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Ecofeminist Perspectives of Hawaii: Japanese residents of Hawaii during WWII

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Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona
USS Arizona

Compare the primary sources in the column on the left with the many movies you undoubtably have seen depicting the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Japanese enlist
Japanese enlist


Pearl Hasrbor, USS Virginia
USS Virginia



Read the account in Shark Dialoguesbeginning on page 156.

Investigate public reaction using the LOC link on the left.

3000 Japanese soldiers
3000 Japanese enlist

Pearl Harbor, bombing
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor



Then consider Davenport's description of the response of the Japanese residents of Hawaii to the bombing, beginning on page 158. Japanese Americans volunteer
Japanese take oath of allegiance to the US

Airfield artilery, manned by
US soldiers aiming for Japanese planes

and the pictures of Japanese men enlisting in the US army in the column on the right.


Japanese volunteering-medical check for US army
Packing up for Manzanar
Packing up for the Manzanar Relocation Internment Camps



Recall what you know about the internment camps. Investigate the LOC link on the left.

Write your analysis.
"By then over a thousand civilians had lined up donating blood. Pono stood in line ten hours just to give one pint. Japanese arrived, offering blood, and money . . . A blind Hawaiian couple gave two pints, then stood in line to give again. In hospital.s round the island, immigrant workers arrived, donating Chinese blood, and Filipino, blood of Puerto Rican and Korean . . .Diplomats, rich haole corporate men and planter stood in line with cannery women, salesclerks, and servants.... High-born matrons, debutantes, waterfront prostitutes still wearing cheongsams...." (158-9)


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