Word: nisei
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...whether the nation liked it or not, the Japanese-haters' methods were proving exceedingly effective. Of 33,000 Japanese and Nisei who had left war relocation centers, only 1,640 had returned to the West Coast. Of 60,397 still in WRA camps, only 1,938 had announced any intention of going back to their old homes. The rest, bewildered by the ways of their erstwhile neighbors and friends, made plans to go to other parts of the country, or just waited, wondering what...
...Hood River, still as anti-Japanese as ever, mouthed a rumor-white servicemen would demand the removal of their names if those of the Japanese-Americans went back. At week's end the honor roll was still bare of Nisei names...
...Nisei were not friendless on the Pacific Coast-many openly welcomed them and hundreds deplored acts of violence. In Woodinville, Wash., Kametaro Funai, just out of a relocation camp, ran up against the manpower shortage. Promptly, some University of Washington students came out to help him on his farm...
There were dozens of instances of friendliness: Ray Sato, a 27-year-old Nisei from Hood River, focal point of Oregon racial intolerance, received 30 reassuring letters from former neighbors when he decided to go home. When Bruce McGill, a wealthy Sierra Madre (Calif.) businessman, ran an anti-Japanese newspaper advertisement, he found himself virtually ostracized by other citizens, who promptly ran a second ad, welcoming evacuees...
...Washington's coastal White River valley, directors of an organization known as Remember Pearl Harbor League, Inc. ate a steak dinner, voted to boycott returning Japanese, listened with admiration to a member's opinion of Nisei in the U.S. Army: "They're all loyal to Hirohito...