I Was Sent to a US Concentration Camp | I Was There

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Paul Tomita was taken prisoner at age three to an American concentration camp in Idaho. Eighty years later, as one of the few living survivors, he speaks about what it was like to fight for his life as a Japanese American citizen forced into incarceration during WWII. To learn more about Paul's current advocacy work, check out tsuruforsolidarity.org - a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites.
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  • @napalmman8292
    @napalmman82922 жыл бұрын

    My grandpa fought against the Japanese Imperial Army in Malaysia back then, when he was alive, he told me lots of these horrible things he saw during the war. 1 thing he taught me is, always remember not all the Japanese are bad, just because 1 person did terrible things to you, doesn’t mean his whole family/races/nation are equally bad as him. He basically taught me not be a racist, and everyone are equal.

  • @mollysanden6610

    @mollysanden6610

    2 жыл бұрын

    The world is often more gray rather than black or white

  • @napalmman8292

    @napalmman8292

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Something Something Thanks and don't forget to click like, oh and by the way don't forget to comment "Cool fictional story bro" on some other "fictional" comments below too

  • @kaimcdonald4273

    @kaimcdonald4273

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shouldn’t be taught to not be racist. Should come natural

  • @iheartdbeat1235

    @iheartdbeat1235

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kaimcdonald4273 usually does, but people are taught and raised TO be racist.

  • @kaimcdonald4273

    @kaimcdonald4273

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@iheartdbeat1235 very true and it’s sad

  • @on2wheels378
    @on2wheels3782 жыл бұрын

    My Mexican American/Filipino American family during that time took care of two homes in the South Bay of Los Angeles. San Pedro. For a Japanese American Family interned in Manzanar, near Lone Pine Ca. When they returned, everything was the way they left it but their grocery and egg business was sold to whites for pennies on the dollar. They regrouped and ended up owning other businesses by the mid fifties. To this day, my mexican/Filipino family feel were part of theirs and vice versa.

  • @sinatrabone

    @sinatrabone

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good on your family for the support they offered their neighbors. Thanks for sharing your story.

  • @flashywordz

    @flashywordz

    2 жыл бұрын

    You should look up the story of Ralph Lazo, a young Mexican American who voluntarily spent two years imprisoned in Manzanar in solidarity with his Japanese American friends.

  • @on2wheels378

    @on2wheels378

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@flashywordz don't need to, he was a civil rights and educator known in the LA area.

  • @flashywordz

    @flashywordz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@on2wheels378 word! I had only heard of his story in the past few years, of course he kept at it :) I hope no one ever has to experience this again, we all have to watch out for each other. I’m Japanese-American myself, my family lived in Riverside before they were forced into camp.

  • @starsdaisuki
    @starsdaisuki2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you doing this. My grandparents were interned as well and this was barely covered in school.

  • @raftopher2911

    @raftopher2911

    2 жыл бұрын

    Democrats have done some terrible things.

  • @maxcullen3427

    @maxcullen3427

    Жыл бұрын

    Guess states just ashamed Bless you both as English hard too imagine

  • @ImWoki

    @ImWoki

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm 20 years old and just now learning about this. So sad.

  • @LB-uo7xy

    @LB-uo7xy

    Жыл бұрын

    I wonder why? Since the US has ALWAYS been so transparent and tots honest about every single atrocity it ever commited. Just like EVERY other former or new colonial power. Were you thought about the US-Philippine war or the so called 'forgotten' (for reasons of more atrocious war crimes than 'Nam) Korean war?

  • @Arthurian.

    @Arthurian.

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@LB-uo7xy social studies

  • @SenoritaConejita
    @SenoritaConejita2 жыл бұрын

    I hate that I didn’t learn this at all in school. What happened to those in Europe and here in the US should be taught. Thankfully because of social media we are able to learn of the new atrocities of this country with what’s going on with children coming from South of the border.

  • @Ben-xf7uy

    @Ben-xf7uy

    2 жыл бұрын

    I grew up 30 miles from the camps in Utah. I didn't learn about it in school and no one talked about it in the community. My grandfather showed me where and told me all about it when i was 18 and considering the military. He was shocked they didn't talk about it and wanted me to know just how inglorious and heartbreaking war can be. Really was a big moment in my life.

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its taught in most places in America lol. you just had a bad education. 1940 was a very different time, but it was common to do this stuff when you were at war with a country. Japan literally just bombed pearl harbor, even though the innocent Japanese immigrants had nothing to do with it, it was 1940 the Government didn't know any better. They also weren't sending them there to their death it was just temporary detainment.

  • @biggestboofer

    @biggestboofer

    2 жыл бұрын

    What school do you attend lmao? Everybody i've ever heard of has been taught about this and the supreme court case around it.

