Tag Archives: 911

Immigration, refugees and the gift of citizenship

I was born in Japan, but because my father was born in Hawaii when it was a U.S. territory, I am an American citizen. I didn’t have to take a test, and recite an oath of allegiance. After my family moved to the States in 1966, I remember helping my mother, who’s from a small […]

Reiko Rizzuto’s “Hiroshima in the Morning” is a powerful memoir

The media are reporting on how Muslim Americans are braced for attacks this weekend, because of the 9/11 anniversary. I know what that’s like, unfortunately, though not on the scale of violence and hatred Muslims are facing today. It’s a sad commentary on the state of American “patriotism” that Japanese Americans still get nervous every […]

Thanks, Michelle!

Thank you very much, Michelle Malkin. Thanks a bunch for writing your book, “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.” Thanks for trying to prove that not only was putting Japanese Americans into U.S. concentration camps during World War II the right thing to […]