“Also, the book documents how a lot of 1st generation Japanese would get sent back for education in Japan, an education that included a large dose of Japanese militarism, such that there was a real question about their loyalties.”
Some neisei had maintained close ties to the ancestral homeland and a few had a conflict of loyalties. I remember a caller to George Putnam’s radio program who had been a Marine fighting in the Pacific. In one battle he encountered a Japanese Imperial soldier who had been one of his classmates in high school in Los Angeles. Surely a rare occurrence but in the atmosphere of a major war even one event like that would quickly become infamous.
Wow, that’s interesting too.