LAPORA LINDSEY n Page 6 New Year, New Voice.
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WORLD WAR II TIMELINE n Page 3 What was happening in Kitsap and the world from April 1 to July 31.
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Kitsap Military Times to be part of weekly papers and online By Terryl Asla Kitsap News Group
There’s just too much military news for a once-amonth publication. So after this edition, the stories, columns and features now produced by Kitsap Military Times will be published as part of your local Kitsap News Group newspaper — every Friday, instead of only once a month. KMT will also continue to be a section of KitsapDailyNews.com. “KMT content is currently only available in 8,500 copies distributed once a month to select sites,” Kitsap News Group Managing Editor Richard Walker said. “Now, KMT stories can be featured in the Bremerton Patriot and our other publications as well — a potential distribution of 65,000 copies. “We will also continue to produce our year-long ‘Kitsap Goes to War’ series, documenting what it was like to live in Kitsap County during world War II — our salute to the greatest generation. Terryl Asla is editor of the KMT. You may reach him at tasla@soundpublishing.com
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Kitsap County Japanese Americans incarcerated American population of the continental United On April 1, 1942, after a three-day journey States. that began with riding a ferry from Bainbridge This chapter did not begin on April 1, 1942, Island to downtown Seattle and then boarding but on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. a train with the window blinds shut The Imperial Japanese Navy Air tight, then-22-year old Kay Sakai Service had bombed Pearl Harbor, remembers that even after the train which was in Hawaii U.S. Territory, finally stopped at high noon in a hot destroying the majority of the U.S. desert. Everyone was herded onto Naval Pacific Fleet and claiming crowded buses. Sakai and all of the more than 2,400 American lives. The other 276 Japanese Americans from next day, President Franklin Delano her Puget Sound island home still Roosevelt addressed a joint session of had no clue of where they were the U.S. Congress and declared war on being taken by bayonet-armed U.S. Japan, famously stating “Dec. 7, 1941, a Army soldiers. By Clarence date which live in infamy.” As the bus droned on, after a Moriwaki “When I heard the news I didn’t even couple of hours Kay remembers Special Correspondent know what or even where Pearl Harbor that the air was getting hotter and was,” Sakai recalled. “My parents were dryer when, in the distance, she very, very shocked, and they thought that spotted a few makeshift buildings with more was a very bad move by Japan. In fact, my dad under construction. went and turned in his life insurance policy and “You could see the heat waves rising from bought liberty bonds. He wanted to help the the black tar paper that covered the buildings American cause...” and I thought to myself “Thank God we’re not Immediately after Pearl going to a place like Harbor, F.B.I. Director that,” Sakai recalled. J. Edgar Hoover com“Then suddenly, the menced a massive, nationbus turned towards the wide dragnet of elders buildings and my heart within the Japanese just sank. This was not American community. an April Fool’s joke; In two days, from New this was where we were York and Miami to San going to live.” Diego and Seattle, F.B.I. Sakai her family, and agents imprisoned 1,212 the entire Japanese Japanese American men American community from 21 cities and the from Bainbridge Island Hawaii territory without became the first playcharges, warrants or triers in a sad chapter in als. American history — the The F.B.I. was able to first community to be accomplish such a logistiforcibly removed and cal achievement because placed into Manzanar Troops take away the Mojis’ beloved dog the entire population of —which was the first “King.” Japanese Americans – of 10 major concentration camps that eventually incarcerated 120,000 down to 1/16 Japanese heritage – had already been under surveillance since the early 1930’s Japanese Americans from the west coast, following Imperial Japan’s 1931 invasion into or about 95 percent of the entire Japanese
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Continued from page 1 and coordinated dragnets weren’t the only actions by the U.S. government that moved very swiftly against Japanese Americans. Barely two months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, of which authorized the Secretary of War with broad powers to create of areas “from which any and all persons may be excluded.” Roosevelt appointed U.S. Army Lt. General John DeWitt as Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command, with the authority to define the west coast military zone and placed civilian Justice Department authority under military command. While some highranking members of the Roosevelt Administration, including U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, had strong opinions and opposition to the president’s actions, not one member of Congress opposed the extraordinary and constitutionally challenging measures and the consolidation of power under military control without declaring marital law. Indeed, prior to the war many (mostly west coast) elected officials and agricultural business leaders and organizations had been urging incarceration and expulsion of all Japanese from America including, but not limited to, forced revocation of U.S. citizenship. Ironically, F.B.I. Director Hoover, who after years of
intense surveillance and investigation of Japanese Americans, determined that there was no actionable evidence of espionage or disloyalty and opposed President Roosevelt’s decisions as “utterly unwar-
under DeWitt’s complete authority “with respect to which, the right of any persons to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions” he could unilaterally choose to impose.
