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7:28 "Your first quest is eliminate 10 rats from the basement"
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My father, a Kibei, spent the war in DC working for the OSS estimating what the GNP of Japan would be after the war. My mother was in Manzanar camp and then in DC at the OSS also. But most of their friends fought in the war. When I was a child, one of his cronies from Hawaii brought me from Hawaii to Taipei to my parents. On the way he told me some amazing stories. He was in Burma tapping phone lines for Merrils' Mauraders, and later was sent to Yunan to translate Japanese communications. On his 18th birthday, Mao and Chou En Lai attended; probably he is the only american who can say that. Later when Nixon went to China he was remembered and invited. The war created some incredible challenges but also some amazing experiences and opportunties for these Nisei.
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I knew a Japanese translator who worked for the occupying American forces. He was born in the US but was on the last ship from the US to Japan at the age of 17. He did not speak Japanese when he arrived in Japan. He lived in a small village through the war and when the Americans became an occupying force. He became a translator/interpreter for the American forces as he spoke fluent American English. Later he became a journalist.
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After WWII, many thousands of Japanese immigrated to Brazil. We already had some here since 1908 but their numbers grew exponentially. Currently, we have the largest Japanese population outside Japan, over 1.5M considering Japanese nationals and descendants of those first immigrants. There's even a very cool region in São Paulo called Liberdade (freedom) where you have many Japanese shops, architecture, restaurants, etc. Quite a cool place.
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I started listening to you because of your semiconductor content, but i enjoy these historical episodes as much if not more.
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Years ago, I went to a WW2 memorial on Okinawa and I watched a video interviewing an Okinawan woman who was about to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff with her baby. The Japanese military had implored civilians not to be captured and to commit suicide. As she gathered the courage to jump off the cliff with her baby, she heard a man speaking "beautiful" Japanese pleading with her NOT to jump. She didn't think it could be an American so she obeyed and didn't jump. Unfortunately, many other Okinawan civilians committed suicide by jumping off what was to be later called "suicide cliff".
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Grandpa in the 442nd:
My Grandfather and several great-uncles served in the 442nd. My grandfather as a Corporal (w/ purple heart, bronze star) and eventually an MP, maybe attached to the artillery batillion- its not clear.)
...After going through the craziness of the Itialian campaign, France, etc, he saw DACHAU during its liberation. (can you imagine that? With his own family spending most of the war in 'camp', in places like Idaho?)
He ended up guarding German POWs, at a former concentration/death camp (not sure which: he was a shutterbug, but the pics I have don't show exactly where, though I suspect it was Dachau, which was used for that purpose)... He was a guard, whole they were sorted into different classifications- draftees, officers, SS, war criminals, etc.
Apperantly, He got along fairly well with a few of the POWS, and, as most were cleared of any war crimes, I think he may have identified with some of them as in: 'Well, ain't this FUBAR?', etc. (I'm paraphrasing).
Anyway, when my mother was a teenager in the 60s, My grandfather owned a wholesale nursery (for trees/plants), and one afternoon, a stranger came to the door, asking for my grandfather by name.
The visitor was a former German officer that was in town to sell machine tools (of course he was- what could be more German?), and had recalled that my grandfather, as a guard, had mentioned that he lived there. The German had brought a six-pack of German beer, and appearently they sat on the porch for a while and caught up, and then never saw one another again.
It's a great story... according to my mother and uncle, it's true. My grandfather would never speak about his time in Europe (which is common, appearently), but, I suppose that those were significant moments in his life and for that German ex-soldier.
So, wow, eh? I've been thinking about writing a history of the 442, using his life and experiences to personalize/ anchor the history.
Anyway, that's my connection to the 442nd. (I have some relics- a camera he 'bought' in Italy, an alabaster statuette, some photo albums (Most of which have been donated to an Asian-American museum- the Wing Luke- in Seattle)
-B
(One more thing- as a shutterbug, he had a ton of photos of his friends in itally- short-ish Japanese men sitting/ dancing/ flirting with lots of tall, beautiful (recently liberated?) Itialian women. He DID talk about that, a few times... Grandpa was pretty cool.)
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This story remind me that the conflict in WW2 and the cooperation after WW2 between US and Japan, which proved that human kind is kind enough to forgive the hatred and reach a better future together.
Wonderful story.
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Gookurosama deshita. I grew up next to Herbert Miasaki, his Ookasama, and their 3 kids. Miasakisan was mostly closedmouthed, except for his Kibei experiences back before the war. I had no idea how precious those recollections were until I went to the mainland for the University of California. Strange you must go to Kaliponi to learn what your treasures are!
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My father John D Ishii was one of them . US Military Intelligence Then 25 years in the CIA during the Vietnam War. He was at camp Savage Mi
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These history videos of yours are my favorites. Pleas keep it up and tell more stories like these. I had no idea about these brave men and their contribution.
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This one was great, one of the many reasons I keep coming back to this channel is the history I don't really get anywhere else. Thanks.
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With so many of your videos I feel like I am just sitting down for a boring history lesson but every time I find myself rivated and fully engaged. Great writing. This is probably the only channel I watch regardless of the topic of the video because its just always very interesting and I learn so much every time as well without it being tedious.
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Always high point of the day when you post. Thank you so much
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Loving the surprinsly different last couple videos, a nice change of pace from the usual content.
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As someone with an interest Japanese culture, this was an excellent episode. It's one of those stories that feels like a puzzle piece fell into place with regard to how history developed.
A language note: issei and nisei literally mean first and second generation. The "iss" in issei is a contracted form of ichi (one) and "ni" means two.
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I live across the river from Savage, Minnesota. I am a huge WW2 history buff, lived here most of my life, never knowing this all occured here. Sad how a lot of history gets lost. Thank you for covering this entire story.
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These Japanese-Americans who worked for the allied cause, only to see their family and friends placed in internment camps. Unjust.
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This is truly an excellent history video, owing to the depth of the information as well as the succinct and tactful manner with which it is presented. Great job!
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@blanchjoe1481
1 month ago
Dear Asianometry, I was born and raised in Hood River OR USA and I know this story very well, Hood River OR had a quite large community of Japanese-American farmers, many of them quite successful. In High School I went on one of my very first dates with a local girl. My Parents found out, and delicately informed me that it was their wish that I stop seeing her. Having never behaved in such a way before I was taken aback. No she was not Japanese American. When the US Government ( in a fit of racist paranoia as no German Americans went to camps ) sent the Japanese Americans to "...The Camps..." they had to leave their homes, possessions, but worse they had to leave their land, and farmland does not take care of itself. Often they would sell the land for a $ 1.00 someone in the area who would promise to sell it back when the war was over, and when they came back. The insult to their injury was that for some of them, when they came back they could not get their land back, or if they did, the land had been commercially raped, no fertilizer, no pruning, no care of any kind. The caretaker owners had sold every piece of fruit on the tress, year after year at top US Army prices, and making a small fortune. So when the Japanese-American family came back from the camps, and assuming they could even get their own property back, the farm had to be plowed up and started from scratch at great cost. Those who profited from the Japanese-Americans misfortunes were known, many of the more "liberal" or Christian members in the valley knew who these people were, it was a small world after all, and refused to associate with them socially or even in business ( some were even family ), and this is where my girlfriend story emerges, her family was one of those that had profited and my Parents had rejected her family. There was a deep, deep rift of feelings within the European-American community over this, it was a scar that lasted for many decades after the war.
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