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Japanese intern camps. Barabara ni naru Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79 Effective
Friday 22 May 1942 On this fateful day the evacuation ...
... None of them were Japanese. Because of the wartime hysteria and prejudice, many
Japanese people were forced to leave their homes and go to the intern camps. ...
... None of them were Japanese. Because of the wartime hysteria and prejudice, many
Japanese people were forced to leave their homes and go to the intern camps. ...
... mainly that of water treatment, frequently impacted the surrounding non Japanese
inhabitants of the area, mostly those in close proximity to intern camps. ...
... Where many of those in the Japanese intern camps were still alive to receive their
reparations, there are no living victims of slavery nor are there and Native ...
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Barabara ni naru
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79
Effective Friday 22 May 1942
On this fateful day the evacuation of 100,000(+) Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens during World War II were forced into incarceration (internment compounds). These compounds were placed inland throughout the Western
United States. The Japanese peoples of the greater Seattle and Puget Sound
areas were forced to leave their homes, schools, temples (and churches), and
shut down family businesses in Seattle's Nihonmachi (Japantown)
community area.
In the basement of the "Panama Hotel", at the corner of sixth and main street,
a time capsule of eight days of diaspora that scattered Japanese American
Heritage exsists. Because the Federal government acting upon President Roosevelt's signed Executive Order 9066, employed agencies including the FBI and the Army, giving those Japanese peoples only eight days to settle their personal affairs while processing
them for wholesale evacuation from Seattle's Nihonmachi community, and
forcing their culture into internal exile.
The internees were allowed to take only what they could carry with them.
All other items were to be discarded or left behind, such as the many
personal items placed into suitcases and trunks found in the basement
of the "Panama Hotel. In that darkened basement room, an accidental time capsule, can be seen worn suitcases and trunks adorned with travel tags from Tokyo or Kobe, along with stacks of other household belongings left behind 57 years ago when the American government incarcerated its own Seattle citizens and shipped them via truck, bus, and train to internment compounds like Idaho's Minidoka and yet closer to Seattle was the Puyallup Assembly Center.
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