Word: nisei
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...generation of younger photographers whose sensibilities are roused by the urban mess, from trash to glitter. Adams' work is criticized for being indifferent to the flow of historical time and documentary "relevance," a recognized exception being the photos he took of Japanese Americans persecuted in the anti-Nisei hysteria during World...
...hour of day or night the summons may come. Then the young Nisei from California must trudge down to the waterfront in Japan and pitch in at one of the world's oddest jobs: measuring dead whales. "When the mountainous carcasses are cut up, the stench is stifling," says Lawrence Tsunoda, 28, a marine mammalogist from San Diego. "As for the pools of blood, well...
Besides the astonishing new breezes blowing from China, there were some refreshing political stirrings in the air at home. In San Jose, Calif., Norman Mineta, a Nisei who spent two years during World War 11 in a U.S. relocation camp, was handily elected mayor. For a special election in Maryland's First Congressional District, voters between 18 and 21, enfranchised for the first time, turned out last week at twice the rate of their elders...
...former Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch, now President Nixon's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Further, in a state that has in the past shown hostility to Asians, 82% of the voters said they were "strongly favorable" or "somewhat favorable" to what they have seen of the diminutive Nisei...
...Japanese-Americans in dreary camps for as long as four years. They lost an estimated $400 million in confiscated property, earned no more than $19 a month in the camps. Although not a single Japanese-American was convicted during the war of spying, and many served in the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat team, which won more decorations than any outfit in U.S. Army history for its exploits in Italy and France, the detainees were not released until just before the end of the war-and then with neither apologies nor abodes to ease their anguish. More than...