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Article: Japanese, Muslim Americans look back on national calamities Japanese, Muslims recall racism 9/11: The Pearl Harbor for Muslims?
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- Oakland Tribune
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- December 7, 2006
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When the Imperial Japanese Navy swooped over Pearl Harbor 65
years ago and destroyed more than 2,400 American lives, Mas Yamasaki
was watching a church basketball game in Sacramento.
He was 12, and he didn't know that he would soon live in a
detention camp in Tule Lake -- sleeping on an Army-issued mattress,
braving the elements without indoor plumbing or heat.
The child of Japanese immigrants, Yamasaki was born an American
citizen. But he spent 31/2 years of his American childhood in the
camp -- he was considered a threat to national security.
The internment of Japanese immigrants is familiar to most
Americans -- in large part, because Yamasaki and legions ofJapanese
camp survivors have ...