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America's Japanese Hostages The World War II Plan for a Japanese Free Latin America
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Thomas Connell
ISBN: 0-275-97535-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97535-7
320 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2002
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £72.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Connell uncovers a little known World War II top secret program. The United States demanded that Latin American governments deport—or allow the United States to take—anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in camps in Texas and New Mexico. The plan was to trade them for American civilians held by the Japanese.

Although Peru was the most enthusiastic participant in this program, expelling nearly 5,000 Peruvian citizens of Japanese ancestry, other Latin American countries participated as well. Connell traces the reasons for prejudice and discrimination, the specific programs, and the post-war efforts of those held in American relocation camps to secure restitution. Through the wide use of oral interviews as well as documents, Connell shows the very human side of this effort, which in many ways parallels the discrimination Americans of Japanese ancestry faced during the war. This book provides a thorough and intriguing story of interest to general readers as well as scholars, students, and other researchers involved with World War II and Latin American history.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    Setting the Stage
    Peruvian Hostility Toward the Japanese
    The Program Begins to Take Shape
    Diplomatic Machinations
    Attack on Peruvian Japanese Businesses
    The Rio Conference and Emergency Advisory Committee
    The First Shipment
    More Shipments, More Camps
    Deportees and Diplomats
    War Unites the Americas!
    Crystal City Internment Camp
    Uniform Proof of Subversive Acts
    Women and Children Last
    The Beginning of the End
    Changing Conditions
    Hemispheric Threat: Shindo Remmei
    Another New Beginning
    Final Legal Struggle for Release
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: THOMAS CONNELL is Vice President of Interlink Consulting Services, Inc.
LCC Class: 940
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