**Google doodle is perfect today…especially if you read Wikipedia on the court case (Korematsu v US)…universally reviled as bad law (“odious” according to one constitutional scholar) and compared to Dred Scott decision as a “stain on American jurisprudence.” Universally except for the, uh current administration, which has tried to cite Korematsu v US to justify the Muslim ban. So a surprisingly topical Google doodle indeed – bravo, Google!
Helpful link:
How long until the Cheeto cite’s Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War as justification for grabbing anyone who speaks Arabic, Persian, Urdu…?
An interesting reminder that a President can order an ethnic minority population interned in camps and still be remembered as a heroic figure decades later.
How many Americans of Japanese origin were, in fact, loyal to Imperial Japan? Wikipedia lists three. Three.
FDR had a looooong record of achievements to place in the other side of the proverbial scales before his infamous Executive Order. DT…hasn’t. :dubious:
I thought it was a little on the nose. I’m sure they wanted to honor his 97th birthday, and important milestone. :dubious:
Which link?
There were the sorta-traitors, like Tokyo Rose et al., who claimed that they had no choice being trapped in Japan.
The only ones I know who couldn’t really claim duress were the Haradas. The best part was that this was Hawaii - which was exempt from internment. So if that’s who you meant, then there were no treasonous activities in the area affected.
There’s also Kanao Inouye, a Canadian (they interned people too).
I hadn’t realized until just a few years ago that Canada did the same thing with it’s people of Japanese descent. Even kept them locled up for a while after the war was over.
Prior to George Takei’s stage play and tweets about his family’s internment, I had been surprised on several occasions by adult Americans who had *no idea *the Japanese Interment ever happened. It certainly wasn’t even touched on in high-school history classes back in the 1980s.
How many states did the internments? I remember reading at least one governor refused.
And some people of German and Italian nationality, if not descent.
I’m sure racism played some role, but German-American is also the largest nationality in the US, so much like Hawaii the logistics are impossible.
It was mostly California, Oregon, Washington. Most of the other states didn’t have a large enough population to bother.
Hawaii didn’t intern people unless IIRC they had definite links to Japan. It wasn’t a state yet though, and it wasn’t the governor of the territory but the military administrator who argued that it would be very bad for the economy to intern a large portion of the population.
And of course the actual camps were nowhere near where the people originally lived but mostly in バム フック, エジプト.
ETA: it says 1200-1800 people of Japanese descent living in Hawaii were interned, of about 150,000 total (~1%).
Translation of that last, please?
Bumfuck, Egypt ツ
Years ago I saw a news item about the opening of a Buddhist temple somewhere on the west coast, I think Oregon or Washington state. The temple was named for an American woman who, during the internments, helped manage or hold onto the property ofa number of her neighbors of Japanese descent, then returned their stuff after the was. A lot of internees lost everything because they had to hurriedly sell homes and businesses for pennies on the dollar.
I’ve tried to Google search for this story, but my search is either flawed, or I’m remembering something incorrectly. If anyone here ever heard of this story, I’d love to read about it again.
New Zealand interned German, Italian, and Japanese civilian men in both World Wars. Their wives and children remained free and were able to visit weekly. Not every foreign person was interned so only about 500 people were actually held.
Australia did exactly the same.
And hope nobody remembers he was a Democrat.
FDR interned the Japanese, and DT has interned the Muslims. Oh, wait…