  • @madkills10

    @madkills10

    Жыл бұрын

    you were not taught this in school? or you just didn't pay attention? We are taught about this stuff in Australia

  • @jackjoker5495

    @jackjoker5495

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@tburr7502 I get what you are saying and I don't want to just jump to conclusions and say that it was racism without looking at it as objective as I can. The Germans that lived in America were never put into camps. Sure, most of them lived far longer in the US than most of the Japanese people. However there was a nazi movement in America and several german-amsricans went to the third Reich to fight for it. There were no fanatical organizations like that full of Japanese nationalists, which were directly supporting their ancestral homeland. Or rather I have never heard of any and if they did existed, they probably were never that big. I am not saying that the Germans should have been put into camps, but why weren't they when there was real extremism and support for the enemy in parts of that community? Sure a lot of American Nazım were later prosecuted and maybe even some innocent people, but why not at the same scale as the Japanese-Americans were? I mean after they put these people into camps, they also forced them to fight in their war. Of course they weren't allowed to fight in the pacific, but again soldiers of German heritage were send to europe and north Africa to fight Nazis. So we're Italian americans. And after all that, those Japanese soldiers still showed that they were not above serving and fought bravely for a country that didn't even trust them or respect them. They were forced to fight and they still performed their duties. America is an enigma. It makes no sense.

  • @goldenglowladore3842
    @goldenglowladore38422 жыл бұрын

    Dear Paul, I am so sorry this horrible crime was committed to you, your family, and the others! Thank you for teaching us more about this sad part of history. Blessings I pray on you and your family.

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do you realize this happened to every race in every country right.... It was 1940s we didnt have computers or technology. The world was a very different place.

  • @Smd-tn3tu

    @Smd-tn3tu

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tburr7502 i suppose that means we should ignore it huh? you'd like us to look past these things, but you're supposed to learn from history little buddy. Not pretend it never happened or wasn't as bad as survivors claim. You want us to look past the children being held in camps right now, don't you?

  • @MikeSmith-ty1dy

    @MikeSmith-ty1dy

    Жыл бұрын

    Very very honoraber

  • @Tavpanda
    @Tavpanda2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for publishing this story Vice. People NEED to know this history so that we can control the narrative of our future.

  • @DickCheneyXX

    @DickCheneyXX

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is common knowledge, it was never hidden... The government did it openly at the time.

  • @luketalks
    @luketalks2 жыл бұрын

    Wow. What a powerful message and strong story. Thank god for people like this man who survived and cohesively tells his story so people can begin to understand the damage these “internment” camps really do.

  • @DickCheneyXX

    @DickCheneyXX

    2 жыл бұрын

    >ank god for people like this man who survived They pretty much all survived... Those were not extermination camps, they were essentially in a POW camp. They had it easy compared to those who were drafted to go fight and die in the war.

  • @s.h.4241
    @s.h.42412 жыл бұрын

    I have always wanted to hear someone speak about this. Thank you for sharing your story.

  • @bryantamon8633
    @bryantamon86332 жыл бұрын

    Very sad, especially being Japanese myself. This really shows how fear can change people for the worst. America was afraid back then, but Japanese Americans proved them wrong by standing up and fighting for a country that didnt care whether they lived or died. America is still afraid and the cycle continues. When will people actually learn from history rather than repeat it countless times.

  • @smokeymcpot992

    @smokeymcpot992

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you dislike MERICA you can kindly move elsewhere and see how much better everywhere else is 🤣

  • @iheartdbeat1235

    @iheartdbeat1235

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@smokeymcpot992 😩

  • @raftopher2911

    @raftopher2911

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s how democrats are

  • @KimiEclipse

    @KimiEclipse

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@smokeymcpot992 his point flew so far above your head, you didn't even notice it, did you?

  • @smokeymcpot992

    @smokeymcpot992

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KimiEclipse your narrow minded thoughts would make you think that but maybe you should expand your outlook on things 🤣

  • @colonizingfear
    @colonizingfear2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for shining some light on one of the many struggles Asian-Americans faced in America.

  • @vivianlee7684

    @vivianlee7684

    2 жыл бұрын

    Period

  • @laknidubandara

    @laknidubandara

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, I think it was Justified. What do you think the Japanese would have done if there were Substantiating sums of Caucasian Americans.

  • @HopelessXzavier

    @HopelessXzavier

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@laknidubandara because 1940s japan lead by example right

  • @hankhill6707

    @hankhill6707

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@laknidubandara thank god most people dont have the same beliefs as you

  • @dmasterrx6402

    @dmasterrx6402

    2 жыл бұрын

    They did the same thing to us in Japan. Watch the rising sun with Christian bale and Ben Stiller. No one is innocent in times of war just doing what it takes to survive.

  • @Ben-xf7uy
    @Ben-xf7uy2 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Sanpete County, Utah. They had some of the Japanese camps there. I didn't ever learn or talk about it in school. My grandfather took me to where they were and told me all about how wrong it was but it seemed fair at the time.... Its truly heartbreaking. I think we need to share even the worst mistakes our country has made. Otherwise we will repeat them in one form or another.

  • @adamdavis4346
    @adamdavis43462 жыл бұрын

    I see people saying that calling them “concentration camps” is over the top. It is when compared to the ones used by the Nazis for example. However, concentration camp is the correct name. From the Brittanica encyclopaedia- concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.

  • @michaelopp5389

    @michaelopp5389

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe the term "concentration camp" and "internment camp" and "imprisonment camp" are grammatically correct. An ethnic group was gathered and concentrated into a small geopgraphic area. In that regard they were like the "concentration camps" in Europe. However, the eurpoean's goals were to murder directly and indirectly (forced labor, starvation, and disease) the selected groups (Jews, Roma, Gay, physically infirm) that were forced into those camps. I use the word "europeans", because there were many more perpetrators than german. There were many Europeans that took great joy in the murder of 'other'.

