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The story begins in Honolulu in late 1939 inside the meetings of a self-styled Council for Interracial Unity. The primary figures are Charles Hemenway, "father" of the University of Hawaii, and his prize adherents from the interwar period, YMCA youth worker Hung Wai Ching and a brilliant young teacher, Shigeo…
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When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, nearly 40% of the Hawaii population was Japanese, triggering hasty assumptions by America’s political leaders: collaboration with Japan, possible spies. Federal politicians wanted to incarcerate all Japanese in the islands, and those living on America’s vital west coast. There were rumors of dormant cells coming awake to overcome the Hawaiian islands.
Of more than 150,000 Japanese in Hawaii, only 1,200 were ultimately imprisoned, reflecting powerful community support, and earning empathy from federal decisonmakers. The small number of imprisoned Japanese-Americans in Hawaii was very different from along the west coast, where some 120,000…
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