Word: nisei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whatever trouble alien Japanese may cause in the U.S., government officials seem relatively calm about most Nisei-American-born U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. At Camp Shelby, Miss, last week an all-Nisei group was training for U.S. Army combat service. More than 1,000 young Nisei were enrolled in about 125 colleges in 37 states, finishing educations interrupted when they were evacuated from the West Coast...
...typical evacuated Nisei student is Oberlin College's lanky, 20-year-old, bespectacled Kenji Okuda. Son of a former Seattle expressman, he was raised as a Protestant, stood second in his high-school class of 500. At the University of Washington he was Y.M.C.A. vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
Responsible for placing Nisei in colleges is the Quaker-inspired, interdenominational National Japanese American Student Relocation Council of Philadelphia. Clerics and educators set up the Council at the request of ex-Director Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the General) of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. Council finances come from private sources. Council director is white-haired, 66-year-old Carlisle V. Hibbard, who has Japanese lore (he spent a decade in Tokyo, a year in Jap-held Manchuria) and relocation experience (he worked with World War I prisoners of war). Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy sees...
...Japanese now in Government custody, we must realize, says McWilliams, that by rooting them out of "Little Tokyos" in three states we have helped to break the influence of the Issei (first generation) on the Nisei (second generation). McWilliams agrees with Milton Eisenhower (former director of the War Relocation Authority) that "from 80% to 85% of the Nisei are loyal to the United States." They must be treated accordingly...
...investigating (through FBI, Army Intelligence, etc.) the Harold L. Ickeses finally got some hired hands for their Maryland farm: American-born Japanese from an Arizona relocation camp. The young wife of the curmudgeon Secretary (see p. 102) had taken care to ask the neighbors how they felt about having Nisei in their midst, got two reactions: 1) approval, 2) inquiries about the chances of getting the same sort of help...