Troops remove American Japanes residents from Bainbridge Island at Eagledale Ferry Dock, March 30, 1942.
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ranted.” In less than a week and a half after being placed in charge of the Western Defense Command, on March 2, 1942, Commanding General DeWitt issued “Public Proclamation No. 1” which among other actions, designated areas west of the Columbia River in Washington, west of the eastern ridge of Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range, western California and southwestern Arizona as
Three Japanese American families from Bainbridge Island received permission to “voluntarily” relocate to Moses Lake east of the Columbia River, but shortly after DeWitt ended the relocation program. Just three weeks after the announcement of Dewitt’s Public Proclamation No. 1, on March 23, 1942, U.S. Army soldiers detached from New Jersey arrived on Bainbridge Island and
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began posting – with the assistance of Japanese American high school students – “Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1” posters at key sites across the island. The order stated that all persons of Japanese ancestry (including all second generation American born citizens, who were now euphuistically defined as “non-alien” and their immigrant parents classified as “alien” since they were forbidden by federal law to become naturalized citizens until 1951) must report to military officials “between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 1942” for registration and further instructions, and all would be “evacuated (from Bainbridge Island) by noon Monday, March 30, 1942.” With only six days to anxiously settle all business and personal affairs, many families were fortunately able to find supportive people to look after their homes and productive strawberry farms, while others like the renowned Bainbridge Gardens fell into disrepair during the war with indiscriminate looting of plants and garden sculptures. Others were forced to sell personal property and possessions for pennies on the dollar. “We had so little time to get everything squared away, and with all of the suspicion and wanting to prove we were loyal Americans, my dad said to destroy anything that looked Japanese,” Sakai recalled. “So we just started burning, burying and breaking things up, getting rid of all of the nice things that Grandma sent from Hiroshima. The only thing that we saved was my Japanese doll and kimono that was stored in a hidden trunk. I feel very badly. All of our prized family heirlooms were all destroyed and we can’t pass them
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on.” The six days since the posting of Exclusion Order No. 1 passed quickly, and on the morning of March 30, 1942, Sakai and the remaining 226 Japanese Americans – two thirds of them U.S. citizens – assembled at the Eagledale Ferry Dock. Many arrived in their own cars or were offered rides, and if you didn’t have transportation the U.S. Army provided troop carrier trucks with an armed escort. Friends and neighbors gathered to say goodbyes, students skipped school under threat of disciplinary action, and the Bainbridge
“We had so little time to get everything squared away...” — Kay Sakai Review reported that even the soldiers from New Jersey had tears in their eyes, with one army officer saying “having to move these people is one of the toughest things we’ve ever had to do.” The Seattle PostIntelligencer took many now iconic photographs of that historic day. One depicts a childless middleaged couple, the Mojis, sitting in an army truck after their beloved white Samoyed dog “King” jumped into the truck withthem. Soldiers removed King and he became so despondent that he refused to eat and died shortly after. The ferry Kehloken arrived at 11:03 a.m. and the Japanese Americans, dressed in multiple layers of clothing and carrying suitcases and infants, solemnly walked down Taylor Road to the long Eagledale Ferry Dock, boarded the ferry and departed, leaving their Bainbridge Island home and beginning three
and a half years of unconstitutional incarceration. The Bainbridge Review played a unique role in the lives of their Japanese American community members in several ways. The publisher/editors Walt and Milly Woodward supported the community at the outbreak of World War II, editorialized as unconstitutional the actions of the Roosevelt Administration and their War Department, and hired young Bainbridge Island Japanese Americans as “camp correspondents” to write articles that would keep the community back home abreast of news about their friends and neighbors behind barbed wire. It is worth remembering that the U.S. was also at war with two other Axis powers — Nazi Germany and fascist Italy — and while a few thousand German and Italian nationals that were suspected of, charged with and found guilty of crimes were held in special internment centers during World War II, there were no Civilian Exclusion Orders, forced exclusion or mass incarcerations for the more than 12 million German and Italian Americans. It was never seriously considered, and such an attempt would have proved logistically problematic, if not impossible. Indeed, such actions would have changed the course of history for German American General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian American Joe DiMaggio. — Clarence Moriwaki is president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community and a founder and past president of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association. Contact him at clarencemoriwaki@gmail.com.-
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Kitsap reflected the general mood of country towards Japanese From the beginning of April to the end of July, 1942, the war effort kicked into high gear in Kitsap County. Gas, food, tires, fans and furnaces — everythig was rationed. A major story was when pinball machines were banned in Bremerton but not in Port Orchard, according to the Kitsap County Herald. Likewise, the announcement that the 500 men of the mounted guerrilla militia (who intended to attack invading Japanese troops from their mountain
WORLD WAR II TIMELINE Major events elsewhere in the world from April 1 to July 30, 1942 April 9, 1942: U.S.
