Word: issei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singers of racial discord might . . . get a better pitch from Hawaii where a gigantic Japanese population of Nisei, Issei, and Kibei have for years lived and worked amicably cheek by jowl with members of many other races. From here the hysterical nonsense of the Pacific Coast seems incredible...
...oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition. They felt a sense of loyalty to Japan and had grave misgivings about the flipness, the new and careless attitudes of U.S.-born Nisei. Pearl Harbor had filled them with indecision. Many wanted Japan to win the war, but they did not want the U.S.-the country in which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt...
...Kibei, young Japanese born in the U.S. but educated in the old country, found themselves in conflict with both Issei and Nisei. Most older Japanese considered them dissolute, domineering upstarts. Nisei, fresh from U.S. schools, considered them foreign-minded people...
...Japanese now in Government custody, we must realize, says McWilliams, that by rooting them out of "Little Tokyos" in three states we have helped to break the influence of the Issei (first generation) on the Nisei (second generation). McWilliams agrees with Milton Eisenhower (former director of the War Relocation Authority) that "from 80% to 85% of the Nisei are loyal to the United States." They must be treated accordingly...