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	Nisei Japanese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nisei Japanese Americans (二世 pronounced [nise(ɪ)], lit.
		Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States, including the Nisei were, forcibly interned with their parents (the Issei Japanese Americans) and children (the Sansei Japanese Americans) during WWII.
		Americans of Japanese ancestry were generally forbidden to fight a combat role in the Pacific theatre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nisei_Japanese_American (483 words)

	Japanese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most accepted theory is that present-day Japanese are primarily descendants of both the Jomon, a paleo-Asiatic people, and the Yayoi, a neo-Asiatic people with cultural influences from Korea's Goguryeo and Baekje kingdoms and Gaya confederacy, as well as the Sui and Tang dynasties of China.
		The Japanese, along with the Ainu and Koreans are believed to be largely derived from the Tungusic language group which is often speculated as related to the Altaic language group.
		The Japanese are not a genetically uniform group, as previously claimed, and the Ainu and Okinawans don't share the same DNA types at all.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_people (1198 words)

	Issei Japanese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, this was later considered to be a loophole, and so Japanese immigration was also halted as a protectionist measure.
		Japanese Californian farmers made rice a major crop of the state.
		Many Issei living in the western United States were interned with their children (Nisei Japanese Americans) and grandchildren (Sansei Japanese Americans) during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Issei_Japanese_American (190 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Nisei Japanese American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jerome Relocation Camp The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as persons of Japanese ancestry, 62% of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War...
		Japanese is different from English and most other European languages in terms of its writing system, grammatical structure and usage and role in society.
		The Japanese sound system, for the purpose of native literacy, is expressed in terms of syllables (or, technically, morass) rather than isolated vowels or consonants.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nisei-Japanese-American (979 words)

	Nisei Japanese American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the United States including the Nisei were forcibly interned with their parents and children (the Sansei Japanese Americans) during WWII.
		Americans of Japanese ancestry were generally forbidden fight in a combat role the Pacific No such limitations were placed on Americans German or Italian ancestry who fought against the Axis Powers in Europe.
		Part of Nisei Daughter's charm is the way Sone is able to weave entertaining anecdotes throughout her tale, a story which is essentially about what being Japanese American in the time around wartime America meant to her.
	www.freeglossary.com /Nisei_Japanese_American (599 words)

	A Short Chronology of Japanese American History
		Through the rest of the summer, Japanese Americans were transferred from the "assembly centers" to Manzanar and Tule Lake, California; Amache, Colorado; Minidoka, Idaho; Topaz, Utah; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas; and Gila River and Poston, Arizona.
		Nisei Fred Oyama had lost land he had purchased with funds provided by his father in an escheat action in 1944 which was upheld on appeal in 1946.
		The emotional testimony by Japanese American witnesses about their wartime experiences would prove cathartic for the community and might be consided a turning point in the redress movement.
	www.janet.org /janet_history/niiya_chron.html (2183 words)

	Nisei Japanese American: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 442nd regimental combat team of the united states army, was a unit composed of japanese americans that fought in europe during the second world war....
		The topic of Nisei (and not Japanese Americans per se) is part of the mandated high school history curriculum of many states, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Sashimi (japanese: / korean: hoe) is a japanese delicacy primarily consisting of the freshest seafoods thinly sliced served with...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nisei_japanese_american.htm (1185 words)

	Nisei - Early Japanese American Baseball Players
		The elder Nakagawa was a slugger known as the "Nisei (second generation Japanese American) Babe Ruth" during his playing days in the Japanese American baseball leagues and member of the Fresno Nisei all stars.
		Forcibly removed from their homes, entire Japanese American populations, the vast majority of which were American citizens, scrambled to sell off cars, furniture and any other large possessions, taking with them money and whatever else they could carry.
		While Nisei baseball continued through the '50s, '60s and '70s, the end of World Was II forever changed the complexion of Japanese American baseball.
	www.thediamondangle.com /archive/aug01/nisei.html (1739 words)

	Japanese in Hawai'i. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And in American public school, from the radio and movies, from other non-Japanese of all races, they learned goals of justice, equality, opportunity and the unique blending of ethnic cultures and pidgin language known as the local lifestyle.
		Political success is in many ways the symbolic culmination of the Japanese American saga - of the Imi's plantation experience, the wartime sacrifices, and the post-war striving for acceptance and success by the Nisei.
		But the Japanese American drama has not been totally played out The Sansei and Yonsei, the third and fourth generations, are beginning their own chapter of the Japanese-American story.
	www.hawaiiguide.com /japan.htm (833 words)

