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I'm joined today by Richard Kahan, who is author of UnAmerican, the incarceration of Japanese

Americans during World War II. There's so much richer to talk about with Japanese American

internment during World War II in relation to 2016 and 2017. But before we do that,

give us the quick summary of what this internment incarceration was. I actually did one of the things

you talk about in the book, which is the use of some of these words that are confusing words

of incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. For people who don't know what happened,

let's start there. Great. Well, the incarceration really began on Pearl Harbor Day.

Within 11 weeks of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 Japanese Americans were picked up from their

homes and forcibly removed. The worry was that they were going to either collaborate or spy

for the government of Japan. And the idea was if we could put them in, what turned out to be

concentration camps, the security risk would be less than quite a bit. It began in late February

with executive order 9066, when President Franklin Roosevelt passed the order that basically allowed

the military to decide the fate of Japanese Americans. There was a lot of consternation. There

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