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  2. Japanese American redress and court cases - Wikipedia

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    Some 5,500 Issei men arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor were already in Justice Department or Army custody, [1] and 5,000 were able to "voluntarily" relocate outside the exclusion zone; [2] the remaining Japanese Americans were "evacuated" from their homes and placed in isolated concentration camps over the spring of 1942. Two ...

  3. 100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor recalls confusion and ...

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    Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.

  4. Ex parte Endo - Wikipedia

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    The plaintiff in the case, Mitsuye Endo, had worked as a clerk for the California Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento before World War II.After the attack on Pearl Harbor had soured public sentiment toward Japanese Americans, Endo and other Nisei state employees were harassed and eventually fired because of their Japanese ancestry. [2]

  5. Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, much anti-Japanese paraphernalia and propaganda surfaced in the United States. An example of this was the so-called "Jap hunting license", a faux-official document, button or medallion that purported to authorize "open season" on "hunting" the Japanese, despite the fact that over a quarter of a million ...

  6. Remembering Pearl Harbor in Lackawanna County - AOL

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    Friday marks 83 years since Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The deadly attack prompted the U.S. To enter World War II.

  7. Propaganda for Japanese-American internment - Wikipedia

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    After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards people of Japanese ancestry indicated a strong sense of racism. [1] This sentiment became further intensified by the media of the time, which played upon issues of racism on the West Coast , the social fear of the Japanese people, and citizen-influenced ...

  8. A legacy of valor: Only 16 Pearl Harbor survivors remain. On ...

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    Sailors walk amongst the wreckage of the American destroyers USS Cassin and USS Downes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The battleship USS Pennsylvania is ...

  9. Merced Assembly Center - Wikipedia

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    The Merced Assembly Center, located in Merced, California, was one of sixteen temporary assembly centers hastily constructed in the wake of Executive Order 9066 to incarcerate those of Japanese ancestry beginning in the spring of 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and prior to the construction of more permanent concentration camps to house those forcibly removed from the West Coast. [1]