An event was held on Friday to honor Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American civil rights activist who fought against U.S. forced detentions during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/01/japan/japanese-american-rights-activist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #immigration #us #japaneseamericans #internment #fredkorematsu
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#japaneseamericans (including #GeorgeTakai) were in camps during #WW2 because of bigotry, fear, hatred, but the ⭕ facts behind the decision to lock them up, was covered up
The US govt and Office of Naval Intelligence knew damn well the 120,000 in the US were pro USA. And the Jpn Imperial Military did NOT trust them. This evidence was put in the Burn Bag. But in 1982, 1 document was discovered😀. Listen to #BurnOrder
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#japaneseamericans (including #GeorgeTakai) were in camps during #WW2 because of bigotry, fear, hatred, but the ⭕ facts behind the decision to lock them up, was covered up
The US govt and Office of Naval Intelligence knew damn well the 120,000 in the US were pro USA. And the Jpn Imperial Military did NOT trust them. This evidence was put in the Burn Bag. But in 1982, 1 document was discovered😀. Listen to #BurnOrder
#rachelmaddow
Episode1 of 6
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/a4d3618a-629a-49a3-b866-0858e58149ff/episodes/eebc4ca5-a2a2-418b-bebd-b84f7bc7d34f/audio/128/default.mp3
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, the U.S. government sent those of Japanese ancestry to internment camps in remote areas. Eighty years later, many see troubling echoes of that time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/wwii-japanese-americans-internment-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #japaneseamericans #internment #discrimination