troops on Bataan in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese; Bataan Death March begins.
April 18, 1942:
Doolittle’s raiders bomb Toyko; a big victory for U.S. morale.
May 4, 1942: U.S. Navy repels Japanese at the Battle of the Coral Sea. May 6, 1942: The remaining U.S. troops on Corregidor in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. June 4, 1942: The U.S. Navy defeats Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. This is often said to mark the turning point in the war in the Pacific. June 18, 1942: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers starts Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
July 3, 1942:
Japanese troops take Guadalcanal.
July 22, 1942:
Germany begins deporting hundreds of thousands of Jews from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka concentration camp.
redoubt) had grown to 500 men, but had only 35 horses. However, the major local story in the first six months of the war — the one that earned Kitsap County a lasting place in American history — was the forcible evacuation and incarceration of all the Kitsap County residents who were Japanese or Japanese-Americans. While the Bainbridge Review stoutly condemned the act and continued to publish reports from the camps, other local papers reflected
the general mood of the times. One of the headlines in the April 3, 1942 Herald read “Japs transferred from Island.” The story went on to report that, in addition to sending the residents to relocation camps, the government had also confiscated the $250,000 strawberry crop grown on 33 farms owned by the internees. Another article from that same issue praised the government for providing the internees with food and shelter, noting that they
would be expected to “work for the war effort” in return.
Even Dr. Seuss promoted the idea of Japanese fifth columnists. In fact, there was only one dcumented case of a Japanese American assisting the Empire of Japan, according to “Pearl Harbor” by Craig Nelson. Contributed
The Shintani family: One Poulsbo family’s loss Families from all over Kitsap County were among the first U.S. Japanese Americans to be relocated By JUDY DRISCOLL Special Correspondent
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ot only were Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island removed, all of the Japanese Americans in Kitsap County were incarcerated. This is the story of one family from Poulsbo. The Shintani family moved to Poulsbo in 1929 and lived on a houseboat in Liberty Bay where they tended oyster dikes. “My grandfather Shoemon hand-built the houseboat that the family lived in,” said granddaughter Janice Ono. “He used traditional Japanese carpentry techniques with sliding windows and doors. He put glass in the hallway roof to utilize the daylight (like modern sky lights). They had a wood stove, but not running water. They had to take milk cans to town to fill for drinking water, washing and cooking. “When they were interned, someone took their houseboat farther south and landed it near Scandia. “I saw the structure about 1974. My aunt recognized the sliding windows. I can remember my mother telling me about seals sunning themselves on the deck of the houseboat. When anyone would open a door, the seals would slide in, en masse, off the deck and the house would rock on the water.” Immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese American on the west coast came under suspicion. In Poulsbo, Shoemon Shintani, the oysterman who owned the Liberty Bay oyster
The Shintani family on their houseboat in Liberty Bay during happier times. At left, Shoemon Shintani checks the oyster bed, while his wife, Hatsuo and children watch.