  • @intihumala9087

    @intihumala9087

    2 жыл бұрын

    word salad... they were placed there innocently against their will by a Democrat named FDR.

  • @jordanB206
    @jordanB2062 жыл бұрын

    A lot of Washington residents out here don’t know that the Washington(Puyallup) state fair grounds were once a concentration camp.

  • @a-hvlogs2046

    @a-hvlogs2046

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep my friends grandma never set foot on that place again after she left after the war. She found it slickening it was turned to a fair ground.

  • @jordanB206

    @jordanB206

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@a-hvlogs2046 I never would’ve considered how that would’ve made all those victims feel. It’s a huge slap in the face to their struggle. Wow

  • @a-hvlogs2046

    @a-hvlogs2046

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jordanB206 The red barn is original lol thats pretty creepy

  • @tkosandiegotrustknowone619
    @tkosandiegotrustknowone6192 жыл бұрын

    Im glad i watched the whole video..My father was a POW and survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. The Japanese military was brutal to our soldiers... Paul Tomita thank you for speaking up for human rights and for people of color! What happened to your family was wrong. You are a true American and keep fighting for equal rights for humanity...

  • @StickyKleenex
    @StickyKleenex2 жыл бұрын

    I remember learning about this in school. My teacher said it's still in law that they could do this again during a war. Not sure if that's true or not

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    logically speaking you just wouldn't do it, families from all different countries have had roots here for hundreds of years now. Even 50 years+ is a very long time. The same logic from 100+ years ago just doesn't come into play here. It would never happen. 1940 was a fuckin brutal time, people act like the world was sunshine and rainbows, its only really been this peaceful for about the last 40 ish years. My parents lived through the cold war which nobody born in the 80s or 90s even really knew about

  • @alexgeorgeson7719
    @alexgeorgeson77192 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather started a bowling league with interned Japanese in Idaho after the war and was close friends with many! He even let them stay in the basement during and after the war.

  • @arcoiris5912
    @arcoiris59122 жыл бұрын

    Powerful message

  • @thebitehandle360
    @thebitehandle3602 жыл бұрын

    When ever a senior who curses that may normally not curse, you know they're royally pissed off lol. I encourage anyone to look into this type of history. Living in the Pacific NorthWest im still uncovering these types of stories. These sad truths are rich over here and its worth taking the time to learn about it. Pretty crazy to see even after all these years that the same stuff is still happening to this day.

  • @nessanova115

    @nessanova115

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm from PNW too... What part are you in? Any additional info you could share would be appreciated, as I find this type of info important & informative. I like to share with my young kids as well)

  • @georgemckenzie2525
    @georgemckenzie25252 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your service to humanity. May that these atrocities never again occur on earth.

  • @Sssteelo

    @Sssteelo

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is happening right now! In this country.

  • @darcee3350

    @darcee3350

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was prepared to be sympathetic towards this man until he went on a "white people" rant. The reason this was done was because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. It doesn't excuse this, but someone in authority decided this was necessary to calm down the masses. Stop with the white blaming. It's time to focus on the situation here, today, right now! They are working on killing as many of us as they possibly can, and they don't care what color we are.

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Sssteelo Who is being put in concentration camps???

  • @Smd-tn3tu

    @Smd-tn3tu

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tburr7502 children are in cages at the border and you just want to pretend it isn't happening lol

  • @mrufoguy527
    @mrufoguy5272 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for speaking out🙏

  • @rebeccaj.2606
    @rebeccaj.26062 жыл бұрын

    I live near the Minidoka Camp. When I first moved here I took a drive one day. I saw a sign that said Hunt and an arrow. Went down the road a bit and there's the remains of a guard house made by basalt and a plaque. All the other buildings were either destroyed or moved. And I'm thinking, jeez, they never taught me this in U.S. History. This is before it became a National Monument. Yep, a lot of loamy soil here and very occasionally the wind whips up and blows it everywhere. Always have had a bit of problems with dust here. And thank you for the insight in that period. It was so wrong.

  • @aaronjeff35
    @aaronjeff352 жыл бұрын

    Camp Amache in southeast Colorado in the town of Granada is on the verge of becoming a national park. My brother in law runs the program and has done amazing things to keep this part of history alive and remembered so everyone can learn what actually happened and what went on. They are in the process of trying to rebuild some buildings amongst other things. Feel free to look it up!

  • @mikegumfory4223
    @mikegumfory4223 Жыл бұрын

    This is an extraordinarily powerful documentary. It took awhile to find it but it has redeemed vices value to myself as a tool of education.

  • @GalaxyzFoster
    @GalaxyzFoster2 жыл бұрын

    YOUR WORDS COULD'NT ECHO ANY LOUDER! KEEP PREACHING!

  • @christinasornbutnark1208
    @christinasornbutnark12082 жыл бұрын

    This happened to my in-laws. My ex-husband wasn’t born yet, his brother was. They took everything from them then years later the gov gave them a check but it took like 40 something years. My brother in law died before he got his check. I appreciate videos like this so that I can share them with my my children.

