I Survived Japanese-American Internment During World War 2
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Quite frankly, I’m pretty disgusted by some of the comments I’m reading. This is just the insight of the camps from someone’s family. I can’t believe people are still finding the time and energy to talk about eating pet dogs and trying to justify the camps in the US weren’t as bad as the concentration camps in Nazi Germany (they still happened and that’s what’s messed up!)
Absolutely no compassion in these comments... Too many morons too fight. Listening to the stories of survivors will always be what matters
It's the chinese who eats the dogs😂😂😂😂 but I wouldn't be surprised if she did it too she looks like one
This video isn't a comparison though genius. Stop feeling the need to defend a still clearly wrong choice your government made. This a story from someone who experienced this, have some respect or don't comment at all@@ransom6892
Just wait. Politically, we're there again. Questiin is, who is it going to be? Christians? Russian Orthodox Christians? The unvaccinated? Too strait? Not gay enough, maybe?
They’re absolutely disgusting and I can’t believe they’re on such an emotional video like this
one thing I learned at the Japanese American museum is they make a point to refer to them as concentration camps and not internment camps. Internment is a euphemism that downplays Japanese Americans’ experience at these camps.
Which they were not.
@@haileejacob1995 I disagree, although I understand why people think that. It is because we differentiate the two terms base on what we are taught about ww2. Even Roosevelt called them concentration camps. You can find a lot of articles arguing about terminology.
this should not have been made for an American audience, so immature and a massive lack of empathy. This poor woman is talking her truth and few of you get it. Comparison is not ok in the face of death.
Even more why the idiots need to see it-
@@Itsunclegabby good point, well argued
I hate society
@@Mitchell4892 So are we gonna also hear the Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, Taiwanese, etc story on how Japan treated them in WW2? Just wondering.
This needs to be more focused on in American schools. We spent the equivalent of years learning about Nazi concentration camp but Japanese internment camps were barely even spoken of. Everyone wants to believe in American exceptionalism but it's always been a myth.
How dare you compare the Japenese camps, to what happened to 6 million Jews!
They weren’t killed or tortured that’s why nothing happened to them except they were there
^ case and point
Some of these commenters should, but really just dont want to, go seek out stories and understanding of this. Stay ignorant, it will never make you right!
I chose to do my high school U.S. History class essay on the Japanese-American internment camps. It wasn't covered at all in our class, and I only found out about it because our textbook had an appendix of all presidential executive orders issued as of the book's publication. It wasn't covered anywhere else in the book, and that intrigued me.
When the War broke out, the people who had German ancestry were not put in camps because they looked like everyone else in my province. However, those who looked Japanese due to their ancestry were put in camps and treated like this woman's family was treated. Well-known scientist, David Suzuki has a story to tell.
Niihau incident, google it
Are you Canadian since you mention David ?
The German Americans had tons of scrutiny put on them during WWI. They voluntarily erased German language and iconography from public buildings, schools, and churches. The Japanese were a MUCH more recent arrival to the Americans. Also, you might want to look into what the Japanese immigrants did in Brazil. They funded a private army and navy and waited to be picked up by the Japanese navy. XD
@@zsedcftglkjhRacist if the government did not Equally intern the German, Italian and Japanese all the same. your point is very weak.
@@zpclosangelesgraffiticafe Its not racist but about interests. As always. You dont know what went on behind the curtains of politics. Americans wanted german knowledge so bad. They wanted the scientists and the inventions and other stuff, so not only did they made deals so that german scientists can enter the US and work for certain government programs, they probably also made some deals that included going more easy on people with german ancestry, that have been there way longer anyway. Japan didnt had much to offer at the time. Germany had. The allies broke Germany up like a chocolate bar.
why are people being mean to this poor sweet old woman? she is just telling her story. stop comparing it to everybody elses. grow tf up 😭
Its probably because of the click bait title, they were housed and fed, even though losing their property is terrible. They werent dying like a concentration camp, which is what the title kinda implies. War is unfortunate 🤷♂️
@@williamj9413’I Survived Japanese Interment During WW2’ What’s misleading about that? She was sent to an internment camp and survived. What’s misleading about that? Also ‘she was fed’. Do you hear yourself? Slaves were fed, too. Does that make their living conditions great? What the US did to Japanese people violated so many of the Geneva Conventions before they were written. The fact that they were technically better than Nazi concentration camps is nothing worth a gold medal.
