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  2. Himeyuri students - Wikipedia

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    The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

  3. List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II

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    This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.

  4. Japanese American redress and court cases - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Hirabayashi was convicted in terms of the violation of a curfew imposed at the time, which proclaimed that; . all persons of Japanese ancestry residing in such an area be within their place of residence daily between the hours of 8:00 p. m. and 6:00 a.m. [4]

  5. Megyn Kelly shut down a Trump supporter who said Japanese ...

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    "You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the President-elect is going to do," Kelly fired back in a raised voice. During World War II, more than 100,000 people of Japanese ...

  6. Japanese-American life after World War II - Wikipedia

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    Japanese became known for their intelligence, amiable relations, and hardworking ethic. The new perspective of this country changed American minds about Japanese. In 1952, this new opinion of the Japanese resulted in first-generation Japanese Americans receiving the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens with the McCarran-Walter Act. [8]

  7. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda shares emotional family story from ...

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    This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were ordered into internment camps during World War II, and the emotions have reverberated ...

  8. Okinawans in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    By 1908, over 8,500 Hawaii residents were of Okinawan descent. [4] Okinawans in Hawaii faced discrimination by the local Japanese community, who saw them as backwards due to cultural and linguistic differences. [6] Common insults included "pig-eater", and many customs such as the hajichi (Okinawan female tattoos) were made fun of.

  9. Japanese Americans blast Trump for comparing Jan 6 rioters ...

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    Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during ...