was shaking from fear the entire way. He didn't know if he would be lynched or even welcome. To his pleasure, there was you friends, on their property as promised.
      My grandfather would tell us he had to endure many shameful experiences in camp, but he was never more ashamed of himself then on that day.
      The reason they told us is this.
      shousuu no akukou ga subete no hito no tame ni hanasu koto wo yurushi nai de kudasai
      It means "Do not let the misdeeds of a few speak for all".
      We do not allow bigoted speech in our family.

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +5

      @Sabrina Bennett
      On his behalf, I'd like to apologize to your grandfather for mine doubting him. I really think he held onto that shame all of his life. He was very intolerant of intolerance.

    • @gabbybliss5602
      @gabbybliss5602 2 роки тому

      wo no this is an amazing story thank u and god bless u and your family and the Japanese family

  • @rickuslastname6305
    @rickuslastname6305 2 роки тому +40

    "Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological nation plans for it." Carl Sagan
    "Rights aren't rights if you can just take them away, they're privileges, and that's all we've ever had" George Carlin

    • @garylee12345
      @garylee12345 2 роки тому +2

      This thinking person questions if nuclear weapons are even real !!
      How do you know they are ?
      After the bombing of Japan , the Japanese ppl rebuilt back right away & to this day there was no nuclear fall out. The earthquake that hit Japan's nuclear facility within the last decade didn't stop life around it nor the fisherman on that coastline.
      Things that make you go hmmm 😒

    • @stevusbeefus
      @stevusbeefus 2 роки тому +2

      @@garylee12345 radiation levels there are still abnormally high, its quite absurd and ignorant to say that nuclear weapons are not real lol. its not some massive conspiracy to pretend they exist.

    • @garylee12345
      @garylee12345 2 роки тому +2

      Is Hiroshima & Nagasaki still populated today ??!! So , why do you blindly believe the fear propaganda !!?? This comment ☝ is the perfect example of wilfull ignorance !!
      There's weapons of mass destruction in Iraq too right 👎
      How many LIES does it take for some to finally start questioning the validity of these things !!??

    • @williamminamoto.7535
      @williamminamoto.7535 2 роки тому

      What George said is absolutely true.. do you know why.. who.. how.. when.. where.. what.., what’s going on..

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому

      @@williamminamoto.7535 Are you related to Michelle Minamoto?

  • @tvdv3416
    @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for making this.
    The Chiyoji and Hideko Nagatoshi Family
    Tule Lake Relocation Camp
    1942-1946

  • @Someonelol2010
    @Someonelol2010 Місяць тому

    Gratitude to my great great grandfather who was in those camps we miss you thanks for sacrificing your life for us❤

  • @raymondalverez5999
    @raymondalverez5999 Рік тому +4

    Gratitude to my ancestors...
    My great grandfather Wasuke Hirota and family..
    Grandfather Wasuke passed away at Heart Mountain, Wyoming...
    A proud internee, an example for my foundation =ASSIMILATION...
    Blessed to learn the European ways= SURVIVAL.

  • @txddyfarquh3916
    @txddyfarquh3916 2 роки тому +5

    Sadly, I feel THIS mindset of incarcerating Humans for no good reason other than "Fear" will never go away.....

  • @andrewthurman8836
    @andrewthurman8836 2 роки тому +8

    As a kid I just couldn't understand how this wonderful, talented, patient teacher would ever have been subjected to treatment like that

  • @geigertec5921
    @geigertec5921 2 роки тому +16

    "History doesn't often repeat per se but it does echo." Looking at you Australia.

  • @peterclark6290
    @peterclark6290 2 роки тому +4

    A really great novel that covers this and the ramifications is _Snow Falling on the Cedars;_ so good I had the read it twice, back to back.

    • @bonnie92553
      @bonnie92553 2 роки тому +2

      I read that book when I was young and couldn’t believe it… then i reread it when I was older and wiser to know these things did happen 😭it was so sad.

  • @tommystunestoons
    @tommystunestoons 2 роки тому +8

    Bad things happen to people during wars. If you think this is bad, don't support war, EVER!

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 2 роки тому

      That’s terrible advice.

    • @mydogniko
      @mydogniko 2 роки тому

      What kind of fairytale are you living in?

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman 2 роки тому +4

    This is very sad.

  • @Gritino
    @Gritino 2 роки тому +37

    The new Australia documentary looking great!

    • @misssamartypants
      @misssamartypants 2 роки тому +3

      Sean Mayer You bloody numpty!

    • @misssamartypants
      @misssamartypants 2 роки тому +5

      @@PaulRudd1941 You’ve got me there cobber ;) !

    • @gullyfoyle3915
      @gullyfoyle3915 2 роки тому

      Right, attack a western nation instead of, say, China, which by far and away is more deserving of such criticism. Self-hating western leftists are truly contemptible.

    • @gullyfoyle3915
      @gullyfoyle3915 2 роки тому

      @@PaulRudd1941 You ridiculous clownish sycophant, you're not a revolutionary, and you're certainly no voice of authority, moral or otherwise... I don't require your permission for anything.

    • @D4rthsunny
      @D4rthsunny 4 дні тому

      what is Australia doing to Asians?

  • @user-vd3kw1fo9y
    @user-vd3kw1fo9y Місяць тому

    53:48
    Truer words have never been spoken

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 2 роки тому +1

    I wish the reconstructed camp was there when my family took a cross country trip in 1961!

  • @jecker19000
    @jecker19000 2 роки тому +9

    Hopefully we can all learn something from this. Seems oddly applicable today.

