Issei And Nisei: Intergenerational Differences In Japan
The Intergenerational Differences of the Japanese canadian issei, nisei, and sansei
In the wake of World War II, The Japanese Issei and Nisei both experienced extreme racial prejudices brought about by pre-existing anti-Asian racism and fear driven panic from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and as a result became enemy aliens. However, pre-war intergenerational differences between the Japanese Canadian Issei and Nisei such as; traditional values, education, language, and age directly influenced the differences of the reactions that the Issei and Nisei had during the uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. . The racism and prejudices against the Japanese Canadians can be traced back to when Japanese Immigrants …show more content…
Many Nisei such as Muriel Kitagawa tried to maintain a positive outlook when the expulsion of Japanese Canadians first went into effect and tried to rationalize the Canadian Governments actions and had faith that they would protect the loyal Japanese Canadian Nisei.12 Like the Issei many Nisei encouraged Japanese Canadians to cooperate with the government, and have faith in the RCMP. However political and age differences within the Nisei society, caused some Nisei to react differently to the expulsion. Many younger Nisei tried to fight against the Canadian Government and refuse to obey. These Nisei experienced severe backlash from the Government and were immediately imprisoned or …show more content…
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other writings on Japanese Canadians-1941-1948. Edited by Roy Miki, 68-151. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1985.
Oiwa, Keibo, ed. Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei, 43-151. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1994.
Secondary Sources
Adachi, Ken. The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians, 37-62, 109-32, 179-98. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991.
Granatstein, J.L, and Johnson, Gregory A. “The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version.” On Guard for Thee: War, Ethnicity, and the Canadian State, 1939-1945, edited by, Norman Hillmer, Bohdan Kordan, and Lubomyr Luciuk, 101-29. Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War: Canadian Government Pub. Centre [distributor], [Ottawa], 1988.
La Violette, Forest Emmanuel. The Canadian Japanese and World War II: A Sociological and Psychological Account, 3-57. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948.
Sunahara, Ann Gomer, The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War, 5-116. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, Publishers,
In the wake of World War II, The Japanese Issei and Nisei both experienced extreme racial prejudices brought about by pre-existing anti-Asian racism and fear driven panic from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and as a result became enemy aliens. However, pre-war intergenerational differences between the Japanese Canadian Issei and Nisei such as; traditional values, education, language, and age directly influenced the differences of the reactions that the Issei and Nisei had during the uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. . The racism and prejudices against the Japanese Canadians can be traced back to when Japanese Immigrants …show more content…
Many Nisei such as Muriel Kitagawa tried to maintain a positive outlook when the expulsion of Japanese Canadians first went into effect and tried to rationalize the Canadian Governments actions and had faith that they would protect the loyal Japanese Canadian Nisei.12 Like the Issei many Nisei encouraged Japanese Canadians to cooperate with the government, and have faith in the RCMP. However political and age differences within the Nisei society, caused some Nisei to react differently to the expulsion. Many younger Nisei tried to fight against the Canadian Government and refuse to obey. These Nisei experienced severe backlash from the Government and were immediately imprisoned or …show more content…
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other writings on Japanese Canadians-1941-1948. Edited by Roy Miki, 68-151. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1985.
Oiwa, Keibo, ed. Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei, 43-151. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1994.
Secondary Sources
Adachi, Ken. The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians, 37-62, 109-32, 179-98. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991.
Granatstein, J.L, and Johnson, Gregory A. “The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version.” On Guard for Thee: War, Ethnicity, and the Canadian State, 1939-1945, edited by, Norman Hillmer, Bohdan Kordan, and Lubomyr Luciuk, 101-29. Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War: Canadian Government Pub. Centre [distributor], [Ottawa], 1988.
La Violette, Forest Emmanuel. The Canadian Japanese and World War II: A Sociological and Psychological Account, 3-57. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948.
Sunahara, Ann Gomer, The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War, 5-116. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, Publishers,