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Seven years later, she was trying to sort out in her mind why the Japanese Americans were removed from their homes during World War II, and why her mother had kept it a secret from her through all these years. Jeni, a Sansei, somehow understood that these matters concerned her personally in a deeply disturbing way, but at the time of the newscast she could only ask the more immediate questions, such as “What was it like? ” How could she know that they were the wrong kinds of questions? ” Hers were not naive, childlike questions.
17. See Bill Hosokawa, JACL in Quest of Justice (New York: Morrow, 1982), 83. For the history of the JACL’s founding, see Hosokawa, 20–32. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), 246–47. Frank Abe’s documentary on the resisters, “Conscience and the Constitution,” was released late in 2000. com. See also Eric L. Muller, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
The counterpart in the Office of War Information (OWI) to the WRA’s Community Analysis Section was the OWI’s Foreign Morale Analysis Division. At least two of the cultural analysts of Japan (John Embree and Alexander Leighton), whose work was meant to help in developing psychological warfare against that country, also worked for the WRA. On the work of the cultural analysts of Japan, see John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon, 1986), 124–39. P A R T I PARENTS AND CHILDREN This page intentionally left blank T O Y O S U Y E M O T O ANOTHER SPRING* TWO SMALL KEEPSAKES THAT I HAVE TREASURED from the internment years have deep personal significance for me.