    • @BeBopScraBoo
      @BeBopScraBoo 2 роки тому +4

      because australia is locking up the unvaxxed in camps.

    • @garylee12345
      @garylee12345 2 роки тому

      And they don't even have corona. They're simply being accused of being in " contact " with someone.
      Rise

    • @hunkallgood73
      @hunkallgood73 2 роки тому +2

      @@BeBopScraBoo that's a batshit crazy conspiracy story but the unvaxxed should have the decency to quarantine themselves from the rest of the responsible people if they're unwilling to do what's best for the good of society and the interest of public health. You don't get to come inside my hatshop if you're not masked or vaccinated. If you don't like it either follow protocol or find another place to shop.

    • @hunkallgood73
      @hunkallgood73 2 роки тому +1

      @@garylee12345 liar

    • @garylee12345
      @garylee12345 2 роки тому

      ☝ tyrant ☝ !!!!!
      Unamerican !!! 💯

  • @frigginsane
    @frigginsane Рік тому +2

    I've lived in California since 1977 when I was born. I never heard of this story before today.
    Discrimination is painful to be discriminated against due to no fault of my own, but due to hateful stereotypes that somehow continue down generations. I'm told as recently as today to grow thicker skin (as they said my kind of person is a flaw) seeming to fail to recognize their own bigotry, being treated as less than human hurts so deep, I cant easily put to words the measure of pain that never seems to heal.

  • @mc-lb9dk
    @mc-lb9dk 2 роки тому +22

    I am writing a bio of a lady that spend four years in a Danish concentration camp as a child from 8 to 12 AFTER WWII. The lady, then a child, was in these prisons from march 1945 till February 1949. An issue that hardly anybody knows about. 240,000 prisoners, mainly women and children under 14 spend up to four years in these camps. 17,000 died in the camps. It would be an interesting topic for these series as well. If anybody wants some info, DM me. The danish let these german prisoners initially die from hunger and lack of medicine and froze to death. She survived with her mother by stealing and secretly boiling potato peels.

    • @SkyValleyStuff
      @SkyValleyStuff 2 роки тому

      the aligns were never the "good guys" in ww2

    • @user-rr5sl9hv9d
      @user-rr5sl9hv9d 2 роки тому +2

      Hi where can i learn more abt this?

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 2 роки тому

      @@user-rr5sl9hv9d I guess only via me. The internet doesn't say much about this issue as it has been covered up for 70 years

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 2 роки тому +2

      @@user-rr5sl9hv9d Denmark is creating a museum of the largest of all the camps, it should have been openened last year but due to the plandemic it is postponed. So there will be some more openness to it soon but I don't know if they have much first hand info, I doubt if they even have the correct numbers. I have them.

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 2 роки тому +1

      @@SkyValleyStuff Allies include Soviets. Something hidden in the western propaganda. Without them, we would all speak German now. Well, I do, but not native.

  • @michaelhuber6476
    @michaelhuber6476 Рік тому +2

    currently I have been learning about WW2. I had almost forgot about this but I had remember a couple things from fourth grade that made me seek out the history of concentration camps in America. I am not proud to know that this is apart of my nation's history. It is sad to know that of all I searched on WW2, I never came across the Japanese concentration camps. I had to search for it myself. it seems that was done on purpose. we can not move forward if we cannot accept what happened in the past and try to better this nation so such atrocities never happened again. The only way we can do that is if we learn of our past.

  • @lowerclassbrats77
    @lowerclassbrats77 2 роки тому +29

    Fast forward to 2021 and Australia has built and begun filling their own internment camps. If this isn't vile enough they're building more scheduled to open in 2022.

    • @user-ji6xd7cl8x
      @user-ji6xd7cl8x 2 роки тому

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    • @garomcfbgdd3211
      @garomcfbgdd3211 2 роки тому +11

      I told a Coworker about the camps in Australia - that they're sending People there who have committed no crime and without due process.
      They called me a conspiracy theorist.
      Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

    • @misssamartypants
      @misssamartypants 2 роки тому

      @@garomcfbgdd3211 Queenslander here…. honestly wouldn’t mind being ‘interned’ in one of those camps as I haven’t had a holiday in a while and it looks bloody great!

    • @gscryinlikeabitch
      @gscryinlikeabitch 2 роки тому +1

      @@misssamartypants I'm sure you'd love being threatened with $5000 fines and imprisonment for not wearing a mask on a balcony then being offered valium to treat the stress from being forced into a camp with a negative test. Hayley Hodgson already spoke out against the immoral practice and look no further than the Standford Prison Experiment to see how that level of power goes to peoples heads.

    • @johncole4882
      @johncole4882 2 роки тому +5

      @@misssamartypants deplorable attitude to have toward your liberties and civil rights

  • @dinola3268
    @dinola3268 2 роки тому +6

    Nice to hear about the US-Concentration-Camps (in German: Konzentrationslager), which I visited some years before. In Germany the US-military-regime condammed all “Lagerkommandanten“ to death. Why not in thr US?

    • @gullyfoyle3915
      @gullyfoyle3915 2 роки тому +2

      Well, for starters, because U.S. camps weren't death camps where people were intentionally executed/worked/starved/tortured to death which the German camps were. It's false equivalency to place the 2 on the same plane at all.

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +1

      @@gullyfoyle3915 I think that's the German equivalent of a right wing bot/troll.
      Well written response, though. Perfectly exemplifies how my parents explained to us about their experiences.
      My father and uncle were the only survivors from their family to survive Dachau, Poland.
      My Mother was born in Tule Lake Relocation Center.
      Both terrible experiences, but that's where the similarities end.

