Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape civilization, 37-year-old Graves spends most of his time in the woods or on the cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...
Last week, he sent back his first impressions from Tokyo: "The Japanese here are considerably smaller than [Nisei]. One wonders that their war lords ventured to pit them against the Americans . . . until he remembers how they defeated the Russians, Germans, English, French, Dutch and Australians. . . ." The Colonel was pleased by the bearing of U.S. occupation troops: "I feel that America . . . will not be defeated ... by our anti-American representatives at Lake Success...
...Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard of U.S. patterns, the Japanese jumped into the blue...
...hardly possible to open a paper today without encountering some new phase of the gross cruelty and perverted enthusiasm with which so many of our "superior, kindly" U.S. citizens are persecuting and prosecuting their neighbors, whether black or Jewish or white or Catholic. But we seem, in California (of Nisei persecution fame), to have struck a new low in American idealism. TIME'S forthright report of it, "Nothing Personal" [Feb. 17), is to be commended. . . . To find a group of "white Caucasians" (both conditions a pure accident of birth), holier-than-thou, Nazi-principled bigots going...
...staffers are Nisei, the first to work for the Post, which early in the war had rabble-roused against all Japanese-Americans...