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Originally Posted by rusnak
Sorry, but no. That story has nothing to do at all with the internment.
More likely was due to the fact that the emperor of Japan attacked the USA. The anger, suspicion, and hate were directed toward Japanese who looked like the new adversaries. It was sort of like the California bullet train. It sounded like a good idea at the time to those in charge, and then it became more of a liability to those in charge when it became clear that they only victimized people who had nothing to do with the attack or the war.
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I was raised with the narrative that you outlined for why there was Japanese interment camps.
The OP story should have been in the linked article you had for a balanced view of history.
This is the first I heard of support of a Japanese combatant by people of Japanese decent living in the US.
It defiantly ads some legitimacy to interning Japanese in the US during the war and it was not all unrealistic fear based as I thought before.