Comments on: Why Japanese in Hawaii Weren’t Interned during WWII

By: Wps

Wps — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:18:00 +0000

Grandmother could not possibly have sent anything to Japan from Hawaii during the war. Must be a family legend, but can’t be true.

By: koichi

koichi — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:09:00 +0000

Compared to the number of Japanese living in Hawaii though, it was almost nobody. Fewer than 2000 out of 157,000 total, I think it was.

By: Voila_adeline

Voila_adeline — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:49:00 +0000

http://www.hawaiiinternment.org/history-of-internment ,,,,There were interment camps in hawaii….

By: koichi

koichi — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:11:00 +0000

That’s a good point, for sure.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:55:00 +0000

Hawaii was not a state during ww2 just a territory. It only became a state in 1959. Therefore, I suspect the US gov’t and the law for internment actually didn’t/couldn’t apply there. Let alone the powers that be who knew interning all the japanese there would kill the economy, the agriculture, the merchant class, etc.

By: lacoste shirts

lacoste shirts — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:48:00 +0000

i heard stories from friends grand parents from china, korea, and it was awful. but i find that any races, there are the bad ones, and good ones, and am glade the nice japanese blood line get pass on in hawaii.

By: neildingman

neildingman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:25:00 +0000

Interesting article. War sucks big time. I saw a documentary on the internments on the mainland. What was interesting were the camps in Arkansas. The Japanese-Americans transported there were shocked at the poverty and lack of education in rural Arkansas. In fact, they felt sorry for the Arkansas folks because of their state of poverty and tried to help them out, when they could. The whole thing was just messed up. The folks in rural Arkansas even expressed jealousy towards the Japanese-Americans because they were paid better, educated better and feed better. Amazing how things were just messed up all the way around.

By: koichi

koichi — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:22:00 +0000

Her and every other Japanese person of that time supported the Japanese side during the war in some way… why blame me for that? Pretty sure there isn’t a family in existence that wasn’t involved in some way with some kind genocide in the past, yours included, but I wouldn’t blame you for anything anyone in your family has done…? Or, even if it isn’t blame we’re talking about, there’s no point in attacking someone’s family, no? People tend to like their relatives…

By: Strungoutjunky

Strungoutjunky — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:13:00 +0000

Yeah your great grandma supported genocide in china and the nationalistic death of millions of its own. You should be proud of her.

By: Jesus Freak

Jesus Freak — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:20:00 +0000

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