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

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   On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and into internment camps for the duration of the war.

3. History of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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   Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration .

4. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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   An estimated 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese nationals and American-born Japanese from Hawaii were interned or incarcerated, either in five camps on the islands or in one of the mainland concentration camps, but this represented well-under two percent of the total Japanese American residents in the islands. [197] "No serious explanations were offered ...

5. Japanese American prison camp site in Colorado is now a ...

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   Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park.

6. 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia

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   The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.

7. Japanese American who fought for prison camp survivors now ...

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   Ahead of reparations report, Don Tamaki, a Japanese American attorney and member of the reparations task force, reflects on fighting for prison camp survivors.

8. Frank Fujita - Wikipedia

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   Frank Fujita (October 20, 1921 – December 11, 1996) was a Japanese American soldier of the US Army who, during his service in World War II became one of only two Japanese American combat personnel (the other being Richard Sakakida [1]) to be captured by the Japanese. [2]

9. Families of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII stamp ...

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