"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:4173C648.7CCC1295@yahoo.co.jp...
> anko eater wrote:
>
> > Was your father put into the internment camp?
>
> No, and thank God for that. You see, when people of Japanese ancestry are
40%
> of the entire territory's population, that made internment difficult in
Hawaii,
> despite the level of suspicion or perception of threat.
>
> Now, my paternal *grandfather*, who happened to be headmaster of the
town's
> school for Japanese, experienced what he later called the worst time of
his
> life. I am thankful that it was not even worse. He was not interned on
Oahu,
> and he was not sent away. He was, however, put to work helping to build
the
> local military facility, and his home made subject to frequent and
invasive
> inspections by military officials.
>
> Relatives of my grandparents' and parents' generation were also able to
achieve
> a fair amount of success, despite growing up in a foreign land and subject
to
> its unfortunate laws of the time.

Thanks for the explanation. Definitely those in Hawaii avoided being treated
the worst. Seems Hawaiian islands themselves are a kind of isolated
internment camps so they needn't have been imprisoned

> > And you were born in the camp?
>
> 23 years too late. Come on. Do I sound 59 years old?

No.

> > And then you desperately fleed to Japan?
>
> No, I came to Japan for better work opportunities than working in the
travel
> industry at home for nine dollars per hour, and a greater sense of safety.
I
> have also come to enjoy a greater level of convenience and reasonable cost
of
> living.
>
> --
>  "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that
I
> can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"
>
>