Video from the Topaz, Utah, Japanese internment camp during WWII
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- Dave Tatsuno smuggled a video camera into the Japanese internment camp while he was staying in Topaz, Utah, from 1942 to 1945. This video contains segments of the full 48-minute film, courtesy of the special collections section of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah.
The man explained while his father sweeping said "old generation like to keep things clean". Partially right. But real reason for this is ATARIMAE. If any of you come to Japan, please check around the streets in the early morning. You will see many people sweeping around his or hers house sweeping including public streets(especially in the housing area) just like an old man on this picture. This is why Japan is very clean because of people like an old man on this film. They get it. IF one person clean around one's house and next door do the same and so on. You will have a very clean town, city, country and this is just ATARIMAE(common sense, courtesy) for Japanese especially for older generation.
something that we didn't follow
Interesting! I have photos of my American grandparents with brooms on their porches too. My mother, born in 1950 (non-Japanese) sweeps porches too. Americans cared about being "put together" with their homes and clothing more then too.
Dave Tatsuno's film should be shown to students who read Yoshiko Uchida's book Journey to Topaz. The book provides a memorable story, but the film will allow the students another medium to access this dark chapter in America's
past.
It's a great book! WWII left dark stains on every country involved. Fear. Racism. Prejudice. Propaganda in media. It was a terrible time.
My husband was born there in 43. His parents had an antique store in SFO when they were taken to Topaz. Of course their business and possessions were never recovered. My husband and his parents each received a check for 20K under Clinton's reparation for all those who were interned there. My husband was greatly surprised and glad to see this video. Thank you.
It wasn’t “Clinton’s” reparations. The Civil Rights Act of 1988 was signed by Republican Ronald Reagan.
If you look at the picture of the signing, all the non-Japanese politicians are also Republican.
Executive Order 9066 on Feb 26, 1942 was done by Democrat Roosevelt.
Most monies and apology letters came from Bush. Since most was disbursed between 1990-1992.
Clinton took care of those who were mainly children in the camps.
If one died before the CRA 1988 then unfortunately nobody got anything.
The reparations were approved under the Reagan administration, not Clinton.
My mother and her family were internees at Topaz. This is a fascinating and poignant film. Part of me can't wait to show my mother, and another part of me doesn't want to see her cry. Thank you for sharing.
Jan, you have to do this. Bless your heart.
They probably knew my husband's parents. My husband was born there. Jim and Nobu Kajiwara were his parents.
Thank you for uploading this. My Grandma was interned @ Topaz.
thank you for this.
Rumor Has It (RHI) - I have a friend that was in Manzanar. My father was at Omaha Beach. My father and uncles were UDT - Underwater Demolition Team during WW II. These camps were not the greatest - but were better than what was happening to "citizens" in Europe, Phillipines, India, Africa, and South America. And POWs - a whole story that "mythdusterds" will see is very disturbing - especially what the Japanese did in China. War sucks - there are winners and losers. If we lost - you would not have been able to see this film.
I've been to the museum in Delta and the actual site where the camp was. Not much left except nails and pipes coming out of the ground. The place has a very uncomfortable vibe because I was thinking about all the horrors that happen out there.
Very moving and educational.
Thank you so much for the wonderful film. I wonder if even though it was terrible putting these people in a "camp", were they safer there? I am sure that there was a lot of animosity from the general population after Pearl Harbor.
Thanks for uploading this. This is helpful for my World War II Seminar class I am doing now. I am looking at the differences between the internees to the Axis POW's in America and looking at how both were treated based on the fact they were both supported by the U.S. government.
A nit, but there were no video cameras for another 20 years at least. It was a moving film camera, a movie camera, using film.
I was surprised to see that there was ice at this internment camp. When I was born in the camp at Poston, Arizona there it was hot. I was glad to move to East Cleveland when the Japanese-Americans were released.
That's very loving, for family to come back to visit and check in. Correction 3 yrs. That's a long time
Had an awesome interview with this exceptional survivor of the INTERNMENT CAMPS: th-cam.com/video/wWAlfdyjahM/w-d-xo.html
Except for the period of Slavery in the US, the incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent is the most shameful period of American History.. Every citizen should remember what can happen in a period of panic. I fear we got close to this happening after 9/11
Roger Mullins great comment and so true
Actually, what the “US Government” did here was probably the most unconstitutional act ever.
Nobody in the US government declared that slavery was now legal and all blacks were slaves.
The issue with slavery that it was practiced by many countries. There were Japanese slaves being traded too by Portuguese.
Hideyoshi Toyotomi banned slavery in Japan in 1590.
Other acts of injustice and pure racial discrimination was the Chinese Exclusion Act and Asian Exclusion Act.
Asians were banned from becoming naturalized citizens.
It’s pretty sad most don’t know this and is not really taught by the liberal education system.
@mythdusterds. Man we Americans really treated them the Germans and Italians really really poorly so please you don't have much to be proud of let ur class know that and please do more research this video is ok but please do more
It was wrong from from the 20,000' view of history. The fears were legitimate at the time. Sadly a tragic blight in our history for sure
It is wonderful that he had his camera with him to take these pictures and to have this archive for everybody to see, this terrible tragedy which happened to so many Japanese-Americans, on the west coast, by the United States government which should have never happened. Again, big thanks to him for this wonderful archive for the future generations can see and know this event, and so the American government would never do something like this again, thanks.
also a terrible tragedy was all the young americans drafted and sent to camps like this to train, before being sent overseas to die.. spending the war in a camp like this was a great assignment to the ypung men in the military..so while inconvenient.. none of these internees had to die.
sad
"In America, we have rights." Oh....wait.....guess not.
Our country is full of skeletons in the closet and we look at other countries and act that we are so much better! I just found out about Topaz today and Utah is my birth state shake on Utah and the us government!!!
Heck if that happened now it would start world war 3
↘You're right jliscorpio.
These where Americans and it's a shame
notice the people dont look very sad, life there was not so bad, except for the weather, it was after all war time, and everyone sufferd, my parents in chicago had to stand in line for bread and meat with ration stamps. they had more food in the camps than many americans so get over it.
Terry Frederickson really? Get over it? They were forced out of their homes. Lost there business and their homes. This is a shame in our country. In 1988 we admitted it and paid them back (sort of). There is no shame in admitting we were wrong. This was wrong.
My family had been in the US for three generations when they were relocated, lost their homes, businesses, land, and all property, for which they never received compensation. The women, children, and elderly remained in the camp, while the men either enlisted or were drafted. They were 8 to a room, with no kitchen or bathroom facilities in the barracks. Food shortages occurred because of suspected diversion to the black market. The buildings were so poorly constructed that dust and sand blew in during the summer, and snow during the winter. After the war, none of them ever spoke of the internment or complained about it. However, I will never get over it.
Lmfao u never experienced what it was like to be forced out of ur home and to leave basically all of ur belongings behind, u never had to be treated like the enemy when u were a freaking American citizen, and u never had to be forced to stay in the same place without leaving for years. Shut tf up, how can u judge what they experienced for years through a couple min video? Oh, they don’t look very sad? U must be shallow af to expect them to be crying every single day and frowning. Of course they’re sad, but they persevered and continued to try to live their lives as best as they could even though they were behind barbed wire and soldiers watched their every move.
@@tydickson9645 Yup, my husband's parents had a SFO antique store. Business and its possessions never given back. He was born in there in 43. He was 4 when they left, but still has memories.
It was wrong. Yes it could have been a lot worse; they could have been living in the same conditions as people in Auschwitz, but it was still wrong.