  • @skut9
    @skut92 жыл бұрын

    Paul has a big heart. Thank you Paul for telling your story and continuing to be a voice for hope against injustice 👍🏿

  • @theisaac9835
    @theisaac98352 жыл бұрын

    Crazy how this isnt talked about more often

  • @jashoo8597
    @jashoo85972 жыл бұрын

    Put this in the history textbooks

  • @themanwnoname3454
    @themanwnoname34542 жыл бұрын

    ((...we do know what makes life worth living. The people ...loved and they were loved. They were mothers and fathers; they were husbands and wives; sisters and brothers; sons and daughters; friends and neighbors. They had hopes for the future and they had dreams that were not yet fulfilled. And if there’s anything to take away from this …it’s the reminder life is very fragile. Our time here is limited and it is precious. And what matters at the end of the day is not the small things, it’s not the trivial things, which so often consume us and our daily lives. Ultimately, it’s how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another. It’s what we do on a daily basis to give our lives meaning and to give our lives purpose. That’s what matters. At the end of the day, what we’ll remember will be those we loved and what we did for others. That’s why we’re here.)) - President Obama 🔥 🔥

  • @MrAlec1995
    @MrAlec19952 жыл бұрын

    I live 5 min from a Japanese Concentration camp. It's known today as the Puyallup Fairgrounds for the Washington state fair.

  • @notabadcookie
    @notabadcookie2 жыл бұрын

    Thank You!

  • @jojo1308716
    @jojo13087162 жыл бұрын

    My heart hurts

  • @angim6750
    @angim67502 жыл бұрын

    Thankfully with the Education system banning books and teaching things that make white america "uncomfortable", they do not need to ever deal with it. Winning!!!

  • @maman89

    @maman89

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not too different from the cult of leader in North Korea. The beauty of this is everyone thinks they're "free" in America because guns while NK citizen actually realize they are being fed bullshit.

  • @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was lucky enough to go to a school in Utah where minority studies were heavily focused on in History classes. I learned so much about people who have suffered in America, and I am grateful for it. I have been an avid reader of historical literature and textbooks ever since then. I hope kids now still get what I got.

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do know they have taught this specific topic in public school ever since it happened right.... You sound ignorant af

  • @ikeekieeki
    @ikeekieeki2 жыл бұрын

    this is a valuable video. more people must see it.

  • @eighterthabest9024

    @eighterthabest9024

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe if you lack all critical thinking, and are just looking for any reason to criticize the US...

  • @ikeekieeki

    @ikeekieeki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@eighterthabest9024 lol this guy is defending concentration camps

  • @nirvana2117

    @nirvana2117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eighterthabest9024 calm down your white supremacy Is showing

  • @robertsaget9697
    @robertsaget96972 жыл бұрын

    Only people of color? never heard of "Irish need not apply"? There was racism. But it wasn't just on racial lines. But ethnic lines as well. And not only against non-whites.

  • @theguyishere249

    @theguyishere249

    2 жыл бұрын

    @E.X. CEASER no But they where treated like second class citizens.

  • @rife_157

    @rife_157

    2 жыл бұрын

    @E.X. CEASER My ancestors from my mother side which is purely ginger Irish descents are discriminated against because they are stigmatized for being witch. I was a 6th generational American. Pretty much before UK became a colonial power, they invaded Ireland first.

  • @esahm373
    @esahm3732 жыл бұрын

    I doubt Hollywood will ever make a movie about this atrocity.

  • @eighterthabest9024

    @eighterthabest9024

    2 жыл бұрын

    American Pastime, Bad Day at Black Rock, Come See The Paradise, Day of Independence, Farwell to Manzanar, Forgotten Valor, Go For Broke (atleast two of them), Hell to Eternity, If Tomorrow Comes....I can keep going. The point is maaaaybe you should look things up before commenting? Maybe if you had youd be able to say more than just labeling it all an atrocity, without knowing anything about it....

  • @erikhernandez8071
    @erikhernandez80712 жыл бұрын

    People need to stand together to stop letting history repeat again . For future generations.

  • @amir3515

    @amir3515

    2 жыл бұрын

    Technology and mass surveillance will do that for you

  • @flashywordz
    @flashywordz2 жыл бұрын

    My family was there too. VICE, thank you for filming this, but you failed to note that the day you uploaded this video, February 17, is the Japanese-American Day of Remembrance, and 2022 marks the 80th anniversary since the signing of Executive Order 9066, the action which led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. NEVER AGAIN.

  • @socialtwerker
    @socialtwerker2 жыл бұрын

    A lot of you should look up the definition for the word connotation.

  • @brmahadev4916
    @brmahadev49162 жыл бұрын

    I am so sorry for that

  • @TANTHEMANFILMS
    @TANTHEMANFILMS2 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather & his siblings along with my great-grandparents where sent to Poston,AZ relocation camp. My great grandparents where given some money from the goverment in their 70s & 80s.