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +2

      $5000 is nothing compared to what was lost. Homes, businesses, property, family heirlooms etc.
      For many, the social and psychic injuries impacted them their entire lives. My grandfather was a very devout Buddhist, that is to say he was frugal and mindful of his emotions. He always told us to save diligently and never spend money. Beyond that he didn't like to talk about money at family events, telling us it got in the way. "Important ja-nai!!" he would say.
      But for all that, periodically he would have panic attacks about having people coming to take everything away and start over. He would lament his age. After he past away we found around 50 savings accounts he'd had opened that nobody knew about in banks that were 2-3 states away. That was in the late 90's. A full 50 years after camp.
      A few thousand dollars doesn't and a presidential "my bad" doesn't cover that.

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +1

      @@ramenlover1727 where were they? My mom was born in Tule Lake

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому

      @@ramenlover1727 Did you ever read the books by Yoshiko Uchida when you were a kid? One of them takes place there.
      What's really messed up is the people that were sent to crystal city weren't given any compensation because they were from Latin America. They were brought there by the US government without visas. They were stuck there long after the camps were supposed to be closed because the government couldn't figure out what to do. They now a population of illegal immigrants that they created. Bakarashii ne?

  • @mistyrivers4995
    @mistyrivers4995 2 роки тому

    Someone has to make a movie about this. It can be be very emotional mvie though.

  • @reyvargas2913
    @reyvargas2913 2 роки тому +2

    A very inspirational documentary. It was wrong to incarcerate the Japanese-American citizens during WW2 just because the color of their skin or their nationality.

  • @simoncaron6424
    @simoncaron6424 2 роки тому +3

    What was the fate of Europeans trapped in Japan during World War 2?

  • @fearlessfosdick160
    @fearlessfosdick160 2 роки тому +33

    Yes, well, here's the thing about that. There was an incident that occurred just after Pearl Harbor that is little known today. During the raid, a Japanese pilot was hit and ditched in the water near a small island just off of Oahu. Some of the Japanese-Americans who lived on the island attempted to aid this pilot and people got killed because of it. This ended up being one of the reasons that the US government chose to move the Nisei off of the west coast. This period was, unfortunately, a panicky moment in the US.

    • @talam563
      @talam563 2 роки тому +9

      They literally talked about it in part 1

    • @LoneHeckler
      @LoneHeckler 2 роки тому +5

      But when other countries do the same thing it's suddenly a war crime. America was only justified in this case because it won the war

    • @SWNelson7
      @SWNelson7 2 роки тому +4

      Yeah it was a freaking WORLD WAR. What do people expect? It was a conglomeration of last-ditch efforts to keep the country safe. It was a mess, because it was a war.

    • @ray1988ME
      @ray1988ME 2 роки тому

      @@SWNelson7 During war or any crisis there is going to be a mess. Theres no arguement there to ditch basic human rights or reason for 'safety'. Soon you'll want unvaccinated people in camps. Scary thought there.

    • @gscryinlikeabitch
      @gscryinlikeabitch 2 роки тому +3

      @JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE You want to know how the Japanese treated their pow's during that time look no further than Unit 731 which performed vivisections as well as numerous other forms of inhumane experiments.

  • @justme8837
    @justme8837 2 роки тому +8

    Seems like Australia it is doing the same thing with Covid as the excuse.

  • @thomasgoss8181
    @thomasgoss8181 2 роки тому +7

    My heart goes out to all that suffered. Again it's pure evil in my eye's.

    • @dougfrench8231
      @dougfrench8231 2 роки тому +1

      Well, that's what the democrats are !

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +1

      I'm sorry someone or something felt the need to smear your thoughtfulness. Make no mistake, they failed.
      Way to represent, my brother🤘

  • @uranus.tlatoani
    @uranus.tlatoani 2 роки тому +3

    The same thing was done in all the countries at war, the Japanese were brutal with their prisoners, and they say nothing of this.

    • @avidreader1072
      @avidreader1072 2 роки тому +1

      Perhaps we can all learn from history. Lets hope so😥

    • @f430ferrari5
      @f430ferrari5 5 місяців тому

      The Japanese Americans were 2/3 US citizens. Wake up.

  • @pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319
    @pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319 3 місяці тому

    Had an awesome interview with this exceptional survivor of the INTERNMENT CAMPS: ua-cam.com/video/wWAlfdyjahM/v-deo.html

  • @playerish
    @playerish 2 роки тому +1

    How come the champion of human rights and the champion of freedom could do such thing to its own citizens?

  • @mxqy
    @mxqy 2 роки тому +1

    @32:00 “the humiliation does not stop even after her death”

  • @BashirAhmed-wr7lf
    @BashirAhmed-wr7lf 2 роки тому +8

    Two Nations which impressed me the most are Japanese and Germans, who were completely annihilate during the 2nd WW, & today they are the third and fourth largest economies. 👍

    • @hmpesky08
      @hmpesky08 2 роки тому +5

      American money made that happen.

    • @SuperTrumpMAGA
      @SuperTrumpMAGA 2 роки тому +2

      @@hmpesky08 , am sure u r talking about Rossiya & China the most closest buddy of US dude !!

  • @aquilesboy198
    @aquilesboy198 2 роки тому +7

    Los japoneses americanos sufrieron mucho durante la guerra, muchos de ellos pelearon del lado americano a pesar de que sus familiares eran obligados a pasar condiciones tan denigrantes.