	Japanese American Archival Collection-Template
		In the area of Florin Japanese Americans found the growing of grapes and strawberries to be an ideal combination.
		Japanese American farming ingenuity and hard work allowed them to produce the maximum yield from their land.
		Japanese American Nisei eligible to serve in the military were classified 4C (enemy alien) and interned with their families.
	library.csus.edu /collections/jaac/imagelibrary.html (1159 words)

	Nisei Japanese American: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States, including the Nisei were, forcibly interned (interned: the japanese american internment refers to the exclusion and...
		No such limitations were placed on Americans of German (German: A person of German nationality) or Italian (Italian: A native or inhabitant of Italy) ancestry who fought against the Axis Powers (Axis Powers: the axis powers is a term for those participants in world war ii opposed to the allies...
		The initial training facility for the Nisei to prepare for their function was at Camp Savage in Savage, MN (Savage, MN: more facts about this subject).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/nisei_japanese_american (545 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Japanese people
		While most live on the Japanese islands, many emigrated to to various locations; predominantly Hawaii, the west coast of the United States, Latin America (particularly in Brazil), and Russia (Sakhalin, Primorsky Krai).
		The most accepted theory is that modern Japanese are principally descended from the Jomon, a paleo-Asiatic people, and the Yayoi, a neo-Asiatic people, with cultural influences from Imna, Gaya, Baekje, Korea and also from Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, China.
		Nihonjinron is a Japanese term referring to a genre of discourses that posit and examine certain unique characteristics, behaviors, or thinking-patterns of the Japanese people.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Japanese_people (564 words)

	Gallery
		Fishing boats left behind by incarcerated Japanese Americans were later sold for a fraction of their value.
		Japanese Americans being taken to the prison camps.
		Nisei and Kibei who had renouced their U.S. citizenship waiting in line for mitigation hearings after being targeted for deportation.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8420/gallery.html (715 words)

	Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California (Japanese Americans)
		Possibly these were students, or Japanese who had illegally left their country, since Japanese laborers were not allowed to leave their country until after 1884 when an agreement was signed between the Japanese government and Hawaiian sugar plantations to allow labor immigration.
		Researchers during World War II noted that rather than a normal curve, the Japanese population in the United States was bi-modal — an age group for the original immigrants and another for their children.
		This has influenced the ways in which Japanese communities have been organized, e.g., the need every 25 years or so to have facilities and organizations oriented to children, with long periods of time when such facilities were not needed.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/5views/5views4a.htm (884 words)

	Gen Kanai weblog: Fred Korematsu
		The conservative Japanese American Citizens League, the sole group representing both Issei (Japan-born Americans, forbidden by racist U.S. law from becoming citizens) and Nisei (their American-born children) had decided for strategic reasons to go along quietly with whatever the authorities ordered.
		Comparing the Japanese internment to Gitmo is an insult to the Japanese who were held prisoner - most of whom were productive American citizens, not un-uniformed combatants (the definition of spy from a Geneva Convention perspective, and thus not subject to the general rules) captured in a war zone.
		I hear a lot about American inadequacy, but not nearly as much about the fact that our errors are largely limited to "style" and don't have the far-reaching consequences that others' flaws tend to lead to.
	www.kanai.net /weblog/archive/2004/07/02/14h56m15s (1022 words)

	Japanese American National Museum:
		Nisei Voices celebrates the lives and documents the orations of Japanese American valedictorians of California public schools in the 1930s.
		Alice and her husband, along with many other Japanese Americans, were forced to leave their home and report to assembly centers around the country.
		Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and all Japanese Americans are ordered to abandon their jobs, homes, schools, and their country and report to the resurrected WWII internment camps such as Manzanar, where an ambitious camp commandant awaits with her plans for a convenient solution to the Japanese problem.
	www.janm.org /exhibits/store (3228 words)

	[No title]
		In this essay, "Japanese" means the people who were born and grew up in Japan, later came to the U.S., whose native language is Japanese, and who belong to the country of Japan, like me. "Japanese community" also means the community that consists of those "Japanese" people.
		It's not bad, on the contrary, it may be good, because her Japanese sounds very polite and beautiful, and not polluted by slang which young generation often use.
		Japanese is not her primary language, but it's much closer to her primary language than Arlene's Japanese.
	www.snorko.org /cyberwrite/eng103/students/akikon.html (4599 words)

