Category: Japanese

  • It’s A Queer Game

    Japan has asked the U.S. to lift its trade embargo and proposes negotiations. Source: “It”™s A Queer Game.” The Journal Herald, 4 Aug. 1941, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-herald/134518616/

  • NEWSREEL: 11.26.1941 The Path to Pearl Harbor

    “On November 26, 1941, as US officials presented the Japanese with a 10-point statement reiterating their long-standing position, the Japanese Imperial Navy ordered an armada that included 414 planes aboard six aircraft carriers to set to sea. Following a plan devised by Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, who had earlier studied at Harvard and served as Japan”™s…

  • Rations Carried By Japan Fliers

    Source: “Rations Carried By Japan Fliers.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 25 Dec. 1941, p. 15. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129835435/

  • Antiaircraft Guards L.A.

    Source: “Antiaircraft Guards L.A.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 25 Dec. 1941, p. 14. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119973444/

  • Japanese Plan To Conquer World

    Source: Simms, William  Philip. “Japanese Plan To Conquer World.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2 Jan. 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/129840941/

  • Hilo Has A Name For Shrapnel, It’s ‘Japnel’

    Source: “Hilo Has A Name For Shrapnel, It”™s ”˜Japnel.”™” The Honolulu Advertiser, 4 Jan. 1942, p. 10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129831843/

  • FDR Orders All Aliens Regiser Again Over US

    President Roosevelt orders all aliens within the U.S. to register with the government. The focus falls on Japanese Americans who will be moved into internment camps, as it is feared they will aid the enemy. Source: “Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942).” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, 24…

  • Captive Inspected

    Source: “Captive Inspected.” Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 23 Jan. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald/129831628/

  • Don’t Memorize Japanese Names

    Source: “Don”™t Memorize Japanese Names.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 18 Feb. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/129830953/