1. Japanese in the US During WWII: The other side of story Supplemental

2. Japanese Imperialism: Meiji Restoration to the End of WWII 1868-1945 Meiji (1868-1912) Taisho (1912-1926) Showa (1926- 1945 [1989]) 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War 1931 Occupied Manchuria 1933 Withdrawn from League of Nations 1937 2 nd Shino-Jap. War 1941 12/7 Attack Pearl Harbor 12/8 Invasion of Thailand 1942 Battle of Midway 1945 8/6 Hiroshima 8/9 Nagasaki 7/15 Surrender WWII (1939-1945) Wars with Neighboring Asian Countries 1894-5 Shino-Japan War Pacific War (1941-1945)

3. Japanese Immigration Starts (1890-) An Open Door: 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry’s arrival  1880’s: Emigration begin (more than 400,000 Japanese left between 1886-1911)  Two most popular destinations were Hawaii and Pacific coast if the US  By 1900 Japanese formed small communities within towns (e.g. San Francisco’s Japan Town and Los Angels’ Little Tokyo)

4. Path to the Pacific War (1941-1945) Right-wing Militaristic Faction controlled domestic and foreign policy in Japan  1940 Three-Poser Pact was singed win Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan  1941 Elementary school was renamed to National school (based on Nazi’s school system) to train desirable little-citizens  1941 The military moved into French Indochinese (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia)  causing the US to stop exporting petroleum to Japan completely  Pearl Habor

5. International Disapproval of Japan’s Activities Effects of Russo-Jap. War  International disapproval in activities China  Anti-Japanese movement in China  Anti-Japanese nativism in California.

6. Anti-Japanese in the US Anti-Asian movement in California  Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882  Alien Land Law of 1913: the law prohibited “aliens ineligible for citizenship” from owning agricultural land and possessing long- term Leases over it—targeting Japanese

7. The Immigration Act of 1924  limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the US (based on 1890 census)  It completely excluded immigrants from Japan and China.

8. Japanese Internment, February of 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of Japanese shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor  Between 110,000 and 120,000people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.  62% were United States citizens.

9. Irony: The US and Nazi Making Same Mistakes

10. Which picture was taken in the US?

11. Which train goes to Auschwitz?

12. Relocation or Concentration Camp?

13. Anti-racial Propaganda in the US

14. Anti-racial Propaganda in the US and Europe