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Company and had lived in Poulsbo for 12 years, was arrested. “My grandfather was picked up by the FBI following December 7, 1941,” said Ono.”They believed he had knowledge of the Keyport Torpedo Station and had somehow communicated it to Japan, which he did not. His family did not know what happened to him or where he was being held. He just showed up one day out of the blue five months later. I located records in Washington D.C. that showed he was held at Fort Missoula, Montana. His records during the time he was held were sealed until 1966,” Ono said. The March 27 Kitsap County Herald sternly announced “This is the final warning to the Japanese and Japanese Americans with the areas to be evacuated that they must immediately cease wishful thinking that there will be exceptions or delays of departure.” There was little the Shintani family could do but try and get their affairs in order and prepare to
be moved. The Shintani children were born and raised in Poulsbo. They are remembered locally as the family whose children rowed a nifty, green boat to school from their houseboat. “The story of my mother, Michiye, her older sister, Yoshie, and brother, Mitsuo, rowing across the bay to go to school has always been a family story,” Ono said. “This was prior to the school bus running. “She and my aunt would row, and the eldest brother would steer with the tiller. “They would drag a light rope line in the water to show they were going straight, and if it was too foggy, someone would ring the bell in the little church on the edge of the bay (It is across the street from where the high school stood.). They could tell which direction to go from the peal of the bell. “Later, my grandfather purchased a motor so they did not have to row and, in the end, they rode the bus around the bay,” Ono said. At school they were well liked, studious, and active
in school activities. Yoshiye Shintani graduated from Poulsbo Grade School in 1935 with her friend, Mary Schiko Sasaki, and from high school in 1939. In her senior plans she noted that she wanted to travel or study in Seattle. Travel she did, for she took a trip to Japan in early 1941, returning that April. Mitsuo graduated from North Kitsap high School in 1941. He was active in sports, a fact that didn’t escape the administrators of the relocation camp at Tile Lake, who put him down as athletic and a possible gym instructor. Michiye Shintani’s graduation year was 1942. The family’s evacuation on May 15, 1942 took place one week before her graduation ceremony. “Rumors of Japanese submarine attacks on the West Coast and Alaska were rampant,” said classmate Esther E. Tuomi Sellers. “In our little country school we, too, felt the sting of prejudice and suspicion. A welllike classmate, Kazumi Shintani, was forced along with other family members into an internment camp in Northern California. I recall the day when the bus came to pick him up from Pleasant Ridge School; how sad we all felt to see him go.” “My mother, her two brothers, and her sister were all taken to the Assembly Center at the Puyallup Fairgrounds,” Ono said. “From there they were sent to tule Lake Relocation center in Northern California. It was very cold in the winter, and very hot in the summer.
The dust never settle and the wind never stopped blowing. “Mom and her brothers did not return to Washington after internment,” Ono said. “The family went to Sacramento to work as farm laborers in the Delta region. My mother left her family and went to San Francisco to be a nanny.” Shoemon and Hatsuo lived out their lives after the war in San Joaquin County, California. Shoemon died in 1950 and Hatsuno in 1959. — Judy Driscoll is the author of “Spirit of Poulsbo” from which this story was adapted. The book, along with others she has written, is available for purchase at the Poulsbo Historical Society. Contact her at jtdris@comcast.net.
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Repeating In light of recent political trends, we thought we’d share the original editorial that ran in the Bainbridge Island Review on Feb. 5, 1942.
The time has come to bear out truth of our words, written two months ago in an extra edition of The Review, published the day after Hawaii was bombed. We spoke of an American recoil to Japanese treachery and wrote: Up and down the Pacific Coast, in the newspapers, and in the halls of Congress are words of hated now for all Japanese, whether they be citizens of America. These words reached a shrieking crescendo when Harry McLemore, with all the intelligence of a blind pig, wrote in the Seattle Times, “Personally, I hate the Japanese. And that goes for all of them.” That may be patriotism of a hysterical degree, but it certainly isn’t the kind of patriotism that will win the war. Let’s think for a moment, what would happen if the government should adopt Mr. McLemore’s fervid plea for the “immediate removal of every Japanese on the West Coast a point deep in the interior. I don’t mean a nice part of the interior, either.” Just who would grow our fruits and vegetables if Mr. McLemore’s advice is followed? We have no figures before us, but it certainly is an apparent fact that the bulk of our produce, and, dare we say, the bulk of the produce grown for our Army and Navy encampments on the West Coast, come from Japanese gardens. The economy of one-third of the nation would be thrown into utter confusion if all Japanese were herded up into the interior. But what of another factor - the wreckage that it would bring to lives of thousands and thousands and thousands of loyal American citizens who can’t avoid ancestry Japan? See WORDS PAGE 7
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New Year, New Voice I am not the type of person to comment publicly on current events, as I feel that everyone is entitled to their own views. However, I do feel that in light of major world and national events, and with the start of the New Year, it may be fitting to address how we as spouses have the power to influence change. Military spouses often have a unique perspective on current events for a variety of reasons, usually because the majority of decisions made by our government when it comes to foreign affairs affect us more directly, via our spouses. You may have “unfriended” a friend or two over their political views or other current-event sentiments, and if you did, I don’t judge
social media accounts because they advocate for something they believe in, whether right or wrong, if there is a cause that you believe in, then find your voice and support it and make a change. It could be advocating against discrimination, assisting in efforts to minimize the number of homeless veterans, providing educational information to children and families in need. Support is not defined solely by speaking, because you can let your voice be heard in many ways. Support can be defined by monetary donations, or providing productive comments and solutions.
