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Japanese Canadians
Title: Japanese Canadians
Category: Law & Government
Details: Words: 1396 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Japanese Canadians
The Japanese people of Canada have suffered much agony throughout World War II. Innocent people, most of them Canadian citizens, were forcibly uprooted and taken form their homes and sent to camps or labour jobs across the country. They lost their possessions and their livelihoods. All of this was done seemingly to preserve national security, which I believe was never a risk. There were no foundations for the fears that led to their internment. These …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…dollars to every evacuee who was still living, as well as other money to the Japanese-Canadian community as a whole. This final statement gives Canadians a "good ending for a sad story". No longer will politicians use "fear" to justify racism toward Japanese Canadians.
Bibliography
Roy Ito. The Japanese Canadians. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1986.
Roy Miki and Cassandra Kobayashi. Justice In Our Time - the Japanese Canadians Redress settlement. Ontario: Penguin Books, 1983.
Keibo Oiwa. Stone voices. Winnipeg: NAJC, 1992.
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