Kevin Farran
1 min readJun 21, 2022

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Great point Daniel, but 'Yes and No' not 'No and No' The latter being the definitive answer that left a person of Japanese heritage in a detention center/ concentration-forced labor camp, ie Tule Lake. Answers to question 27 and 28 were offensive to Issei and Nissei as the US had refused to grant citizenship to Japanese immigrants even if they had no loyalty to the emperor, but demanded they renounce their Japanese citizenship and offered nothing else. By answering 'No- No' the individual was deemed unloyal and put in higher detention within the segregation camps. It was not enough to uproot them, destroy and steal their businesses, they then had to be threatened with no status. Canadian and American governments should be ashamed of their behavior as should the governments of Nazi Germany and Britain in the Boer war (where the term concentration camp really took hold.) Casual reading: https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Questions_27_and_28/.

Or I would happily forward a copy of my historical fiction novel 'The Searching' . It is a Japanese American's search for identity during WW2. Also available on Amazon but happy to send to any readers with my compliments. Best regards

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Kevin Farran
Kevin Farran

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Kamakura based writer, lover of Great Danes, vintage cars, good red wine, bonsai and the Bard

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