So many times as spouses we see issues that affect us that we can influence with our voice, but we decide not to speak out loud. Rather than attending a Town Hall meeting, we may complain and offer zero-researched solutions, aiding no one. I am not saying you should start posting things on social media sites without being mindful of others, nor am I saying that you should create chaos. If there is a topic you are passionate about, become well-informed on it before you advocate, and respect the opinions of others. You can take a stand and help make a positive difference. Do it, not as a New Year’s resolution, but as a part of life.
From neighbor to enemy: The Tragedy Just a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt issued an executive order 9066 authorizing the War Relocation Authority to force 110,000 Japanese and their Americanborn children into relocation camps. They had to give up their homes and livelihoods for cramped barracks in isolated areas of Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Arkansas, Idaho and Colorado. They were given very little time to close businesses, pull children from school and tie up any loose ends. They could only bring what they could carry and in many cases this had to last for up to four years. This proved to be an extremely trying experience for many
of those who lived in the camps. The new camps consisted of 36 blocks, each block having 12 tar-papered barracks measuring 20 by 120 feet and partitioned into six units. The rooms were equipped with one hanging light bulb, army cots and mattresses and a potbellied wood stove. The community toilets, washroom, and showers were located in the center of the block, along with the laundry room and mess hall. Eventually, life in the camps settled into routines. Adults did what they could to make living quarters more accommodating. Schools were established for the needs of the young. Residents performed the
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jobs necessary to run the camps. Self-governing bodies emerged as did opportunities for gainful employment and for adult teaching and learning of new skills. Evidence of normal community living appeared as newspapers, churches, gardening, musical groups and sports teams started up. But the barbed wire and watchtowers remained in place. Despite this treatment, Japanese Americans did their best to get through this experience and serve their country during a time of war. More than 30,000 Japanese American men enlisted in the armed forces. While the men were away the women enrolled in high schools, took clerical jobs, or worked in the hospitals. Others took jobs as domestics for the Caucasian administrators. Some of
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these women without family responsibilities were allowed to venture out to accept jobs as secretaries and stenographers. Some of these women were bilingual and bicultural and were recruited into the Women’s Army Corps. They were placed in medical detachments, army recruiting, and in Military Intelligence Schools as typists, clerks, and researchers. Evacuees had barely settled into their new environment when they were recruited to fill the nation’s acute labor shortage and given temporary leave from camp to work on farms. This effectively mitigated the charge that the Japanese had posed a security threat. As a matter of fact, no disloyal act had been charged to any Japanese American before the evacuation, nor would it ever be.
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Get Involved List of local veteran organizations American Legion Post 30 Port Orchard n 615 Kendall St., Port Orchard. 360-813-5399. n Meets at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of every month. n Social Night is on the third Friday of every month — games, movies and snacks provided. American Legion Post 31 Shelton n Veterans Memorial Hall, 210 W. Franklin St. n Meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month. n Contact: Ken Gonella, 360-426-4546, or kgonellalegionpost31vso@ hotmail.com. American Legion Post 109 Silverdale n 10710 Silverdale Way, Silverdale. n Meets 7 p.m. the third Monday of the month, at All
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Even in Hawaii, was there any record of any Continued from page 6 Japanese-American citizen being other For who besides than intensely loyal? those as blind as Mr. The Review arMcLemore can say gues only with Mr. that the big majority of McLemore and his ilk. our America-Japanese It will not citizens are dispute the not loyal to federal govthe land of ernment if it, their birth in its considthe United ered wisdom, States! Their calls for the record removal from bespeaks the Coast of nothing all Japanese. but loyalty: Walter C. Woodward Jr., Such order and their sons — which we Mildred Logg Woodward. are in the hope will not Army, they come — will are heavy be based on military contributors too the necessities and not on Red Cross and to the hatred. defense bond drive.
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Japanese people, whether citizens or aliens, must prepare themselves for what may seem to them unfair and unreasoning treatment. But if they value their American citizenship and the right to live in this free nation, they must stand fast in their loyalty. American boys — including some of their sons — are giving their lives for Liberty. Any other sacrifice is not too great. Written by Walter C. Woodward Jr., and Mildred Logg Woodward.
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