Japanese Prejudice in Fact and Fiction

Japanese prejudice in facts and novel David Guterson's novel "Snow Snow" is about how Japanese Americans get medical treatment in the middle of and after Pearl Harbor and in the US. Guterson was inspired by a novel about a prejudiced trial of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. As his father was a lawyer, Guterson was able to reinterpret the real test that might have appeared in the late 1940s (Sherwin 1). Yasuo Miyamoto, accused of being killed in the book, was convicted because he had a different face.

Just like fictitious things in Guterson 's novel, Japanese Americans were often victimized of prejudice during the Second World War. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government ordered the detention of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of which were indigenous people. The government forced these Japanese Americans into prisoners-like camps and infringed civil rights. These camps are dotted in remote areas in the western part of the United States, it is a difficult place and the living environment is very bad. In addition, when they were released from camping, many Japanese Americans like Guterson's novel Miyamoto family returned home and learned that they lost their roles in work, property, savings and community It was. It is after about 50 years that the US government apologized directly for its behavior.

Despite hostilities and prejudice against the Japanese Americans in the early 20th century, the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 exacerbated this prejudice. President Roosevelt therefore declared that all Japanese people are enemy aliens, whether Americans or not. They will be transferred to camps throughout the country. There is no evidence that the spy activity of Japan and the United States occurred during the war, but by the presidential decree, the expulsion of 70,000 Japanese Americans and 4,000 Japanese residents was approved (www.thesierraweb. com, 1).

• Journalists, politicians, military authorities have forced the unfair treatment of American citizens from fear and prejudice. "Japanese Foreigners and Non-Foreigners" were ordered to report to the relocation center to evacuate from the "war zone" on the Pacific coast. This order applies to all Japanese and Japanese citizens residing on the Pacific coast and foreign residents. The FBI was unable to find evidence of conspiracy against the United States, but the press continued to print stories about potential damage. Approximately 112,000 Japanese were transferred to camps of the Western desert barbed wire and Arkansas wetland by armed soldiers