If it was an “injustice” it was an injustice born of necessity. One reason the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was so effective is that there were American-born ethnic Japanese living on Oahu who were covertly surveilling what was happening at Pearl and Hickam and relaying that information to Japanese intelligence.
If there was bigotry involved it was as much because the “sneak attack” offended Americans’ cultural sense of “fair play” as it was racism against the Japanese.
Judging from the author’s photograph I’d guesstimate that it’s a sore spot for her because her’s was one of the oxen that got gored but the simple fact is it was a vastly more efficient means of dealing with the potential for Japanese espionage and sabotage than if they had been left running loose. And the same solution would not have been so effective against Americans of German or Italian extraction because, unlike the Japanese, their faces wouldn’t give them away. They could change their name or O’Reily or MacDoogal and no one would be the wiser. In the end it might have been the best thing for the Japanese because with the bad taste that the attack on Pearl Harbor left in most Americans’ mouths, there’s no telling how many ethnic Japanese might have been railroaded on trumped-up charges of espionage and executed if they had been roaming at large.
Do you have a number that were doing this? Estimate?
What an ignorant statement. Wow. Some FReepers never fail to "impress".