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Sarah's story?

posted 8 years ago by Kajohns49
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I have a question about the story that Sarah tells about when her family was in the Japanese internment camp. She says that her parents, who had immigrated to the U.S. before the war, were hoping for a Japanese victory. I had always been under the impression that one of the reasons that the camps were a stain and such a shameful act committed by the U.S. was that the Japanese who were placed in the camps felt they were Americans first.
I know this is "just a TV show" but felt this did not ring true.
Were the writers just trying to force the point that the Japanese in power now are such rotten guys that they mistreat loyal Japanese because of the previous immigration?
Was any of this in the book?

[–] ehaas-3 8 years ago

They were loyal, but it's not hard for me to accept that some guy might have made an anti-American remark out of frustration at having everything taken from him because of his ethnicity and seeing his daughter upset.

I heard that a very few chose to go to Japan in a prisoner exchange and a few others were stuck in Japan because they were visiting relatives when the war stared and were treated very badly and distrusted in Japan.

I don't know if that's true but it makes sense given the mentality of the rulers of Japan at the time. In the event of a Japanese victory, the whole Japanese American population would have been in that position.

[–] mikexmene 8 years ago

In the book there was no Sarah, and I don't believe they mentioned the Japanese internment camps. At least not to any degree that they focused on anyone in the camp who wanted one side or the other to win.