In fj.life.in-japan Kaz <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote:
> Daihard <daihardM3NO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<gF4Ra.61474$wk6.15635@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>...
>> Kaz wrote:
>> 
>> > Are those "japs" treated as a kind of human species now?
>> > Anyway, I heard that they were put in the concentration camps to be
>> > intended to be killed by the extreme heat and severely poor
>> > environment there. Those young "jap" males who don't want to stay
>> > there and die have to form such troops like the 442nd Regimental
>> > Combat Team and then had to dedicate their lives to rescue White
>> > troops and to surrender European fronts.
>> 
>> The loyalty of the Japanese-Americans at that time was (unreasonably) 
>> questioned.  The "young" Japanese-Americans had to (or wanted to) become 
>> soldiers in order to prove themselves as loyal Americans.

> AFAIK, many of those Japanese-Americans were originally from Aidu
> Wakamatsu clan, or Wakayama clan that had been strongly opposing to

Actually, some were from Tokyo.

MOST weren't samurai.

Mike