@@williamj9413well fed?! They fed slimy and awful Food many of them got food poisoning because the food was so bad
This comment section is absolutely deplorable and I’m truly disgusted, I work right down the road from Papago park in Arizona which was used as a Camp for INNOCENT Japanese AMERICANS. I cannot believe you guys are giving the “Jews had it worse” excuse and just degrading this woman. Everyone commenting couldn’t even stomach a war but got so much $hit to say
I agree! I've been to Papago Park several times and I honestly had no idea it was used for that before 😢 that's absolutely gut renching
Womp Womp lets know what happened to the Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Filipino, etc I bet they would like to say something. OH WAIT we can't because Japan got off Scott Free.
Reminder that George Takei of the OG Star Trek also surived the Japanese American Internment camps
And spent the next several decades licking the boot of the political party that threw him and his family in a camp because of their race.
North America needs to be taught about Japanese internment camps, and the Japanese need to be taught about their war crimes/comfort women. Not to punish the new generations for sins of the past, but to educate, generate empathy and understanding, and to prevent tragedies like these happening again in the future. In war, there are no victors, only pain and suffering all around.
agreed 💯
We did... it was standard in schools 20 years ago. Farewell to Manzanar was a required read in school when I was in middle school.
Especially about Unit 731, that should never be forgotten.
Thank you for sharing your family and your stories
I cant imagine what it must've been like seeing those baby graves and thinking that could've been me... this woman and her family were so tough. Good on her dad for making sure they knew self defense too, what a sad but triumphant story. Americas history is very dark, and its trash that this country and schools (and some people in this comment section) try to down play this part of our country's history...
"Nationalism has a way of oppressing others." -Noam Chomsky I think a lot of these comments are operating under the idea that "bad things happen no big deal". America has an extremely dark history, and we are taught a very whitewashed version in American schools. This woman is so soft-spoken, and is giving her own recollection of a disgusting tragedy she and her family endured. My heart hurts for her and her family. The more I learn about American history the more difficult it is to be "proud" of my country. The whole world observes the US and sees the disasters coming out of it, and if we do not learn the harsh truths of our history, we will just be doomed to repeat it. I appreciate Ms Oda's willingness to share her story and am ashamed of the "Americans" leaving disgusting comments on this channel.
Exactly this. We are already repeating poor history. We spend so many years learning about the same geographically and/or chronologically distant issues with our history under the impression that we were the ones that "helped" things, or at the very least, with a tone of indifference. It's pretty messed up.
Communism is the same though. Same crap, different toilet.
Wow the fact you think this shows how delusional and ignorant you are about history literally nothing that happened in American history is the worst in history that’s a fact so you can go cry somewhere else and we don’t want you hear lmao 🤣
@@ElysetheEeveebecause we did there is nothing that has ever happened in America that’s the worst in history that’s a fact get over it and read a history book
@The_king567 If you think the history books are telling you everything that truthfully happened, you are extremely naive.
My Japanese grandmother doesn’t speak of this or her life in Okinawa. It’s sad. 😢
The trolls have really crawled out of the woodwork for this one. Why are they so triggered? Massive copium
Very inspiring woman
Who remembers Fort Minor?
Respect!
It's disgusting that we did this to our OWN PEOPLE just because they had Japanese descendants
I never knew about American Internment Camps until I stumble across the one in Tucson, AZ.
this truly breaks my heart
why do the comments hate her
some people are just racist and have no compassion
Americans
Because people hate that which breaks their paradigm. It's a fear response. Some people truly believe that "America is best and can do know wrong", right? "Canadians are always kind and accepting of everyone", right? People will always try and downplay their families/nations part in horrible situations whether it's taking part in the action or their inaction when terrible things happen. You know, Germany teaches a lot about the 1940s. They are determined to not let it happen again. But the US and Canada? No, we were the heroes in that war. We refuse to see what did as wrong.
Nobody hates HER I think...people hate the fact that japanese people like to talk about what was done to them, but rarely what they did during WW2, unlike other nations like Germany. "Losing face" is what they fear. Japan did horrific things...so bad even the Nazis told them to tone it down but how many people know about it? Not enough. I dont hate her or her story. Shes not at fault...but many naive americans will sob about this and dont know about the rest. Some people just wanna leave some little reminders, that its not always the evil white westerners, who start crap.
This breaks my heart 😢 to imagine what we did to the Japanese during this time and how little they teach us about it is upsetting.
