Japanese Women During Ww2 Analysis

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This article seeks to depict the hardship that Japanese Canadian women had to endure, during the World War II in Canadian interment camps and after the World War, by analyzing her personal memory, personal mails that some Japanese Canadian women sent to their loved ones and relatives, and oral testimonies of interned Japanese Canadian women during the World War II. After the Pearl Harbor incident, according to the War Measure Act, all Japanese people were removed from they homes to interment camps in interior B.C.; This resulted in many family breaks ups and hardships on women to raise their family. This Act resulted in loss of national identity and culture of naturalized Japanese Canadians. Many Japanese Canadian women became subjected labor hardship and sexual harassments. After the War Canadian Japanese people had to choose between repatriation and relocation to east of …show more content…

Many Japanese Canadian Women stayed loyal to Canada during the war, however they were disappointed that their government failed to consider them as Canadians and betrayed them and sold their properties. Many others got disconnected from they appearance because they were Canadian on the inside and Japanese on the out side. Many were sexually abused by RCMP guards. Many had to work twice as hard so they can feed their family in the absence of their men. Many got in to family conflict and breakups, because the picture of silent Japanese women was gone in Japanese Canadian women and they spoke up for themselves. Many went to Japan and became a foreigner. However many believe that if these would not happen they would not have the thing that they have now, and the discriminations prior to war would have continued. - Amir

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