For Japanese Americans, 'The Terror' is personal

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For Japanese Americans, AMC’s “The Terror: Infamy” is painfully personal. “We were a threat to national security because of the way we looked.” - George Takei

I was a child when I first heard about the camps, via fragmented, painful memories seldom spoken aloud. When they were shared, it was in a matter-of-fact tone that shielded us from the full brunt of the trauma.

Today, the racetrack is a shopping mall, but most people don’t know its history: Human beings in a horse stable. Eventually, both sides of my family were sent to a series of inland camps, where they’d spend the next three years incarcerated. It’s no wonder that, even long after the war, the details were difficult to relive.

Rose’s relatives arrived there decades ago. She thought of them the whole time. “My grandfather owned a saw mill, and he owned a house and a car, and everything was taken away,” she said. “He told the family, ‘This is probably only going to be two or three months. Don’t worry. We’re coming back.’” Because “Infamy” was intentionally cast with actors of Japanese heritage, personal ties weave through the series. Several of the season’s directors, writers and crew members are also of Japanese descent, including Josef Kubota Wladyka, who directed the first two episodes.

 

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jenyamato Brings to mind Woody Guthrie song - Deportee

jenyamato Another time America allowed rascism to overcome common sense & honorable decent behavior Much like today, fear was stoked until 'something had to be done' even if that meant camps with barest of basics History repeats itself ..

What shocked me in life was finding out this ever happened. Growing up in NOLA we were never taught about the . Internment camps... Jefferson Davis yes... But what happened to our very own citizens... Nope. Only when I moved to NYC did I learn about this.

FDR was a racist AND a horrible President.

I wonder how many in your audience know what the Japanese were doing to people like the Philippines, South Korea, and China at the time this happened? I wonder if they know that Japan was siding with Hitler?

Hold your own Nutz

Happened in 1950. Currently Asian Americans make more money than white Americans in USA. racecard

Oh my!

It was not the way you looked, it was war and you were Japanese Americans. Struck in an unprovoked attack in Hawaii by the Imperial Navy of Japan, fright of enemies within the wire fear outweighed reality and sin followed. Like MSM pushing the lie a US President is a Russian Spy.

For the cast of AMC's “The Terror: Infamy” and The Times’ jenyamato, revisiting Japanese American internment brings up painful family histories that are as relevant as ever.

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