I’m 1/2 Japanese, my grandmother doesn’t speak of this. She doesn’t even speak about her life in Japan. It’s common in their culture to keep quiet. It’s absolutely heartbreaking!!😢😢
Yes, but you should also ask what the japanese did during WW2...not to americans even...but to China (Nanjing Massacre) or their human experiments....or what they did to koreans for so many years. And they wont teach none of it in their schools...or reluctantly. In Germany we learn about every horrific detail and I always wondered what Japan did at the time, since they were allied to us...and then I looked it up and wish I hadnt.
FOB means plastic
Listen to kenji by fort minor
Used to listen to it 10 yrs ago.. gives me goosebumps every time. Makes me want to learn and hear all the stories and understand what happened ):
The real question is would Foreign Concentration Camps still exist in another World War?
They exist now. Just look at the southern border of the US.
@@SamSphinxlol what border? Its basically a doormat under the kidsniffer administration
Yes, and honestly its justified given the situation with china and their spying tactics. You either stick to your principles and lose everything or make some sacrifices and who dares wins.
@@SamSphinxwhere is there a concentration camp holding American citizens on the border?
I somehow got here from "Hey there demons, it's me, ya boy."
The experience was so traumatizing for these Americans of color. Most did their best to become "all American" (i.e. whitewashed) and dropping all semblance of being asian. Hence one reason you so rarely meet japanese Americans these days. Most married out and married white people, especially the women.
She is very Beautiful, I really mean that she’s a very beautiful women inside and out!
This is a terrible story of one of the worst things our country ever did, but why was this uploaded to BuzzFeed Unsolved? There’s no mystery, this is history.
If you think this is bad, you should talk to folks from the Philippines that survived the Manila Massacre that Japanese did during WWII.
Which this poor woman had no part in as a Japanese AMERICAN that was interned. Yes that was awful but let’s not talk over the tragedies of another innocent group and instead make a SAFE space to elevate the voices of every group that was hurt at the time. I don’t know whether it was the intent of this comment to sound accusatory but please be sensitive, she was vulnerable and shared her story the same way the story of the Manila Massacre should see the light
@@kishiscorner I was doing it out of awareness… nobody talks or even knows what happened in Manila but here’s this lady’s tragic story is a reminder of how uneducated we are as a society.
It's just disgusting that America doesn't teach this, but at the same time they also don't teach the atrocities that Japan committed during WWII. They make sure we ignore the fact that the USA hired Japanese war criminals as prominent advisors and didn't bring anyone to justice. Everything about the USA-Japanese interaction during WWII doesn't make sense in the way it is taught in the American school system. It's so sad that this happened- wish we could actually get an education on the wrongly incarcerated individuals.
I’m a US history teacher who focused more on the Pacific theater for this reason. Americans don’t like to address Japan as much because it’s not as easily digestible of a story as the European narrative where America can be portrayed as the hero against the Nazis. In the Pacific theater, Japan did horrible things and we did horrible things in return. No one really gets to be the hero in that story, and many find it hard to grapple with that.
@@rachelmcdonough1506 Uh...putting someone in a glorified compound versus driving women and children ahead of you during a banzai charge to soak up American bullets.
I remember watching a video of “The worst things each president has done” and I was like “What could FDR have done wrong?” Then I realized that this happened. I am terribly sorry for what everyone who went into those camps had to go through. This part of history needs to be addressed more.
Weird click bait title doesn’t really work for this type of video, feels very off.
I think what rubs me the wrong way about this video is the background music. Usually recorded testimonies don't have that kind of thing because the story is upsetting enough. Them adding it makes it feel less authentic.
I'd rather be a P.O.W to the Americans than the Japanese.
It’s all fine and dandy till sgt spiers offers you a cigarette tho
Now do one with a survivor from Nanking
There were no good sides in that war, but what the Japanese soldiers did in china and the pacific is almost unforgivable
Good for you
Get help
god damn these comments are brutal
OK, but how is this unsolved?
Have some respect
@@MonexaX How is asking a legitimate question disrespectful? The channel is called Buzzfeed Unsolved
It's just a channel name bro. And this is a series they do.
@@MonexaX relax Sensitive Sally he just asked a question
@@wettica870 it's not just a channel name, 99.9% of the videos on this channel have to do with mysteries, conspiracies, UFOs, ghosts etc. The I Survived series doesn't fit this channel at all unless it was "I survived the Glico-Morinaga poisonings".
7k view with over 5 million followers? Just close up shop already Buzzfeed , it’s over. Go away
@Buzzfeed you should talk about the genocide of Indigenous peoples of so called “California” next.
This is anti American propaganda
I survived chili's
Repulsive comments no compassion
A bleeding heart takes blood away from the brain.