    • @joyceharmon2496
      @joyceharmon2496 2 роки тому +2

      What else could have been done in this situation the entire world was at the brink of extinction. I'm deeply sorry for Japanese Americans had to be imprisoned. Pray we never live through something even close . The world is in a deep pain of hunger lack shelter and boarders . God have mercy on humanity.

    • @aquilesboy198
      @aquilesboy198 2 роки тому

      Jesus Christ saves us from our sins

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +1

      Gracias por reconocer esta tragedia, pero no fue relagada solo a Estados Unidos. El presidente Roosevelt utilizó la presión económica para obligar a los países de América Central y del Sur a los japoneses que vivían allí a entrar en campamentos estadounidenses. Esto era más vergonzoso para ellos porque no hablaban inglés y todos tenían miedo de hablar japonés. Los campamentos para los japoneses latinoamericanos y un campamento que alberga a lo que llamaban inmigrantes o ciudadanos que regresaron a Japón o que solo hablaban japonés se mantuvieron en funcionamiento durante dos años después de que terminó la guerra. Cuando finalmente cerraron, los japoneses de habla hispana no pudieron regresar a sus hogares porque fueron traídos aquí sin visas ni pasaportes. Algunos se quedaron, otros finalmente se fueron a casa, pero a partir de 1988, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos pagó las repeticiones. $5000 por los cientos de miles de dólares perdidos por cada familia, pero no reconocieron a los japoneses latinoamericanos que secuestraron y retuvieron sin juicio ni razón. Lo sé porque soy nieto de dos de los que fueron sacados del Perú. El gobierno de Estados Unidos ocultó la existencia de los campos durante 40 años. No fue hasta que Noriyuki Morrita (Mr.Miyagi) escribió la escena en Karate Kid en 1984 donde le cuenta a Daniel-San al respecto que la mayoría de los estadounidenses se enteraron de que esto alguna vez sucedió.

  • @WillsM85
    @WillsM85 Рік тому

    Where is Part 1? Anyone have the link?

    • @WillsM85
      @WillsM85 Рік тому

      Got it: ua-cam.com/video/5YhhoB7yam4/v-deo.html

  • @rockbutcher
    @rockbutcher 2 роки тому +2

    Hey Timeline, advertisements every 7 minutes is a bit much. Even TV isn't that extreme.

  • @johncole4882
    @johncole4882 2 роки тому +3

    Why was it so important to keep them out of the west coast? Does anyone know? Is it because the Pacific theater and the fact that Japan was off our west coast?

    • @oyanta1118
      @oyanta1118 2 роки тому

      Is because California has a high concentration of racist people, they still do even to this day .

    • @tvdv3416
      @tvdv3416 2 роки тому +1

      @John Cole.
      First of all, I assume you know that the first answer to your question is a garbage answer from a garbage person.
      Your instinct is part of a much larger answer. The War Dept. certainly said that, and I suppose with reason. There was infact a Japanese Zero that landed an attack in Oregon, and a couple of Balloon Bombs made it to the west coast as well.
      Racism did have much more to with it, but it it had more to do with Roosevelt and his administration's bigotry and less to with California's.
      After Pearl Harbor, obviously we needed new ships on the Pacific
      Building them Norfolk, VA and going around the southern tip of Chile would take too long so the decision was made to build some of them in the San Francisco Bay, and Los Angeles ports. There happened to be a large community of Japanese people in both places, which was quite convenient.
      Roosevelt was also interested getting black people put of the South so his administration courted black folks to migrate to California and build the ships by offering work and an opportunity to buy a new home. Some, but not all had to gaurauntee they would purchase home before the government would provide aid to relocate. When they got here, they found that the work was there, but the promised wage was not, but they had committed to buy these new homes which were built just for them.....oh they weren't built for them and they weren't new. They were the homes of recently relocated Japanese-Americans with refinished floors and a new coat of paint.
      When the Japanese came back, they found that they had no place to live. The reality of the situation hit both communities at the same time, but there was nothing to do. The homes new occupants had purchased the homes under pressure, this is where Red Lining comes in; and considering where they had just come from, Japanese-Americans had no reason to think anyone would care that the government stole their homes, gave them to banks who sold stolen property to the incoming southerners.
      So from nothing, they started over.
      There are certain implications about the lies being told to us about American economy, but that's not what you asked about.

    • @MyHandleRocks
      @MyHandleRocks 5 місяців тому

      In case the Japanese pilots figured out a way to get kamakaze pilots to fly further into America.

  • @vicmorrison8128
    @vicmorrison8128 2 роки тому +5

    I know it was wrong, but I wouldn't have wanted to be Japanese American walking the streets back then.

    • @tomt373
      @tomt373 2 роки тому +4

      It didn't help that when the Japanese couple still loyal to home country actually sheltered a downed Japanese pilot from the Pearl Harbor attack instead of turning him in, on one of the Hawaiian islands, became known to the American public.

    • @nebag1
      @nebag1 2 роки тому

      Why?????

    • @nebag1
      @nebag1 2 роки тому +3

      America knew about the Pearl Harbor attack....
      That was the reason they could enter WW2 for economic reasons!!!

    • @tomt373
      @tomt373 2 роки тому

      @@nebag1 Economic, or to justify openly supporting Britain, the USSR and China in their struggles against the Axis powers?

    • @laecard1778
      @laecard1778 2 роки тому +1

      @@nebag1
      That’s a conspiracy theory, and not even a coherent one. After all, if Japan was going to attack them that’s already a act of war, regardless of how prepared you were.

