Wyoming Concentration Camps for the forcibly relocated Japanese Americans during World War II
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“If you’ve never read it, read “Farewell to Manzanar”.”
“I was a big fan of The Karate Kid when I was young (as most 80s kids were) – watching it later in life for nostalgia, and picking up the story thread about Miyagi’s wife at Manzanar…
It’s an out-of-place scene in a kids’ movie, maybe; teacher gets drunk and relives old sadness – but they actually wrote-in that Miyagi’s pregnant wife was sent to an internment camp (and died there) *while* Miyagi was out earning his Medal of honor.
It’s all too sobering…”
“A while back I was watching an old black and white serial version of Batman from 1943. They’d hired one actor to play The Joker but changed him to an evil Japanese scientist for propaganda reasons. But the kicker is one episode Batman and Robin are in Gotham’s Japantown district and every Japanese store and shop in the background is closed and shuttered because all of Gotham’s Japanese citizens have been moved to internment camps.”