"Today's WWII Internment camp remembrance day or some shit. I had a hard time finding out whether Americans/Westerners were imprisoned in Japan and the answer is:
Yes. Everywhere that Japan had control, not only for the Americans but for all the Allied white women and children. In Japan proper, they were rounded up and interned immediately. Some few were traded on the Gripsholm exchange ship. Those in Indonesia (NEI at the time) were likewise interned, where quite a few were raped, even as young teenagers. There are some Dutch first-hand accounts. There is a movie written by a survivor called “Three Came Home.” Likewise, there was an infamous camp in Shanghai and one in Manila at Santo Tomas. There are some memoirs from survivors of both the Shanghai and Manila camps which are worth acquiring and studying carefully. There was a civilian camp in the Hong Kong area, too. I don’t recall, offhand, where the Singapore civilians, women and children were sent, but they were imprisoned, too. Lots of these women died in captivity, of course, due to the undernourishment and intentional starvation diet. My friend Colonel Allen (R.I.P.), who helped with the publishing of “Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence ,” was a child with his mother in the Manila camp. He had horrible memories and nightmares of the Japanese treatment for life. His mother died within only a few years after the war, due to the “half-cup of rice per day” treatment that they had lived through. She would give her half-cup to her son, so that he might live. Heart-breaking.
Unlike in the American WRA temporary relocation centers from the declared combat zone of the U.S. West Coast Defense Zone — which began sending Japanese (even aliens!) out during the summer of 1942 to complete freedom in the other 44 states — Japan never released any of these women and children internees throughout the duration of the war until they could be liberated."
- Dave Brown on Quora.
So fuck 'em. For such nice, neutral people, they sure like hiding this fact and showing anti-Israel/anti-Jewish movies in their temples.
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