Paul Ciotti: The story says it’s not legal for a country to curtail the freedom of some citizens just because other citizens are afraid. It may not be legal but that’s what happened in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When one Japanese pilot was shot down he got help in escaping from three Japanese Americans on the island. Later, when Roosevelt interned mainland Japanese American citizens in concentration camps, the traitorous acts of those three Japanese Americans was one of his justifications–that ethnic pride in some groups would overwhelm their loyalty to America.
>Surprised Japan never gets accused of being an apartheid state.
I think most informed people know about Japan’s policies but they don’t bother to try and make Japan change because they know most Japanese would simply tell them to go pound sand.
