Mass incarceration devastated S.F. Japantown. For the first time, we know how much

While visitors today know San Francisco's Japantown as a tourist spot, the area was once where ostracized people of Japanese descent went to seek community - because they’d been excluded elsewhere.
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[@kathydoi9768]

Thank you for producing this. Both my now deceased parents and my two sisters were interned at Gila, Arizona surviving intolerable living conditions. When I went to school this was never mentioned in U.S. history books , so I sincerely appreciate you reminding people of this injustice. Just as I believe all other incidents of injustice need to be recognized and addressed.

[@hyphydan]

very interesting that no one talks about Kibei, that all Japanese Americans sent their children to be raised in Japan

[@hyphydan]

Nobody tells you that Japanese got to attend College in the Midwest for Free during the War.

[@mei6044]

While incarcerated in internment camps?

[@hyphydan]

​@@mei6044 By 1943 they were free to leave the camps and go to work or school, as long as it wasn't on the West Coast

[@ciello___8307]

ok and?

[@electrolytics]

Wow. Now we know. After 80 years. Wow.
Who freaking cares?

[@ang5035]

very interesting that no one talks about US sponsored deportation of citizens of latin american countries of japanese descent to the US internment camp.

[@silentmajority8365]

Stop crying its 2024 and America over run with POC crime

[@user-ml1rm2fh6f]

Reparation…

[@drowe2]

Interesting no one talks about the Americans living in Japan who were murdered. I think Japantown would be a great place to introduce all the new immigrants as this would show them an example of how people worked their way up in America.

[@albertoserrano67]

You forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[@silentmajority8365]

Well those coming now are criminals and want free stuff
this week in Texas over 1 million in stolen cars in chop shop run by cartels

[@silentmajority8365]

@@albertoserrano67 You are forgetting pearl harbor and the rape of Nanjing
Battan death march and
Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, director of Unit 731
Surgeon General Shirō Ishii was a Japanese war criminal, microbiologist and army medical officer who was the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. conducted experiments on human/pows

[@silentmajority8365]

Those coming today are criminals wanting free stuff
This week in Houston
a chop shop run by cartels had over a million in stolen cars

[@hyphydan]

All Japanese Americans sent their children to be raised in Japan (KIBEI), many ended up serving in the Japanese Imperial Army.
Some were able to return to the USA after the war. Also interesting that Japanese Americans got to attend University for Free in the Midwest.

[@SCrawford]

Very interesting how the journalists failed to mention the history of how today's Japantown was created by the forced removal of Black Americans through eminent domain. And the project used Geary Street as a divider been the two communities.

[@silentmajority8365]

Proving diversity does not work
Why else would we have made separate countries

[@mei6044]

I know that's part of the history of the Western Addition. I'll have to read about that. Any documentary suggestions or reading suggestions?

[@hyphydan]

Ok but Blacks displaced Irish and Jews who lived in the neighborhood before Blacks migrated from the South....