During the early years of World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes on the West Coast because military leaders and public opinion combined to fan unproven fears of sabo
Boy Scouts at the Granada War Relocation Center raise the flag to half-staff during a Memorial Service for the first six Nisei soldiers from this Center who were killed in action in Italy. The service was attended by 1,500 Amache internees on August 5, 1944.
A U.S. soldier and his mother in Florin, Sacramento County, California
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Painting depicting soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team fighting in the Vosges
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Nisei is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants, or Issei. The Ni
Japanese-American service in World War II
…homes on the West Coast because military leaders and public opinion combined to fan unproven fears of sabotage. As the war progressed, many of the young Nisei, Japanese immigrants' children who were born with American citizenship, volunteered or were drafted to serve in the United States military. Japanese…
![A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It reads: "Let's go to South America [Brazil highlighted] with your entire family."](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Affiche_%C3%A9migration_JP_au_BR-d%C3%A9b._XXe_s..jpg/500px-Affiche_%C3%A9migration_JP_au_BR-d%C3%A9b._XXe_s..jpg)
A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It reads: "Let's go to South America [Brazil highlighted] with your entire family."
The children of these Japanese Brazilian (Nipo-brasileiros) immigrants would be called Nisei.