Talking about the American-born Nisei, the Los Angeles Times editorialized, “A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched.” Smaller newspapers chimed in as well. Fred Shiosaki’s hometown newspaper, the Spokane Spokesman-Review, ran an editorial calling for people like his parents to be imprisoned: “All Japanese nationals on our islands and our mainland should be rounded up and placed in concentration camps for the duration of the war.”