No you are the problem
Now talk about the Chinese survivors of Japanese occupation
Not part of American history
@@hsuehhs1 how about the American soldiers that survived Japanese POW camps (fun fact, they sometimes performed ritualistic cannibalism or straight up tortured POWs for fun)
@@overlorddante what point are you trying to make? These Japanese Americans have nothing to do what happened of the treatment of American soldiers.
@@hsuehhs1 do you support such stories being told? Cuz those stories are way more suppressed
@@overlorddante yes I do support these stories being told
You can easily tell from this comments section who consider People as People and who think of them as Numbers 🔔 🔔 🔔
My greatest issue is the word “survived” since 99.98% of those who were illegally interred lived. Most people that died died of tuberculosis. It was affront that the Roosevelt administration committed. Survived is pretty strong, and with that word comes heavy connotations.
Just about everyone survived...not that big a deal really.
More people left than went in. Survived is definitely not the right word. It would be weird if they didn't survive. Especially in a time when the rest of the world wasn't surviving nearly as well.
Horrible, and to ad insult, all the ads throughout this video were ads to join the armed forces!
Mine weren’t
Wow
Racist if the government did not Equally intern the German, Italian and Japanese all the same. your point is very weak.
The Germans and Italians didn't bomb pearl harbor the Japanese did.. Pearl harbor is the reason the United States joined WW2
she wasnt even in japan?
American concentration camps.
The camps were made by the u.s out of just plain bigotry of japanese Americans thinking discriminatory that all japanese Americans are spies or working for the other side.
During WW2 the Japanese had some pretty horrible atrocities under their belt. I can understand why this happened in America but the innocent people were hurt along the way. Japanese killed more than the Nazis by far.
Well for one, the Nazis certainly killed more people during WW2 than the Japanese. The Nazis alone possibly killed more people than any other group in history. Secondly, remember that these camps existed for Japanese descendants who had nothing to do with the war. And that Germans living in the US were not met with the same fate. It was an act of pure racism.
What does this have to do with an American citizen being put in an internment camp?
These were americans simply blamed for their ethnic status as Japanese
Sweet now do a video about what the Japanese soldiers did to the civilians in Nanking.
Hurr durr both sides hurrrrrrr durrrrrrrr
Japanese Americans are AMERICANS. What the Japanese empire was doing in Asia has nothing to do with Japanese Americans who were born, raised, and worked in the U.S. The internment camps were a result of straight up racism. They did not imprison German Americans, nor Italian Americans, so why the Japanese Americans?
As many of the comments have pointed out. Im just gonna lay it on flat. You're racist, fix that.
Apparently it's a hot take to say "Both what the US government and Japanese governments did were bad, but the civilians are still innocent"....just because they're talking about internment, doesn't mean they're excusing the Japanese military's actions
@@dnam727 Some internment camps actually did have Germans and Italians like in NY. Just not the scale of the Japanese internment of course.
Now do a video about what the Japanese did to the Chinese during ww2
But that’s not part of American history
2 wrongs don't make a right
@@Toobesound helps putting things in context. Japanese weren't Anime and J-pop back then.
Japanese Americans are AMERICANS! What the Japanese empire were doing to Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, and other Asians have nothing to do with the Japanese Americans who lived, worked, and were born in the U.S.
@@hsuehhs1 helps put things in context, the Japanese were just as bad as the N-ZI back then if not worse.
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@danymilll707 sure what's up.
I bet she still votes for the party that put her there
Bruh you’re suchhhhh a loser lmao
Do you vote? If you, you certain vote for the party keeping you poor. The gov and economy IS the problem at the end of the day, no matter who sits where. The SYSTEM needs to go. We need to do things differently.
@@Leah-vr7di I agree... we definitely need a more right wing, authoritarian system
@@bernooski5128 parties are just puppets for the rich controlling them
Um you literally don’t even know her lol
but can she do a 360 no scope?
you ain't funny
But can you do a 360 no scope while teabagging
Cool, now do American captives under Imperial Japan
Have compassion and listen to her story before you beg for another video, moron
You lack compassion and need help. Or you're a racist and still need help
Besides the battle of midway there weren't any, and that's only because they couldn't hide the war crime of executing everyone.
5 months old and this is an I survived? More like I have no memory of it but was told how my family survived
It doesn’t matter it’s part of American history so we don’t repeat history
@@hsuehhs1 I think it was good to have death camps, actually
You should consider researching generational colonial trauma.
