The Nisei soldiers "Y抓kもeSamurai", a story of heroes
By GUYW肌HT
SAN FRANCISCO — Into Tanforan horse stalls reeking of manure, sevまl thousand Japanese Americans we re herded here 37 "ai*s ai?o. "st nu^th some of tぉe加returnも4 to the site of餘old ,a(?et]radc, now a shQぉi)ing center, toi
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On tji^ Other haーia,-prising nil!tit)er oif Caliきor^ nians柳li聘ist th<e War* time impilsonm咏tofilO,OOO
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On the day bombs fellon jPearlttarboちa smallband of Japanese Amricaきin GI uniform met secrもtly in an abandon" buildhig under the tio萌n Gatも Bridge. Their扭issioil: To brush up on their Ja]ia卿e beforethもy f&nped out^e* foss the Pacific as U.S.
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tedぉeトindもnemy^linぉfti Burまwith an bSS team. Shigeo Itれゅ(^t aire^ei;Eing night in a shさ11hole with thireeもheinycoiri)S6S onAt-tu.
HoichiKu]bo sliddo^vn a i"OiieintoヌSiipゅcave, engaged itsdefeiiciers in a debatもaboutsamiirtd hoirt-01*, persuaded the加to rele-a紐theh*hostage"ndsur-render, Hもreceived the Distinguished Service Cross.
Although wonded,Ka2iu0 ICozaki refused toieaye his p的t on New Guinea for thre€l cruci汰ldays. He be came the first Nisei to win the Silver Star* ,
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Details墓ife also gWen on history, and the fallspecUnin In performing eachIc"* aadim bre"hln豕,Ida" bod7 Bhif-tinぁmentalconcentration^ and "tUude*
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Nisei t柳siatoi^QH Okinawa •() 3truckメ0W— the Japanese comnmi^Var-tiUerj^ mきi),おivネngihe pOSi-Uoivヌiidrきnぉe of eyery^n-emy gun on the island.
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that Was kゆt secret kt theiime:カut(]^ mill Wry neceーty and foir itiany yか ai^s afterward for reasons Jess cohviiidrtg. Be pause of theまrecy oli prejudices th:dved.Fr輝nkHachiya made fiye trips intono man,s land, persuaded welトeiit-i^enched enemy troops at Leytゃto surrender, before ?i sniper killもd him. Back home in Hood Rivei:,Ore, the Amei:ican Leぉi(mremケ ved his name from the hometown ho nor roH, unaware that he had won the Distinguished ServiceCi^oss
Once the secrecy wraps viwe removed, Jfoseph D, Harrington gathered the Pacificゃxploits of the Nisei into a forthcoming book, "Yankee Samurai," and this anniversary of the "relqca-tioriおa good time to bring them to your attention.
The story is filled with ih^nieさ.As war approached, their ndghb6iirs regarded yoimji: Japanese Americkns as eneinyagents, each with aJapaneseuniform hidden in a tnink, Actuaily,tjie Nisei generation had 'beco^ mei so Americairtized that oif the first 3,700 t昨ted for the interpreter co,, only l幼邻o" Japanese ivellき ough to qualify.
Noi surprisingly, the b昨t^ were Kibei,thー whose par纽t^ had sent tliem Japan for schpo!ing" a 6ust6mc6mmoinli^ cited at the tihie as Virtualproof of disloyalty-Ill the years since, thぉe men have proved thdrloyalty in ye it another way. If is他 likely tfiat Japanese Americans willever again be subjected to anything like the "relocation." But that isn,t enough.
By keeping the memory aHve^ the Nisei stand guard against something similar happening to any other minority. That kind of Ameri. can ism is hard to beat. (San Francisco Examiner)
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