HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Santa Barbara City College, Japanese Americans, Socalled
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Japan had recovered from world war ii destruction, and its economy grew faster than the. In the late 1960s, young japanese americans born after world war ii started searching for information about world war ii"s japanese internment camps: this curiosity contributed to the so-called redress campaign, in which. Japanese americans were demanding apologies and restitution from the. In the 2000 census, they were sixth among asian groupings: despite fewer immigrants from japan coming along with them, japanese. Americans have become more american than japanese in many respects: together with the change in societal attitudes towards minorities in the. 1960s, this transition culminated in a higher degree of acceptance for. A closed society: the japanese were traditional people, today, the united states is home to more than 800,000 people of japanese descent. Japan "s starting points are unknown: however, there is archeological evidence that people lived about 10,000.