She still..survived tho? I’m confused by your point
_Survived? What on earth are you referring to? There was no peril associated with being in an interment camp. She is quite literally not a victim of any wrongdoing; the Americans placed them in the camp to ensure their safety._
Ur delusional
Pls open a book. Nothing about it was “for their safety” lmao
@@kishiscorner _The internment remains widely recognized as a grave injustice and violation of the rights of Japanese Americans, driven by racial prejudice and wartime hysteria. The safety of Japanese Americans from potential harm by others suffering from that wartime hysteria and prejudice was a part of the reasoning for placing them in the camps, but this argument does not justify the forced relocation and internment. Warmest regards._
What the US did was terrible but it DOES NOT COMPARE to a GERMAN concentration camp. They were given sub human rights and treatment. The Japanese were given SUBPAR treatment, and they were also given ADEQUATE rations. They also WERE NOT DEATH CAMPS. Majority of people survived the camps. KNOW THE HISTORY AND KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
If I were to slap a baby, but somebody else were to kick and punch a baby, that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t terrible for me to slap a baby
Bad take, friend. Torture is torture. It affects the entire community of people. We cannot compare and contrast these. These camps should have never existed and we need to focus on them for the evil that they were. Listen to their stories.
You realise this video wasn't a comparative study on German Vs US concentration camps, it's simply an elderly woman speaking of her experiences. You're trying to create an argument out of nothing. Both were bad, by what degree isn't a case for whataboutism
This video isn't a comparison though. its still awful so why defend?
They dont need to be compared, both were awful
So black Americans weren't the only ones to suffer, wow
Horey morey rice again😑
Survived? Dude its not a concentration camp.. cap
Dude, yes they were.
@@stephanieyoung8572 No lol
Concentration camp: a place where large amounts of people, political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities are imprisoned with small areas and inadequate facilities. Sometimes but rarely labor or mass execution follows. It's a concentration camp us americans just only define it as nazi germany and that's it but that's false, there's been millions of concentration camps that never followed mass executions.
I feel like the title is a little dramatic. Yes, they were taken away from their homes and made to go live somewhere else. Yes it was racist. But they were fed, clothed, housed and educated. Not exactly like what was going on with my relatives over in Europe. Pretty sure they didn't get any food or clothing in the only education they got was in suffering and misery.
And we did all kinds of stuff like this during world war II. For instance, the b29 was assembled in Wichita Nebraska because there were less immigrants and children of immigrants there. So they figured that the chances of someone being compelled by their homeland to commit espionage or lower. So we were suspicious of everyone. And for good reason. Those fears were not all unfounded
fam u cannot take away from someone’s life experience. as strong as u might feel about what your relative went through, all aspects of torture through encampment are wrong, no matter how light or severe.
They fed horrible food which caused many people to get food poison
Use your brain a little more champ
@@gelovstheuniverse Yeah but it's not really her life experience. She was 5 months old. She has no recollection. This is like the one thing that she can say that happened in her life that is kind of notable
Well it was never gonna kill her was it so how did she 'survive' exactly.
it didn't kill her, but that doesn't make what the Americans did to the innocent Japanese American civilians any less horrible, you don't have to be on the verge of death to survive something traumatic and horrible.
@@iamlinda100 They were detained for a while, big deal. And 'A substantial number of Japanese- Americans living on the West Coast dur- ing World War II were spies for the Jap- anese government'. This was according to Japanese diplomatic codes although there were no convictions. You think they did it for no reason at all?
@@blacklisted4885 they were forced to sell their homes & belongings, having their lives destroyed & incarcerated and locked up in camps with disgustingly poor conditions, forced to eat rotten food, constantly treated inhumanely like they were criminals when they were INNOCENT civilians who did nothing wrong. Many Japanese American civilians who were locked up in the camps died horribly. And there were no spies for the Japanese government in those camps, that was a lie the American government said to justify incarcerating these Japanese Americans. They locked up these INNOCENT civilians purely for racist reasons, they locked up these civilians simply because they were of Japanese descent, that's all.
Look up the 442nd Combat Team 🫡
It was a disgrace. They can try to dress it up but it is our history & we’ve got to own it. Just like all the other.
But does she eat rice and sushi for a living? While also eating pet animals such as the dog and cat?
Asian Americans don’t eat dog or cats
And started covid
@@RandomVids519 You're internalized racism is showing. Go to therapy and better yourself as a person.
@@RandomVids519 that's the Chinese you idiot, not Japanese
Japanese don't get dogs and cats you idiots, that's mainly Chinese and Koreans who eat dogs and cats.