Should American prison camps where mainland Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII be described in be same terms as the Nazi death camps, where nearly nine million victims of the Nazis were murdered?
Recently, a New York Times opinion piece (“When History Repeats,” July 14, 2018) addressed the imprisonment of mainland Japanese Americans in prison camps during WWII, including members of the writer’s immediate family. Author Michiko Kakutani compares that history to the intolerance and bigotry promoted by President Trump, Vice President Pence and Republican politicians. ...