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...Larger Problem. In these camps are some 12,000 Japanese, both Canadian-born Nisei and immigrants from Nippon. Eleven thousand others have found temporary work in lumber camps or farms in other provinces. Of the 23,000 Japanese in Canada, only 431 have been interned since Pearl Harbor, 256 of them Canadian citizens. In spite of this record, British Columbians (and most Canadians) view both Nisei and other Japanese with deep suspicion. Unlike the U.S., Canada has not called any Canadians of Japanese blood in her draft...
...Nisei in Battle...
Sirs: We are just back from overseas where we were trying to preserve democracy for the very same people who say the Nisei should be deported...
West Coast draft boards got orders last week to start reclassifying their U.S.-born Japanese for induction into the armed forces. The announcement was not even of academic interest to one member of the Nisei, 25-year-old Ben Kuroki...
Editor Bill Hosokawa of the Heart Mountain, Wyo. Sentinel, a Nisei relocation camp newspaper, gets many letters from Japanese-Americans who have returned to American life. Philosophic Editor Hosokawa last week reached this conclusion...