The Japanese attack on the North American naval base at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 unleashed a fierce confrontation between two of the most powerful armies in the Pacific. However, the war immediately generated hundreds of thousands of civilian victims who were displaced or sent to concentration camps in different …
In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of more than 120,000 people living in the Pacific Coast states in10 internment camps. The order came just two months after the U.S. declared war on Japan.
Rie Watanabe was barely five years old when she met violinist Yuriko Kuronuma, who was already an established violinist worldwide and alternated as a soloist in several symphonies around the world. At that time, Kuronuma was on tour in his country of birth and the little girl was in charge …
On September 2, 1945, the Pacific War officially came to an end. Aboard the battleship USS Missouri , docked in Tokyo Bay, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigematsu and American General Douglas MacArthur signed the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Japan. In the months before the surrender and the dropping of …
In 2012, historian John W. Dower published a book with various essays on the history and relations between the United States and Japan. The writings in this book were already widely known and were grouped under the title Ways to forget, ways to remember. Japan in the modern world . …
At the end of 1910, the number of Japanese immigrants in the United States had reached nearly 80,000; in Mexico and Peru there were more than 10,000 workers in each country, while in Brazil more than 5,000 were already working. As the number of Japanese immigrants grew on the continent, …
As the war between the United States and Japan approached in 1941, the states of Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa had a population of Japanese workers that numbered around two thousand people. By then, immigrant communities were already fully established in different cities and towns and played a very important …
The end of the war between Japan and the United States in August 1945 did not bring peace and freedom to the thousands of Japanese immigrants who lived in various countries in Latin America. This was particularly true for those who had been forcibly relocated to concentration camps in the …
The book The Japanese in Morelos. Testimonies of a friendship 1 is a sample of the presence of Japanese immigrants and the culture of that country on Morelos soil. Alejo Ebergenyi was in charge of coordinating the 15 articles that make up this book and which are framed in a …
When I met Masao Iimuro personally, in 2007, I was already aware of many details of his life. He knew that he embarked for Mexico at the end of 1940, from the city of Nagoya, where he had been born 19 years before. He had precise details of his arrest …
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