jul 13, 1945 - "The Nisei Problem; The government has checked and double-checked these citizens of Jap descent, but some West Coast neighbors don't want them to come home." Yank Magazine 1945, July 13 Japanese-Americans Freed from Camps - (Japanese-American Internment)

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Yank Magazine 1945, July 13 - The Nisei Problem; The government has checked and double-checked these citizens of Jap descent, but some West Coast neighbors don't want them to come home. - Japanese-Americans Freed from Camps - (Japanese-American Internment)

Written with a sense of embarrassment concerning the injustice done to the Japanese-Americans and published a few weeks shy of VJ-Day. The article reports on how the former internment camp families were faring after they were released from their incarceration. 55,000 Japanese-Americans chose to remain in the camps rather than walk freely among their old neighbors; one man, Takeyoshi Arikawa, a former produce dealer, remarked:

"I would like to take my people back home, but there are too many people in Los Angeles who would resent our return. These are troubled times for America. Why should I cause the country any more trouble?"

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