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History of Japan

Episode 208 - Across the Sea, Part 4

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8744 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week: why did the American government think it was necessary to round up Nikkei on the West Coast? And what did that policy mean for the people who actually lived it?

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Go to audible trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. I'm going to be able to be. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 208 Across the Sea, part four.

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As we've talked about on this podcast before, the plan launched by the Imperial Japanese Navy

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to strike at Pearl Harbor was a gamble, a roll of the

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dice betting that a crippling blow on a key naval base in the Pacific would be so demoralizing

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and debilitating for the American war effort that the American government would eventually

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sue for peace. Also, as we've covered before on this podcast, that turned out to be an extremely bad bet.

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However, our goal today is not to talk about the Pacific War, at least not directly.

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Today we're going to focus on the domestic response to Pearl Harbor in the United States,

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and the way in which that response

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manifested as, and I'm guessing I'm tipping my hand a bit here, one of the most repugnant policies

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ever undertaken by the government of the United States. So initially, the reaction to Pearl Harbor

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