Word: nisei
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...serious, spectacled G.I. politely asked a Filipino for directions. His only answer: "Shut up! We don't talk to Japs. We don't like you around here." Staff Sergeant Masami Hayashi, of the Army of the United States, shrugged and walked on. Like a hundred other Nisei in the Philippines, he Was rubbed raw almost daily by Filipinos' hostility. All he could do was to wish desperately that somebody in authority would tell the Filipinos what Americans of Japanese ancestry had achieved in the war, how they had proved their once-questioned loyalty...
...Nisei could well be proud of their record. Many had distinguished themselves in combat-most notably in Italy.* But more important to victory in the Pacific had been the work of Japanese-Americans who had translated and analyzed thousands of captured Jap documents, crossed no man's land to talk Japs out of their caves, interviewed prisoners to get information. As their worth was proved, they had gradually advanced from rear-area assignments to the front lines, where they were in double jeopardy-from the enemy, and from fellow G.I.s who mistook them for the enemy. The Army Command...
...last week, as the Japanese general rose to defend himself, spectators began to experience an uneasy perplexity. The chunky Japanese neither cringed nor swaggered. He bowed politely to the five U.S. generals sitting as judges. With ponderous dignity he instructed the Nisei interpreter: "Yamashita wants no mistakes. On long sentences I will repeat them twice. Listen carefully." Then he seated himself in the witness chair, denied that he had ever known of Philippine atrocities, much less condoned or ordered them...
West Coast anti-Nisei prejudice (see cut). It gave promise that in peace, as in war, young Bill Mauldin might be something better than...
...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...