  • @darthtyranus7683
    @darthtyranus7683 2 роки тому +7

    They deserve a memorial like everyone else

    • @Someonelol2010
      @Someonelol2010 Місяць тому

      They have one in California and some of the camps have memorials at them now and some got congressional medal of honor (including my great grandfather) who lost his life

  • @patfromamboy
    @patfromamboy 6 місяців тому

    The show was called “Your Hit Parade”

  • @DavidM2002
    @DavidM2002 2 роки тому +1

    Silent, maybe. Sacrifice, no ? Nothing given up by them willingly.

  • @user-vj5fb3ig4z
    @user-vj5fb3ig4z 2 роки тому +4

    never forget the American concentration camps

  • @cliffordyamasaki3899
    @cliffordyamasaki3899 2 місяці тому

    What's overlooked is that it was for their safety more than anything.watch bad day at black rock

  • @nebag1
    @nebag1 2 роки тому +1

    Deported their own citizens!!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮

  • @davidcrowder9603
    @davidcrowder9603 2 роки тому

    Yep they are getting all the camps going.

  • @tommystunestoons
    @tommystunestoons 2 роки тому +8

    There is no connection between the Japanese internment camps during WWII in the USA and Canada and the covid-19 camps today in Australia. It's two very different situations.

  • @christianbass10
    @christianbass10 2 роки тому

    I hope they watched the Japanese and American veterans meeting each other.

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs 2 роки тому +4

    This is a war crime

  • @loois3431
    @loois3431 2 роки тому +2

    Just look at what america did to african-americans even without war, we know what this is all about...

  • @stevep5408
    @stevep5408 Місяць тому

    I always found the internment of Japanese civilians baffling until recently finding out about the Niaha island incident. During the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese navy believed Niaha island was uninhabited. Instructing their flyers to land on the island to be picked up later. The island was actually inhabited by approximately 80 native Hawaiians and several first generations Japanese Americans. A Japanese navy aviator crash landed on the island. The folks there not knowing about the attack and declaration of war detained the flyer. The flyer convinced the first generation Japanese Americans to help him escape, destroy secret documents and his downed Zero fighter! No reason? No good reason? A fair reason? Considering the capture of a zero fighter in the Aletution islands in 1943 was concidered one of the most important intelligence operations of the Pacific war. It would have taken place in 1941 if not for Nisea of Nieha island?

  • @bluedot6933
    @bluedot6933 3 місяці тому

    just so everyone understands, these camps were voluntary. Japanese could go there if they had no money and no place to stay. No one was forced to go there.

  • @owlnyc666
    @owlnyc666 2 роки тому +1

    Framing, evacuation and relocation camps or CONCENTRATION? Were Japanese from the East coast forced to relocate?

    • @owlnyc666
      @owlnyc666 2 роки тому

      German POW camps or Concentration camps? Apologices an Repations were made to for the injustice, should the same be done for all the other ethnicities that were victimized? There were No No Boys and Yes Yes Boys. Did any Japanese Americans move to Japan after the war? I do not think it is fair to compare Japanese relocation camps with the German relocation? Camps. I think there was a significant difference in purpose and degree. However I do think it was unjust. However , it is moral hindsight. I would like to think I would oppose the injustice and there were some non Japanese did. But I can't say with certainty that I would have opposed it. 🤔😉😥

    • @owlnyc666
      @owlnyc666 2 роки тому

      Of course we know that the same thing would never, ever happen any other ethnic minority native born or immigrants NOT EVEN MUSLIMS? 🤔😉

  • @bswogger4656
    @bswogger4656 2 роки тому

    This country makes up all of us, including visitors.
    These people did not even ask “what they could do for our country” and they did it! That being patriotic as well as a major violation. The logic does not make much sense to me but many of that time thought it was only thing to do.
    Thank all you for your service wanting to help Untied States!

  • @telefunkenyou47
    @telefunkenyou47 29 днів тому

    I want to file a wrongful incarceration suit for 100 million dollars.
    If you look at similar cases just a civil rights violation arrest warrants millions and that’s one night in jail. Try three years and our 1,600 acer farm.
    My grandfather was the largest garlic producer in the entire US before the war and the same people who took our farm then are the largest garlic producers in the country today.
    This is just what was stolen from one family. Three generations have suffered since.

  • @cliffordyamasaki3899
    @cliffordyamasaki3899 2 місяці тому

    Japan was an invading army in China and russia,who by the way is the only country to defeat both.two reasons were they thought it weak to surrender and didn't want to take care of prisoners.

  • @mitchellgolston2726
    @mitchellgolston2726 2 роки тому

    Well Sam Walton helped he was a Army intelligence officer at the time .

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      @user-ji6xd7cl8x 2 роки тому

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  • @julietdelgado2193
    @julietdelgado2193 2 роки тому +1

    Humanity against humanity are all not good and evil. That's why what's happen to us now. Loads more evil people no care in the world. But there are also very good and very kind people but not a lot anymore your only counted it. Now were suffering this pandemic who knows whats nxt. We should all prays our sins and repent pray eveeyday.🙏🙏🙏

  • @andrewthurman8836
    @andrewthurman8836 2 роки тому +2

    As a child I took piano lessons from a man who worked with my mother at the post office. He was interned during the war. I overheard my mother mentioning to someone about how it had ended his musical career and impoverished his family. A

  • @taya____
    @taya____ 2 роки тому +2

    🥺

  • @roberthorst5790
    @roberthorst5790 3 місяці тому

    they also interned germans and italians but nobody is talking about it smh

  • @MyHandleRocks
    @MyHandleRocks 5 місяців тому

    Most of the interment camps holding the Japanese was on Native American reservations that the govt took.

