The Japanning of America: Redress & Reparations Demands by Japanese-Americans

by Lillian Baker

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936738146
• ISBN13: 9780936738147
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Webb Research Group
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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A careful look at the historical record

Author Lillian Baker has written several books setting the historical record straight about the treatment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans during WWII. For "The Concentration Camp Conspiracy: A Second Pearl Harbor" she received an award in the scholastic category from the Conference of California Historical Societies for "distinguished contributions to California history." The most readable effort may be "Dishonoring America: The Falsification of WWII History."Supporting Baker's work are luminaries such as Prof. Kiyoaki Murata of Yachiyo International University in Tokyo who was in the relocation camps as an "enemy alien" of university age until he decided to leave the camps in 1943 to attend university in Chicago, where he graduated and then returned to Japan after the war. Murata calls the report of the government committee on reparations a "falsification of history" and says that West Coast newspapers refuse to print reviews of his own book "An Enemy Among Friends" that verifies this history as presented by Lillian Baker.One is forced to wonder if the newspapers are pandering to the reverse racist activists or cynically using them to support their own political agenda.In the pages of Ms Baker's books you will see the details of the wartime groups, both anti-American and pro-American, and find exactly how their history has been hijacked by small-but-strident groups with an agenda - and the agenda is not concerned with getting the historical facts straight. You will see statements from many Japanese-Americans who resent the falsification of their history by "anti-racist activists" (more correctly called "reverse racist activists"). You will be shocked at the distortions, including falsified photos, that such activists have used to rewrite this history.The reparations committee was a stacked deck, loaded with types similar to Congressman Norman Mineta, an outspoken proponent of reparations and apology. You'll find that Mineta has constantly lied about his "war-time experiences." You'll also find that Sen. Daniel K. Inouye covered up and withheld from the Presidential Commission, the Congress and the Courts information about MAGIC (see below) that proved the military necessity for E.O.9066 (the Executive Order by President Roosevelt establishing the exclusion zone on the West Coast). On the other hand, you'll find that Sen. Hayakawa denounced the committee, calling it a "wolf-pack of young Japanese-Americans who weren't even born during WWII." Also, Dr. Ken Masugi, son of alien evacuees, stated that the committee's report "Personal Justice Denied" consists of (1) moral posturing, (2) intellectual dishonesty, and (3) political opportunism. Prof. Murata denounces the report as a "falsification of history."Naturally, Lillian Baker was a lightening rod for the anger and personal vituperation of the reverse racist activists, who would like nothing more than to suppress her documentation of that period. Unable to counter the evidence she has presen