  • @creatvemnds
    @creatvemnds2 жыл бұрын

    🤖🌞💟may this gentleman have many future blessings for him and those who were protesting against the "new modernized" concentration camps.. and them not waiting them to go through everything they did in the past and even though it's not going towards someone in similar demographic but us (I'm a minority) as minorities as a whole and helping one another is truly beautiful and him saying it how it is is truly poetic loved how he expressed everything he's felt in years through words instead of something more negative.💟🌞🤖

  • @houseplant1016
    @houseplant10162 жыл бұрын

    0:05 where do people get these kind of old video's?

  • @madrugadao000
    @madrugadao000 Жыл бұрын

    This story was untold. I hope lots of people watch this video

  • @hanschouwman4536
    @hanschouwman45362 жыл бұрын

    A very big no. A great injustice has been done to the American Japanese.

  • @dannydaw59
    @dannydaw592 жыл бұрын

    The president shouldn't be able to take US citizen's civil rights away without congress.

  • @ARAKBLACK
    @ARAKBLACK2 жыл бұрын

    solid video

  • @Fotosynthesis858
    @Fotosynthesis858 Жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather was put in a Japanese concentration camp & he wasn’t even Japanese. He was a Filipino-America who also served in the US Navy. What a horrible shame smh

  • @KISSY_ALWAYS
    @KISSY_ALWAYS2 жыл бұрын

    that ending made me cry, i was born in 2000 and hearing about what happened way back then makes me so sad and like he said history is repeating itself which is again hella fucking sad

  • @kaleb1609
    @kaleb16092 жыл бұрын

    Most baffling thing to think is that this guy is still alive. Living history

  • @EmoBrianEno

    @EmoBrianEno

    2 жыл бұрын

    Therein lies the difference between a internment camp and a concentration camp.

  • @nirvana2117

    @nirvana2117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EmoBrianEno doesn’t make it any better it’s still horrible and inhumane

  • @EmoBrianEno

    @EmoBrianEno

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nirvana2117 but he lived to tell his story and so did almost everyone else. I would say that makes it better than a concentration camp.

  • @cherrymilk5590

    @cherrymilk5590

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@EmoBrianEno so being alive makes imprisonment OK? Lmao

  • @joesnow8868
    @joesnow88686 ай бұрын

    As a father it broke my heart to see that man's mug shot from when he was 3!

  • @MsDboyy
    @MsDboyy2 жыл бұрын

    Well said 💯☯️

  • @HeartwarmingStories
    @HeartwarmingStories2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. My grandfather who was born in the US was sent to a concentration camp, and he refused to fight for the US and so they deported him to Japan.

  • @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is not good. I hope he ended up ok. When will American politicians learn that immigrants are absolutely essential to America and our future?

  • @tannerdiercks2034

    @tannerdiercks2034

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good

  • @winstonmichaels407

    @winstonmichaels407

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did he get back his citizenship after the war or just stayed in Japan?

  • @mathewcameron123mc

    @mathewcameron123mc

    2 жыл бұрын

    You wanna live here then you better prove it.

  • @winstonmichaels407

    @winstonmichaels407

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mathewcameron123mc what do you mean prove it, that every citizen should participate in wars to prove their patriotism?

  • @Taylor-le5rn
    @Taylor-le5rn2 жыл бұрын

    Vice been putting out a lot of good stuff lately, keep up the great work

  • @atomictraveller

    @atomictraveller

    2 жыл бұрын

    notice how they avoid coverage of the 60 year, 1.8 million dead genocide in west papua like the fucking plague tho. world's biggest gold mine, u.s. corp freeport mcmoran. sucks if you're west papuan huh vice.

  • @MrHihihibye

    @MrHihihibye

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vice avoids the actual problems in the world. They are pro "vaccine" mandates. They are not on the side of the working class.

  • @SATX_

    @SATX_

    2 жыл бұрын

    The USA is a rotten onion, So many layers of fucked up history.

  • @MODElAIRPLANE100

    @MODElAIRPLANE100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrHihihibye definitely agree that there is more to cover, however some of the things they cover they still do quite well, that's why I like watching them. Do you have a source for them being in favor of vaccine mandates? Based on how they phrase that I might need to boycot

  • @proculusjulius7035

    @proculusjulius7035

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@atomictraveller notice how other news sources cover it? ABC in depth, DW.... Why not watch those or better yet, contact vice news. Want their contact? Read the bloody FAQ in the description.

  • @chasenshirley8863
    @chasenshirley88632 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately a sad world we live in full of greed.

  • @dhooter
    @dhooter11 ай бұрын

    There was a Japanese camp in Seabrook South Jersey. They eventually turned the little houses into low income housing. They were there up until about 20 years ago. They took them down and built more section eight housing.

  • @CrossOfBayonne

    @CrossOfBayonne

    9 ай бұрын

    Nice I actually went down there being the northern half of NJ

  • @michaelpatton4593
    @michaelpatton45932 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that he compared what happened to him to what happens to Mexican children today. I thought people forgot about that issue now that Biden is in office.

  • @MManic
    @MManic2 жыл бұрын

    Paul is an inspiration. What a fantastic video

  • @TiffCee
    @TiffCee2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Paul 🤎

  • @nicholasjeremyreid2870
    @nicholasjeremyreid28702 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Vice, for sharing this story.

  • @amyo
    @amyo2 жыл бұрын

    This wasn’t covered in school. Only knew about the nazi camps. Thank you for the information. America (and the human race) is something man….. smh

  • @Ash-of2vp

    @Ash-of2vp

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm not surprised it wasn't covered in American schools but we covered this and much more in my Canadian Education.