  • @hagandelevira
    @hagandelevira 2 роки тому

    Sup Alex

  • @briannat1086
    @briannat1086 2 роки тому +1

    Believe the US Constitution guarantees your rights? THINK AGAIN. just privileges...

  • @wawee1979
    @wawee1979 8 місяців тому

    Why has this not been depicted into a movie? They've made Schindler's List & Pearl Harbour. I'm from New Zealand & have read Danielle Steele's Silent Honor & even in her notes say "not based on true events" or something. Is this an American thing by not owning up on things that they contributed too?....cause it happens here as well! Anyhu, that would make a GREAT movie!

    • @mikeaguero2875
      @mikeaguero2875 7 місяців тому

      You should be the first to make and direct the film

    • @f430ferrari5
      @f430ferrari5 5 місяців тому

      There are movies. They are simply not popular to the US audience.
      Go For Broke was one of the first. It’s about the Nisei soldiers fighting in Europe. Made in 1951.
      Farewell to Manzanar 1976.
      Only The Brave 2006. Pat Morita is in this as well as Tamlyn Tomita both of Karate Kid fame. Same with Yuji Okumoto and a bunch of other Asian American stars such as Jason Scott Lee.
      A more recent low budget movie Go For Broke came out in 2018.
      Can only hope a major big budget one comes out soon. I believe the only way is focus more on the Texas Lost Battalion. It’s the unit that was saved by the 442 Japanese American unit.
      This is a start. Another could focus on Solly Ganor a Jewish boy with a strange twist of fate. He wrote a book Light One Candle.
      He explains how he met Chiune Sugihara a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania. He’s the Japanese Oskar Schindler. He wrote visas for Lithuanian Jews trying escape capture from the Germans. This is another movie in itself.
      Solly shared how this Japanese man gave Solly some chocolate. The boy was naive and invited Chiune for dinner and he and his wife accepted.
      Chiune would eventually ended up writing 5-6 thousand visas to help save Lithuanian Jews.
      The twist is that Solly’s family couldn’t secure visas and Solly was captured by the Germans and held in a camp near Dachau.
      Solly said one day a Japanese/Asian looking soldier in American uniform came to him. The German soldiers had run off. The soldier was Clarence Matsumura. His family was being interned in Heat Mountain, Wyoming.
      Clarence gave Solly some chocolate and explained he and the others were Japanese Americans. This is more of a side story. The focus for Solly was about Sugihara.
      These movies could then spawn off into Japanese Americans in camp and also 442.

  • @filomenalompot4415
    @filomenalompot4415 Рік тому

    During the world war 2 the Japenese came to Philippines , some were good, some were so violent killing the innocent infants!

    • @D4rthsunny
      @D4rthsunny 4 дні тому

      These weren't soldiers.. they were Americans... citizens. most had never stepped foot out the states.

  • @oriolesfan61
    @oriolesfan61 2 роки тому

    It was tyranny and America's gun owners didn't defend fellow Americans from that government tyranny. Just one example of the militia myth

  • @LtRee96se
    @LtRee96se Рік тому

    It should have never happened.

  • @viciousvictortee1298
    @viciousvictortee1298 2 роки тому +1

    The most decorated unit!

  • @insightbytes2136
    @insightbytes2136 2 роки тому +1

    Coming to a town near you...

  • @christinashaw3391
    @christinashaw3391 2 роки тому

    Delightful! 💖🔆🤪

  • @shainemaine1268
    @shainemaine1268 2 роки тому

    ...so wait. If you win, that means you get to take down your internment camps?

  • @ChairmanKim
    @ChairmanKim 2 роки тому +1

    America needs to stop preaching about human rights and equality.

  • @gabbybliss5602
    @gabbybliss5602 2 роки тому

    I love Japanese I am so sorry this happened

  • @Lyork
    @Lyork 2 роки тому +2

    It is important to remember this shameful part of our history, and to build examples of the conditions in which these people lived, for future generations to see, however; why can't we also do this for our homeless in the U.S. who are now also being treated like criminals. Seems like we just keep making the same mistakes.

    • @f430ferrari5
      @f430ferrari5 5 місяців тому

      There is no correlation between what happened to Japanese Americans and homeless today.
      Japanese Americans were initially put into horse stables. Does the US government of today do this to anybody?
      Illegals are treated better than how Japanese Americans were treated.
      Shelters exist. They come with conditions and rules. It’s a choice where those homeless don’t want to follow the rules. They prefer to drink and do drugs and smoke or whatever.
      Bad behavior is enabled because too much coddling occurs.
      Japanese Americans are a perfect example as to how when you’re not given any fish you learn to fish for yourself.
      Homeless are about why do I have to fish when I’m entitled to fish to be given to me for free. That’s the mindset.

  • @bgbrthrswtchngu2012
    @bgbrthrswtchngu2012 2 роки тому +7

    Very terrible situation indeed, thrust upon those who didn't deserve it. Much like how Unit 731 basically went and did tons of brutal human experimentation on the Chinese and Russians living in Manchuria.
    If every country that ever existed had to read off its list of bad deeds, we'd be stuck listening to Bad English, coming from Africa and the Middle East.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 2 роки тому +4

      No, nothing like unit 731, liar.

