It seems to me I heard somewhere that Daihard wrote in article
<ndoRa.81195$H17.24527@sccrnsc02>:

>mtfester@netscape.net wrote:

>> 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.

>Gosh, you're Mike Fester right?  How fancy meeting you again... I remember 
>you in this group from several years ago.  You introduced me to "Dead Can 
>Dance" if I remember correctly...

>BTW... a lot of the Japanese-Americans before WWII came from places like 
>Yamaguchi, Hiroshima and Kagoshima, too.

And Fukuoka, especially about one generation earlier to Hawaii.  I guess
the place of origination partly depended on the local politics and
economy in Japan at the time of emigration.
-- 
Don
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