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Tule Lake
By Noboru Shirai |
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Short Description
This is the autobiographical account of Nobory Shirai about his experiences as an Issei during World War II. As a immigrant from Japan, Noboru was particularly torn by between two countries. He was interned at the Tule Lake camp and describes experiences there with surprising frankness, including petty corruption, the day to day life and humiliations of camp life, and the more familiar story of Tule Lake resistance against the internment, ranging from passive resistance to actually expressed treason.
Description
Noburu Shirai was one of those rare people who chronicled their World War II internment experiences in Tule Lake while it was still fresh in mind instead of many years afterwards. The wealth of detail included in this story is amazing as well as the honesty. In one passage he describes the "cuts" the each layer of camp administration took out of the meat supplied by the government. First came the camp administrators, then the warehousemen and managers, then the truck drivers, and then the cooks themselves, leaving the worst meat to be consumed by the camp inmates. His story also covers the true divisions that fellow Issei felt as immigrants from Japan between Japan and the United States. Some took such an active part in resisting the US that they dismissed the Japanese surrender as a Allied propaganda trick when it was announced. Historians and interested individuals will find this story an essential part of any library about the Japanese American internment.
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