    • @bgbrthrswtchngu2012
      @bgbrthrswtchngu2012 2 роки тому +1

      @@kevin6293 Absolutely right. Because unit 731 conducted themselves more like dr Josef Mengele, whereas all the U.S. did was literallt round up Japanese people. They didn't sew them together or give them smallpox or stick their bound hands in frozen water.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 2 роки тому

      @@bgbrthrswtchngu2012 and it wasn’t “very terrible”, certainly not compared to most other wars. It’s a sad reality of war that some civil liberties need to be temporarily suspended.

  • @olchat2012
    @olchat2012 2 роки тому

    Similar, I repeat similar situations happened to native Americans, African slaves, Mexicans, Hawaiians...

  • @anthonyhuerta8780
    @anthonyhuerta8780 2 роки тому

    One woman said. OUR SACRIFICE. MOST MILLENNIAL GENERATIONS and after have to MANUFACTURE OPPRESSION. Your just SELFISH HUMANS WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SACRIFICE IS.

  • @andromeda331
    @andromeda331 2 роки тому

    So horrible.

  • @FlugHerr
    @FlugHerr 2 роки тому

    Check out Australia today. Same thing different excuse.

  • @Mark........
    @Mark........ 2 роки тому

    American and Australian Chinese take note

  • @dewetmaartens359
    @dewetmaartens359 2 роки тому +2

    We all know that Trump is time traveling. As for Australia, going full circle, Trump strikes again.

  • @PAK.77
    @PAK.77 2 роки тому +2

    May ALLAH bless you for becoming voice of un heard
    !

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 2 роки тому +3

    It’s always easy to comment from hindsight but we weren’t trying to fight a war. There were plenty of German spies in the UK as there were Japanese spies in the USA. My Aunty was married to a man of German descent and he was interred in an Australian camp. After a couple of years he was allowed release if he had a family member willing to vouch for him. My mum did and he ended up staying with my mum and my sister who was only a baby. Dad was away the the Air Force. Was it sad, yes it was but it was war! Heavens, you had Jewish families being incarcerated because they were German!!!! Look what they’d escaped from. Later a lot were able to join armed forces if they wished. It’s sad, many were just ordinary citizens but, it was war and you cannot have enemies from within 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @tkyap2524
    @tkyap2524 2 роки тому +3

    If you were America would you have done otherwise? A contentious situation.

    • @shadow7037932
      @shadow7037932 2 роки тому +2

      Especially after what happened during the Niihau incident where Japanese Hawaiians helped a crash landed IJN pilot.

    • @tkyap2524
      @tkyap2524 2 роки тому

      @@shadow7037932 That episode was a push factor in the mass incarceration. Sympathizers could come from any one of them.

    • @NikoChristianWallenberg
      @NikoChristianWallenberg 2 роки тому

      joop joop

  • @matsteadyy1053
    @matsteadyy1053 2 роки тому

    Japanese American people their fight for American People and American Soldier

  • @HansDunkelberg1
    @HansDunkelberg1 2 роки тому

    The subject interests me, but I cannot watch this. The speaker sounds too vulgar.

  • @Californiansurfer
    @Californiansurfer 9 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤ 2023 Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara. 1947. Japanese Americans are released from camps and sent to Chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Bronzville a black community Great book of Los Angeles 1940. Enjoy great read..

  • @tommystunestoons
    @tommystunestoons 2 роки тому +9

    Apparently, my comments are triggering to some. It was a world war! Japan was attacking North America. How were Americans in Japan treated during WWII?

    • @nebag1
      @nebag1 2 роки тому +3

      America knew about the Pearl Harbor attack....
      That was the reason they could enter WW2 for economic reasons!!!

    • @nebag1
      @nebag1 2 роки тому +3

      It could be prevented, but it was better to sacrifice American lifes and enter the war

    • @garylee12345
      @garylee12345 2 роки тому +3

      How do you know that's what really happened !? Seams you'll believe anything. History is a big LIE

    • @andreweden9405
      @andreweden9405 2 роки тому +2

      I asked the same question! What became of all the American-Japanese living in Japan in 1941? They don't like that question because they have to admit that the Japanese were so racist that they wouldn't even recognize someone of a different race as a countryman! When you're the most open, generous country in the world, it's easy for things to go wrong because no other country is willing to experiment with what you're doing. But when it does go wrong, they're all the first to line up and criticize! It's like two people witness a horrible car accident with life-threatening injuries. One person does nothing, while the other person at least tries to save someone's life. But when the victim dies anyway, the person who did nothing will say "look, I'm better than you! At least no one died on my watch." Yeah, that's because you didn't even try to do anything! I hope people are able to see that that's exactly what's going on here. When you criticize a country for stuff that you know other countries have done (or you know the other countries have done MUCH worse), that amounts to nothing more than propaganda against that country. Why don't you look up how the Japanese treated the people in Nanking, or what did to early Christian missionaries, or look up the fate of president George H.W. Bush's friends whose plane went down in WW2, and you get back to me about the stupid internment camps. You can take this "documentary" and shove it!

    • @laecard1778
      @laecard1778 2 роки тому

      So, were german-americans also put into internment camps? If not that’s a interesting difference in treatment, isn’t it?
      And whataboutism doesn’t make something better.

  • @raymondalverez5999
    @raymondalverez5999 Рік тому

    Manifest Destiny's evil results = $$$$$$GREED.......

  • @alasdairmacmillan5359
    @alasdairmacmillan5359 Рік тому

    AWFUL

  • @TropicLightning-
    @TropicLightning- 2 роки тому +4

    Research Japanese Unit 731.
    Comparably the American Assembly center was a minor infraction.