	The Japanese-American Relocation - Thirteen Frequently Asked Questions - (FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Japanese in relocation centers could leave if they demonstrated loyalty to the U.S. and would not become public charges, however they could not go back into the military zones from which they had been evacuated until the exclusion orders were lifted early in 1945.
		Unlike the Japanese (who were concentrated in ethnic enclaves), the Germans and Italians were better assimilated into the mainstream population, and that there was no threat of attack on the West Coast from Germany and Italy.
		This is close to the 15,000 claimed by the 100/442nd Memorial Foundation, and less than half of the number claimed by the National Japanese American Historical Society, which claims 33,000 Nisei served in WWII but upon inquiry was unable to substantiate it.
	www.pnorthwestbooks.com /docs/ja_faq.html (1707 words)

	Japanese American Resources
		Japanese Americans Internment Camps During World War II (University of Utah exhibit on Tule Lake and Topaz)
		Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps (Race, Racism and the Law by Prof.
		See National Asian American Telecommunications Association for a more complete listing of videos on the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
	www.densho.org /resources/jaexperience.asp (854 words)

	Japanese-American (Citizen) Relocation (Concentration) Camp Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Masaoka led the call for drafting the Nisei out of the camps, and when the government agreed at first to create a segregated volunteer unit, Masaoka served as the unit's publicist.
		John J. McCloy was the ranking surviving individual who participated in the decision to relocate the Japanese Americans in the winter of 1941-42.
		No serious attempt was made to recreate the conditions that the Japanese attack created on the West Coast, nor, the reasonableness of the steps that the President ordered to meet the devastating attack.
	fas-history.rutgers.edu /clemens/japanese.html (1330 words)

	Mainland United States has never been bombed . . . WRONG!
		Fajita's aircraft was a Uokosuka E14Y1, nicknamed "Glen" by the Americans.
		For the Japanese — a major propaganda victory, one that made banner headlines on the home front and to some extent evened the score for the April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo.
		I believe that the American people's specific generosities in addition to "the generous attitude as a winner" may have led the fact that he was so welcomed.
	www.kilroywashere.org /006-Pages/06-BombOregon.html (2464 words)

	100th/442nd Research Center
		When the UnitedStates entered World War II in 1941, there were 5,000 Japanese Americans in the U.S. armed forces.
		In Hawai'i, however, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was formed in May 1942.
		Due to the stunning success of Nisei in combat, the draft was re-instated in January 1944 for Nisei in the detention camps to bolster the ranks of the 442nd.
	www.njahs.org /research/442.html (296 words)

	Japanese Internment in World War II
		Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
		More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.
		According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind." Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets as they were alloted.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/internment1.html (740 words)

	Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Crost explains that the Nisei GIs' service was all the more heroic because, while they were fighting for their country and freedom, their own liberties were from time to time in question.
		Many of their relatives were languishing in internment camps on the West Coast, and the soldiers themselves encountered racial prejudice while training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, during their overseas service, and even after they returned to America with many battle streamers pinned to their colors.
		The Nisei troops were known for the unique enthusiasm and cheerfulness with which they went into action--whether fighting their way up numerous craggy ridges in the bitter Italian campaign or battling in the winter-shrouded Vosges Mountains to rescue 140 surrounded men of the 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/bl442regimentalcombat (882 words)

	Advanced Praise for Nisei Voices
		As a result of her labors that stretched across both America and the Pacific, Hirohata was able to add brief biographies to each of the speeches: what happened to the valedictorians after graduation, during the war, and after the war to the present.
		It is also a tribute to the teachers of their schools who allowed these young Japanese Americans to be valedictorians in accordance with their grades despite the prejudice of the time.
		(In one case, though, the Nisei student’s father had to confront the school officials who were not in favor of having a Nisei valedictorian.) For years I have been teaching Toshio Mori’s Yokohama, California, a collection of twenty-two short pieces that reflect Issei and Nisei life from the twenties to the early forties.
	home.earthlink.net /~hirohata/review_test.html (944 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since the National Japanese American Memorial was unveiled to the public last week, many people have been asking similar questions.
		Mineta thanked the Japanese American Memorial foundation chair, Admiral Mel Chiogioji, for his leadership, and Cherry Tsuimida, executive director of the foundation, for building support for the project.
		Another award went to Leila Meyerratken, a junior high school French, Spanish, and Japanese language teacher, who inspired her students to put together the large quilt as a tribute to the Japanese American World War II veterans and to the former internees.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_07_06/news02_jpn_amer_memorial.html (1125 words)

	Building the Struggle
		One of the first large forums was about the United Farm Workers struggle against large agribusiness and corporate farming, and the role that Japanese American Nisei farmers played.
		The Japanese American Nisei farmers were small farmers, but often took the side of agribusiness against the UFW.
		They were pretty adamant in their opposition to the UFW because they felt organizing farm workers would hurt them the most since they were small farming businesses.
	www.aamovement.net /history/newdawn4.html (272 words)

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