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The following is an exclusive excerpt from Michelle Malkin’s new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery).The Turncoats on Niihau Island"Are you a Japanese?” Those were the first English words spoken by downed Japanese fighter pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi on tiny Niihau Island, located about one hundred miles northwest of Honolulu. It was December 7, 1941. Nishikaichi had had a busy, bloody morning at Pearl Harbor. Now, with the aid and comfort of a Japanese-American couple, Nishikaichi was about to make the lives of the Niihau residents a...

<p>In his life, Michio Terao had to climb a lot of mountains, emotional as well as physical, that touched him in a way perhaps only another Japanese-American could truly understand.</p> <p>On Aug. 6, 1945, he was recovering in a Colorado hospital from a serious knee wound suffered while serving with the all-Japanese U.S. 442nd Regiment in Europe when he heard America had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.</p>

<p>As Jimi Yamaichi kicked up the dust along the barbed-wire fence, the long-buried memories of his years at the Tulelake internment camp rose in a flood of emotion.</p> <p>It had taken more than four decades for the San Jose native to muster the courage to revisit the site where his family was imprisoned during World War II.</p>