  • @jmoon9123

    @jmoon9123

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ash-of2vp i read a book about this in middle school in rural GA

  • @thehighestofclouds9890

    @thehighestofclouds9890

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can’t compare this to the nazi camps...

  • @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    @CoronaryArteryDisease.

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ash-of2vp I went to school in Utah, USA. This was definitely covered and taught. I read a book about Japanese Americans during WW2 in middle school. If I didn’t read it, my grade would have been docked massively. Reading history books has been a hobby of mine ever since then.

  • @amyo

    @amyo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thehighestofclouds9890 wasn’t comparing, just saying that the only concentration camps that were mentioned in my public schooling were nazi camps.

  • @marlonespinaldelrio8703
    @marlonespinaldelrio87032 жыл бұрын

    Its absolutely true that history tends to repeat itself by revealing the darkest side of dominant citizens over weaker citizens in any given nation during political warfare. Some people usually say that when another world war breaksout the worst is yet to happen to certain citizens of the world, however one can honestly say that by reviewing history's chronological data that the worst has already happened to many citizens of the world during the darkest historical periods of wars etc,. When in fact should another world war occur history will only repeat the same type of atrocious scenarios, because of the same racial tentions that humanity has towards each others differences that continues to persist since the day when men first tried to conquer and rule the world by taking away personal liberties from others.

  • @jsmithfootguy777
    @jsmithfootguy7772 жыл бұрын

    No, German and Italian Americans were interred as well, my grandfather from Sicily was in a camp in California

  • @MrMicahMane
    @MrMicahMane2 жыл бұрын

    I live in Idaho I want to take a trip down here

  • @spaghettibird5135
    @spaghettibird51352 жыл бұрын

    Not to downplay this but I’m not sure why he says he “somehow survived.” Very few people died.

  • @spaghettibird5135

    @spaghettibird5135

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also some Germans and Italians were taken too, though a much much smaller number

  • @tburr7502

    @tburr7502

    2 жыл бұрын

    There has been an agenda for the last few years to dismantle America for some reason, not sure if its other countries or what but its bled its way into the entertainment industry now and everyone hops on the bandwagon. Its too easy to see these things and make videos on them baiting peoples feelings. They want people to hate America for some reason its wild.

  • @Pawker

    @Pawker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree plus calling it a consecration camp is too much and by definition not the same thing, that why is called a relocation center. Still fuckin sucked tho but not as worst as a consecration camp.

  • @buttercups616d

    @buttercups616d

    2 ай бұрын

    He had asthma and was living in poor conditions as a baby

  • @afterthestorm221
    @afterthestorm2212 жыл бұрын

    Let us not forget what has happened when we have allowed assumptions, propaganda, and fear to rule over logic, compassion, and truth. 💚

  • @starletsmokey3508
    @starletsmokey35082 жыл бұрын

    It’s sad but true.

  • @darkgalaxy5548
    @darkgalaxy5548 Жыл бұрын

    Over 130,000 Allied civilians - 50,000 men, 42,000 women and 40,000 children - were interned by the Japanese in the Far East during the Second World War. The majority of them were Dutch nationals from the Netherlands East Indies. Internees included colonial officials and their families, employees of European companies and the families of servicemen. More than 14,000 civilian internees were to die as a result of their internment. Internees were held in more than 350 camps across the Far East. In the internment camps conditions were severe. Food and clothing were generally in short supply and facilities were basic. Conditions varied according to the location of the camps. Those on mainland China fared relatively well, but conditions in the Netherlands East Indies were among the worst and casualties from disease and malnutrition were high.

  • @DetroitFettyghost
    @DetroitFettyghost2 жыл бұрын

    Im sorry these people endured this ❣️

  • @davidrincon4602
    @davidrincon46022 жыл бұрын

    Vice displays amazingly interesting stories in a top-tier journalistic production: hands down one of the most valuable channels around. Awesome work!

  • @PurpleElephantMusic
    @PurpleElephantMusic2 жыл бұрын

    there were some germans and italian americans interned in camps during WW2, he makes that mistake. its just vastly vastly lower then the number of Japanese Americans that were forced to go through it.

  • @xzqzq

    @xzqzq

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, also Canada interned ' enemy aliens ' during WWI. Lithuanians if memory serves. Two good books : ' Justice Delayed '. & ' Justice Denied '. about Japanese internment.

  • @JasonBrown-tx4lq
    @JasonBrown-tx4lq2 жыл бұрын

    Damn that's sad

  • @jeffb.140
    @jeffb.1402 жыл бұрын

    "Who built the cages, Joe?"

  • @XanderDoesThings
    @XanderDoesThings2 жыл бұрын

    *internment Also FYI the government tried to do this again blaming it on Covid

  • @vfry7896
    @vfry78962 жыл бұрын

    😢😳

  • @redshanksbolshevikempire
    @redshanksbolshevikempire Жыл бұрын

    This has never been covered before in any School

  • @danielleeleanor2251
    @danielleeleanor22512 жыл бұрын

    I’m sorry he’s 82??? Wow he looks amazing! Thank you for sharing your story also with us!

