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Japanese Americans --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Reparations --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 --- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

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Immigrants --- Japanese Americans --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Civil rights --- Harada, Jukichi --- Harada, Ken, --- Harada, Jukichi, --- Family. --- Riverside (Calif.) --- City of Riverside (Calif.) --- Race relations --- History --- Indo, Ken,

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From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans—one in four U.S.-born Nisei—came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S. and Japan. Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire. From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing, these individuals redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants.

Japanese Americans --- Citizenship --- History --- Japan --- Colonies --- American West. --- Citizenship. --- Diaspora. --- Immigration. --- Japanese American. --- Kibei. --- Migration. --- Nisei. --- Pacific. --- World War II.

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Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came to realize that it was more than just a personal choice; it was a matter of basic human rights. After refusing to leave for incarceration when ordered, Korematsu was eventually arrested and convicted of a federal crime before being sent to the internment camp at Topaz, Utah.He appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which, in one of the most infamous cases in American legal history, upheld the wartime orders. Forty years later, in the early 1980s, a team of young attorneys resurrected Korematsu’s case. This time, Korematsu was victorious, and his conviction was overturned, helping to pave the way for Japanese American redress. Lorraine Bannai, who was a young attorney on that legal team, combines insider knowledge of the case with extensive archival research, personal letters, and unprecedented access to Korematsu his family, and close friends. She uncovers the inspiring story of a humble, soft-spoken man who fought tirelessly against human rights abuses long after he was exonerated. In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Korematsu the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Japanese Americans --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Evacuation and relocation --- Civil rights --- History --- Korematsu, Fred, --- Korematsu, Toyosaburo, --- Korematsu, Toy, --- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. --- Forced removal of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 --- Forced removal of civilians --- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. --- Trials, litigation, etc.

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Traces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese AmericansAs one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. In Japanese American Ethnicity, Takeyuki Tsuda explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. He also places Japanese Americans in transnational and diasporic context and analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through the example of taiko drumming ensembles. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with Japanese Americans in San Diego and Phoenix, Tsuda argues that the ethnicity of immigrant-descent minorities does not simply follow a linear trajectory. Increasing cultural assimilation does not always erode the significance of ethnic heritage and identity over the generations. Instead, each new generation of Japanese Americans has negotiated its own ethnic positionality in different ways. Young Japanese Americans today are reviving their cultural heritage and embracing its salience in their daily lives more than the previous generations. This book demonstrates how culturally assimilated minorities can simultaneously maintain their ancestral cultures or even actively recover their lost ethnic heritage.

Japanese Americans --- Taiko (Drum ensemble) --- Children of immigrants --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- Percussion ensembles --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Ethnology --- Japanese --- Ethnic identity. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Social life and customs. --- Racial identity. --- History. --- Race identity --- United States --- Japan --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Immigration --- Race question