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
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.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated unit in U.S. military history, a
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…100th Infantry Battalion (United States) 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) Asian American…
100th Infantry soldiers receiving grenade training in 1943
442nd recruits building then attacking across a pontoon bridge at Camp Shelby
A 442nd RCT squad leader, Sergeant Goichi Suehiro, checks for German units in France in November 1944.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team hiking up a muddy road in the Chambois Sector, France, in late 1944