  • @ShidaiTaino

    @ShidaiTaino

    2 жыл бұрын

    Asians don’t agein’

  • @torontocharlz

    @torontocharlz

    2 жыл бұрын

    I heard he is single. That may be your chance!

  • @sundhaug92

    @sundhaug92

    2 жыл бұрын

    Remember this is so recent George Takei is another survivor

  • @SSRIs

    @SSRIs

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ShidaiTaino No, bro. You spelled agein’ wrong. It’s ageing or aging. You welcome bro.

  • @SSRIs

    @SSRIs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Big up to melanin magic. Melanin aka the anti aging potion

  • @Aiyahhh
    @Aiyahhh2 жыл бұрын

    It's enlightening how the victors have the opportunity to write history, this dark part of history is quietly brushed under the rug.

  • @thatdude3977

    @thatdude3977

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats all of America in a nutshell

  • @9thplace612

    @9thplace612

    2 жыл бұрын

    What underfunded school did you go to I learned this in the 5th grade

  • @EddieMo816

    @EddieMo816

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/indsmLONhbbKoNo.html 🇲🇽🔥💪

  • @X2LR8

    @X2LR8

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unit 731

  • @Skurtz901

    @Skurtz901

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember learning about this in high school, didn’t go as in depth as this video but I did learn we sent Japanese Americans to American concentration camps. Maybe your state doesn’t require having this in their curriculum but they teach this in California.

  • @prodirector11
    @prodirector112 жыл бұрын

    I agree this was a wrong thing for the U.S. to do, but Japanese-Americans were NOT being systematically murdered at these camps, which were called internment camps, not concentration camps, by the way. They were fed, children went to school, families stayed together, again, it was wrong to ever single anybody out in the first place I agree, but the tone of this video is to insinuate that during this time there were prison camps in America that were just like those in Nazi Germany and that’s not true. The camps in America were utilized because of a fear that Japanese-Americans would create an insurgency here in America, and also, there were camps for German-Americans, not POW’s, German-American immigrants who they feared would do the same, and Italian-American immigrants too, so it was not an event that only targeted the Japanese, we did so to those of nationalities of countries we were actively fighting wars against, and they were not faced with horrible mal-treatment at the hands of guards, starvation, disease and no medical care, or systematic murder of any kind!

  • @uptone12111
    @uptone1211111 ай бұрын

    I wrote a paper in college about this.Not surprising that it has been snuffed from the media

  • @f430ferrari5

    @f430ferrari5

    5 ай бұрын

    Who controls the media? The left/liberal/Democrats. Yes? Hmmm.

  • @stoundingresults
    @stoundingresults2 жыл бұрын

    Farewell to Manzanar by Jeane Makatsuki Houston is the Authors experience at the japanese Internment camps. It's a free 5 hour audiobook on youtube

  • @flashywordz

    @flashywordz

    2 жыл бұрын

    Inside an American Concentration Camp by Richard S Nishimoto and Looking Like The Enemy by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald are also good firsthand accounts

  • @kluneberg8952
    @kluneberg89522 жыл бұрын

    The white america he was referring to was Franklin Roosevelt

  • @Obi_boy

    @Obi_boy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Still like this now

  • @xxxxxxxxxx12345jdheh
    @xxxxxxxxxx12345jdheh2 жыл бұрын

    Respect for old guy !

  • @rasuzuki7527
    @rasuzuki75272 жыл бұрын

    My Grandparents were interned in a camp.

  • @artmex7815
    @artmex78152 жыл бұрын

    why we never learnt about this

  • @Andrew-jj1he

    @Andrew-jj1he

    2 жыл бұрын

    You never paid attention in school then cause here in Tennessee we learned this in middle school

  • @artmex7815

    @artmex7815

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Andrew-jj1he or maybe its because i live in estern europe 🤔🤔😂

  • @agoogleaccount2861
    @agoogleaccount28612 жыл бұрын

    Something American government would like you to forget happened

  • @hulking_presence

    @hulking_presence

    2 жыл бұрын

    What exactly happened? A concentration of japanese population? Oh no how scary how evil, lol

  • @zhouyou28

    @zhouyou28

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hulking_presence A concentration of Japanese Americans, their own citizens

  • @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602

    @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602

    2 жыл бұрын

    🤡 why would they teach this in schools if they want you to forget it happened

  • @bobross8585

    @bobross8585

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602 a lot of schools don't lol

  • @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602

    @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bobross8585 more like a lot of students don’t pay attention in class

  • @CrossOfBayonne
    @CrossOfBayonne9 ай бұрын

    A lot of interees signed up to join the war effort with one unit the 442nd Regiment and 100th Infantry Battalion being formed for them in 1943

  • @JDsgreatz28
    @JDsgreatz282 жыл бұрын

    This is an important history lesson for future generations... Never let ANYONE "suspend" or take away any of your rights...

  • @jazeenharal6013

    @jazeenharal6013

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol, we haven't learned our lessons then...as half the country gleefully turns over medical autonomy to bureaucrats.

  • @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

    @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you actually think you have a choice? What, you think your shotgun is going to save you when the government decides to fly over a city and drop agent orange on it?

