Europe Quote by Tom Brokaw

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing…

— Eisaku Sato

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by…

— Michael Ignatieff

Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going,…

— Adina Porter

Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in…

— Richard Cohen

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the…

— Michele Bachmann

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

— Tamlyn Tomita

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens, and confined…

— Neal Katyal

I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that mentioned that…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all…

— William A. Rusher

“The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service presents herewith the first attempt to recount historically one of the great American tragedies of the Pacific War:…

— George Weller