Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Racism in Canada is even more virulent and vigorous than in the U.S. We have had pitiful pleas from Japanese-Canadians and Caucasian-Canadian friends of the Canadian Nisei asking if some pressure might not be brought to bear by America on the Canadian...
Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
...past month there had been seven, cases of violence against Nisei in the San Joaquin Valley. It seemed time for at least a gesture of law & order. Rancher Multanen was arrested, charged with "rude and threatening...
Shut up in an Idaho relocation camp for three years, Shigeo Nagaishi, a Nisei, heard many a story of rising anti-Japanese sentiment on the Pacific Coast. He was not frightened; after all, his roots were in Seattle. Before Pearl Harbor, he had owned a house and run a grocery there. Last week, Shigeo Nagaishi, with his wife and three little girls, went back home...
Some of the Nisei who have got or are getting a chance at renunciation are afraid that to be returned to the hostile Pacific Coast would be worse than being re-interned as aliens. But the majority of them dearly want to go back to Japan-even though they can see from their newspapers how their future homeland is being devastated by the U.S., how close it is to defeat. After the war is over they will be sent back to what is left of the land few of them have ever seen...