  • @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

    @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jazeenharal6013 I've heard of so many fools such as yourself. You complain and complain, then you get the virus and the very first thing you do is run to the very doctors you were making fun of. Read the next words I'm about to say carefully: YOUR RIGHTS HAVE LIMITS! The limit is when your rights infringe on those of other people. If * you're willing to stay home when you get the virus and not clog up the hospitals like all of you antivaxxers do * you didn't land up spreading the virus to others, killing them too then I'd agree with you. But your decisions are literally affecting the lives of everyone else here. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

  • @glowwithmebri

    @glowwithmebri

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 it’s hard for me to believe you spent your valuable time making such baseless assumptions lol. you took a really general comment and absolutely ran with it 😂

  • @donewithmodernlife

    @donewithmodernlife

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 go outside, take a deep breath & touch grass.

  • @paulnakamura8103
    @paulnakamura81032 жыл бұрын

    A touching video, and yes ! governments need to stop! its been 90 years now?! And it's still going on. and yet They've learned nothing. We all have to learn to live together and help each other.

  • @juangringo3906

    @juangringo3906

    2 жыл бұрын

    *They've actually learned a lot! It is why we live in 👺🌎. *They run EVERYTHING including all our comms and the devices we're typing on but I get and agree w/your sentiment.

  • @tonyp1376

    @tonyp1376

    Жыл бұрын

    Without government not only would it not have happened, but there wouldn't have been war in the first place. We as humankind need to realize that so called 'leaders' are totally unnecessary and establish a new world devoid of government. Doing away with these hollow shells in fancy suits would solve virtually all of our problems. Unfortunately almost everyone is a statist nowadays, they just can't fathom a world in which we don't have these tyrants making and enforcing ridiculous, arbitrary laws. If everyone refused to comply with govt mandates today, we'd live in paradise tomorrow.

  • @goddammitboi
    @goddammitboi2 жыл бұрын

    It got good until the end, tried to slip that in there 😂

  • @puppylover49
    @puppylover492 жыл бұрын

    i didnt have a clue about this. can u imagine how frightened these little kids r going to be. its wrong to imprison minors with no adult. that is worse than snatching them away and giving themt o social services.......its goin to happen again and again...were they not doing it with homeless people??

  • @bleueggos6798
    @bleueggos67982 жыл бұрын

    When I went to school they didn't teach us this

  • @antoniousai1989

    @antoniousai1989

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, they don't teach you these things that shame your country. My country was the first one to throw chemical weapons and bombs from a plane and they did on top of natives from countries they were trying to submit. Of course, you're not gonna learn about that cause they think it's shameful, and it is.

  • @nicholasc3694

    @nicholasc3694

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@antoniousai1989 Well I learned about it years ago and everyone else I know learned about it.

  • @TravisTheMaximus

    @TravisTheMaximus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well you got a terrible school

  • @Andrew-jj1he

    @Andrew-jj1he

    2 жыл бұрын

    In Tennessee we learned this in middle school

  • @layahails9655
    @layahails96552 жыл бұрын

    Unbelievable and a crime against our people. I just want to cry for them .

  • @MODElAIRPLANE100

    @MODElAIRPLANE100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @MKULTRABOOST yes definitely, but this does not excuse any others to commit lesser crimes.

  • @Bee.Holder

    @Bee.Holder

    2 жыл бұрын

    @MKULTRABOOST Have you thought that two nuclear bombs that the US threw on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were war crimes? They were used against civilians, not against enemy bases, forces etc. Think about that before you dare lecture others.

  • @commandohazelnuts
    @commandohazelnuts2 жыл бұрын

    It's all so sad. ): Don't separate families over arbitrary boarders or differences of government.

  • @DracoDikaryon
    @DracoDikaryon2 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @Erik_The_Viking
    @Erik_The_Viking2 жыл бұрын

    George Takei (Star Trek) was a survivor of the concentration camps as well.

  • @jerrywilliams1345
    @jerrywilliams13452 жыл бұрын

    Love it. Great channel

  • @meditationmama70
    @meditationmama702 жыл бұрын

    Amén!

  • @ReasonMakes
    @ReasonMakes2 жыл бұрын

    So horrible. And such a tragedy that things like this still happen! Right now Uyghur people, or people who look "too Uyghur" or even are just from certain areas are imprisoned or even killed in concentration camps in China! The CCP dictatorship is just unfathomably evil. Racism and discrimination MUST end, but it never will until we educate ourselves AND stand up for one another.

  • @helderlouro
    @helderlouro2 жыл бұрын

    “Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

  • @jitogee4206

    @jitogee4206

    2 жыл бұрын

    But , but , but, covid ain’t in history tho?!?! So we can suspend rights for that right

  • @Mr.JoeMontanya

    @Mr.JoeMontanya

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jitogee4206 what? Lol let me guess you are a trump supporter

  • @raw_dah

    @raw_dah

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jitogee4206 Spain flu??

  • @ALotOfCancer

    @ALotOfCancer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jitogee4206 You don't have a right to spread disease, that's actually not in the constitution, believe it or not.

  • @jitogee4206

    @jitogee4206

    2 жыл бұрын

    Y’all are as mad as me that vice made this video, they are implying that suspending rights is a bad thing ! We know it’s NEEDED

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