UNSETTLING NEWS ABOUT NISEI IN AMERICA rippled across Japanese airwaves. Early in March, the government-controlled radio broadcast the impending evacuation of “70,000 American-born Japanese” as a case of “‘diabolic savagery.’” The newscaster editorialized further, “The viciousness of the American government in persecuting a helpless, strictly civilian and manifestly innocent minority will remain in history as one of the blackest crimes ever committed by the so-called great powers.”
