This was eye opening! I knew of the camps in the mainland, my parents were interned. But I didn't know there were internment camps in Hawaii. Excellent documentation of an unjust period of history.
Glad that the healing has started. There's so much to recover. I hope the younger ones will continue to embrace their heritage and learn from the grandmother's and grandfather's. So thankful my grandmother who was of Cherokee heritage instilled a desire to know about my heritage.
Now, if only humanity would actually learn from their mistakes instead of repeating them. . . Well, we're already on the slippery slope. Just gotta catch ourselves and break our arms instead of our spine.
Sometimes talking about incarceration was too painful for those who lived through it. We appreciate those who had the courage to share their experiences with us.
Thank you for sharing - I just wrote a play about the Imprisonment of Japanese Americans - there are so many different stories here, so many individual people imprisoned and affected - these stories have been untold for too long. Thanks again
As the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi, we are sharing the experiences of Japanese Americans. Yes, interested viewers should do further research to find other perspectives on these events.
19:36 being Mexican American from an Historically Agricultural Town in California my Great Grandma Talked about loosing a lot of her Friends & Neighbors due to the Executive Order; our town lost 1/3 of the Population because of it
Wow, that's a huge impact to the population! Sadly, there was not much that could be done by friends and neighbors at the time because it could be viewed as helping "the enemy."
@@jcchawaii yea it was a Bad Time for everyone In general, our town was small & mixed race and everyone knew each other, all the Kids went to the Same Schools and unless they had a Trade, everyones Parents worked together, since The Major Employers in Town were the Fields & Packing houses.
Nice to see this as my headquarter were also Nishi Nihonganji. Get a bit fed up with the What the Japanese did to us talk from people that were not even born at that time. My father went to Kanchanaburi at the end of the war and paints a different picture of how people were treated. Officers on all sides with food and medication. Enlisted soldiers on all sides starving.
Japanese were targets enemy even if attacked at behest like Italy or Germany until Semitic camps copied placated Allies, Americans albeit double smart used their linguistics during & later on turning around Japan?!
You do realize that these were Japanese Americans, not soldiers from Japan? I was born and raised in Hawaiʻi and had both neighbors and a couple of our family doctors who were interned. They did absolutely nothing but be loyal Americans. Their sons served along side my dad, who was Portuguese American, in WWII.
This was eye opening! I knew of the camps in the mainland, my parents were interned. But I didn't know there were internment camps in Hawaii. Excellent documentation of an unjust period of history.
Thank you for watching and sharing about your parents. Many people still do not know about the incarceration camps in Hawaiʻi.
Excellent.
Appreciate your feedback!
Sadly a yearly later this should have more views. It should be shown in schools.
Glad that the healing has started. There's so much to recover. I hope the younger ones will continue to embrace their heritage and learn from the grandmother's and grandfather's. So thankful my grandmother who was of Cherokee heritage instilled a desire to know about my heritage.
Yes, we need to continue to share our traditions and stories with the next generation!
The more we know where we came from the more we know we are heading towards… without our history we can not prepare ourselves for our future…
Yes, very insightful!
Now, if only humanity would actually learn from their mistakes instead of repeating them. . .
Well, we're already on the slippery slope. Just gotta catch ourselves and break our arms instead of our spine.
My parents never talked about internment camps on Maui. Working at the sugar mills was not high ranking enough to be jailed.
Sometimes talking about incarceration was too painful for those who lived through it. We appreciate those who had the courage to share their experiences with us.
Thank you for sharing - I just wrote a play about the Imprisonment of Japanese Americans - there are so many different stories here, so many individual people imprisoned and affected - these stories have been untold for too long. Thanks again
Appreciate your kind words and own efforts to preserve these stories!
this is a sad but one-sided story, they left out the other side, you have to research it for your self
As the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi, we are sharing the experiences of Japanese Americans. Yes, interested viewers should do further research to find other perspectives on these events.
19:36 being Mexican American from an Historically Agricultural Town in California my Great Grandma Talked about loosing a lot of her Friends & Neighbors due to the Executive Order; our town lost 1/3 of the Population because of it
Wow, that's a huge impact to the population! Sadly, there was not much that could be done by friends and neighbors at the time because it could be viewed as helping "the enemy."
@@jcchawaii yea it was a Bad Time for everyone In general, our town was small & mixed race and everyone knew each other, all the Kids went to the Same Schools and unless they had a Trade, everyones Parents worked together, since The Major Employers in Town were the Fields & Packing houses.
Nice to see this as my headquarter were also Nishi Nihonganji. Get a bit fed up with the What the Japanese did to us talk from people that were not even born at that time. My father went to Kanchanaburi at the end of the war and paints a different picture of how people were treated. Officers on all sides with food and medication. Enlisted soldiers on all sides starving.
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Inouye said "our democracy" which is in error as the USA was raised up to be a constitutional republic where the individual has freedom.
Japanese were targets enemy even if attacked at behest like Italy or Germany until Semitic camps copied placated Allies, Americans albeit double smart used their linguistics during & later on turning around Japan?!
This was too bad but our men were treated far worse.that doesn’t make right but that’s war
What do you mean “our men”? These incarcerated were our men.
You do realize that these were Japanese Americans, not soldiers from Japan? I was born and raised in Hawaiʻi and had both neighbors and a couple of our family doctors who were interned. They did absolutely nothing but be loyal Americans. Their sons served along side my dad, who was Portuguese American, in WWII.