    • @lilithiaabendstern6303
      @lilithiaabendstern6303 2 роки тому +2

      the US was aware of said unit and gave them a free pass after the war in exchange for all their data from human experiments on the Chinese - so what is your point

  • @williamminamoto.7535
    @williamminamoto.7535 2 роки тому

    What is not mentioned .. if my Grandfathers people were not taken... after Mid- Way... and the Canal..from August 7..1942... recal PACIFIC...the actions of the Japanese.. making it into the press.. film... would have inflamed the public so badly... they would have burned to the ground.. linched.. driven out of town... every Japanese on the west coast.... study ken burns... the dust bowl.. early 1930’s... read the “GRAPES of WRATH “... and watch that movie with Hank Fonda... John Carradine.,, And Mama... isn’t it a pity... that some create chaos... having planned it’s reaction.. already with solutions...🎺🎺🎺🐎🇺🇸📚🐰🇺🇸❤️😊👩‍🎨🎥🖼✍️✊☝️😃👍🐎🇺🇸🏠🎤🎹🎼Presidential Trump Task Force wtm Speaking Missourah Territory the Missourian Force From the Show me State..💦😹

  • @tillman40
    @tillman40 2 роки тому +3

    After learning about the Nanking massacre,
    Comfort women and Unit 731, I say this group got off ok

  • @Music-yq8qc
    @Music-yq8qc 2 роки тому +2

    Black Americans: "hmmm, that's it" ? Joking

  • @imone507
    @imone507 2 роки тому +1

    Is still going on with Americans in this country, 🙏🇵🇷❤️🌎

    • @andrewwilliams9312
      @andrewwilliams9312 2 роки тому

      Marxist inspired Critical Race Theory is an attempt to destroy Western culture and society by framing it's values as White Supremacy".

    • @andrewwilliams9312
      @andrewwilliams9312 2 роки тому +1

      "1 million to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast), 16th- and 17th-century customs statistics suggest that Istanbul's additional slave import from the Black Sea may have totalled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700. The markets declined after the loss of the Barbary Wars and finally ended in the 1830s, when the region was conquered by France.
      Hundreds of thousands of Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. These slave raids were conducted largely by Arabs and Berbers." see link. This doesn't include the Arab trade in black slaves.
      The Arab slave trade enslaved far more and continued far longer than the Atlantic slave trade.

  • @statesrights01
    @statesrights01 2 роки тому +2

    Thing is.. most Japanese there were in favor of Japan..

  • @erikapple8955
    @erikapple8955 2 роки тому +6

    How should the Americans have handled this? Its been proven that Japanese living in Hawaii assisted the attack on Pearl Harbor

    • @shadow7037932
      @shadow7037932 2 роки тому +3

      Indeed. Seems like every time the internment issue is discussed, the Niihau incident is covered up.

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 2 роки тому

      of course , then you lock up 120k people. The American way. CIA blows up towers in new york and America kills four million innocent Iraki's. Sounds logic to me

    • @erikapple8955
      @erikapple8955 2 роки тому

      @@mc-lb9dk im only asking a question. Just mentioning that Americas had genuine fears

    • @NikoChristianWallenberg
      @NikoChristianWallenberg 2 роки тому

      joop joop

  • @justamom85
    @justamom85 2 роки тому

    Too think this is the kind of thing they’re doing or preparing to do to unvaccinated in some places. 🤪😡

  • @j.b.4340
    @j.b.4340 2 роки тому +6

    It kept us safe. Hindsight is very convenient.

  • @SkyValleyStuff
    @SkyValleyStuff 2 роки тому +1

    Meh, their country attacked us. sovereignty used to mean something

    • @SuperTrumpMAGA
      @SuperTrumpMAGA 2 роки тому +3

      US had choked them 1st. then what ?? Research on this WAY MORE, can u read the books dude !!

  • @lurkingarachnid7475
    @lurkingarachnid7475 2 роки тому +11

    There always a saying,no matter how bad the United States gets, it's still better than many other countries

    • @Dollarkat
      @Dollarkat 2 роки тому +3

      Agreed. Doesn’t it just ache your heart to see college students saying America is no good at all. It’s a level of ignorance I never could have predicted. In fact, Its the last thing I thought we would ever let go of. Like no matter what would happen, we would still have America. Now?……

    • @jamesgreenldn
      @jamesgreenldn 2 роки тому +5

      I prefer living in Europe

    • @nebag1
      @nebag1 2 роки тому +1

      Bs!!!!

    • @misssamartypants
      @misssamartypants 2 роки тому +2

      @@jamesgreenldn Good for you… I don’t think I could handle so many countries on my border…..I like being an isolated Country. We don’t really have any history like Europe though!
      There’s pros and cons to both.

    • @formalbug5716
      @formalbug5716 2 роки тому

      Yeah but we're not better than half the nations we pretend to be better than. I'm literally in the process of moving to Vietnam. I'm doing dual citizenship so I can still vote. But I'm definitely not sticking around this shithole country any longer than I have to.

  • @MomentsInTrading
    @MomentsInTrading 2 роки тому +7

    Democrats. What’d ya expect?

    • @vicmorrison8128
      @vicmorrison8128 2 роки тому +4

      Hypocrite

    • @MomentsInTrading
      @MomentsInTrading 2 роки тому +1

      Heck- I left out- Democrats: The party of Indian slaughter and the trail of tears!