Japanese Internment Camp Captured In Stunning Kodachrome Photographs

The internment of the Japanese was a terrible chapter in United States History.



There doesn't seem to be any logic behind the act, and it seems to be a completely vindictive expression of racism against the Japanese. There is a factor, forgotten to history, that may explain the action against Japanese Americans, though nothing can excuse it. The United States Commonwealth of the Philippines has been all but erased from American History. Events played out there during WWII, may explain the actions against the Japanese Americans.



We have all heard about the Death March of Bataan, and the horrible treatment American soldiers faced at the hands of the Japanese. What we don't recall is that in 1941 The Philippines wasn't an independent country, it was a possession of the United States. The Philippines didn't get independence from the United States until after WWII, on July 4, 1946. Let's be clear here, the Bataan Death March occurred on US territory. The United States had American troops and civil servants Administering the Philippines, These Americans were familiar with the Japanese community of Manila. They noted the odd exodus of Japanese women and children from the Philippines in the weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, They noted how after the attack Japanese merchants in Manila re-appeared in military uniforms with officer ranks. The Japanese had a sophisticated spy network in the Philippines that had been in place for decades. This revelation made Japanese in the US appear a threat.
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