{"id":266252,"date":"2017-08-31T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=266252"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:47:40","slug":"75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\/","title":{"rendered":"75 years ago, courts upheld detention of Japanese Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the United States were forced to relocate to internment camps \u2013 even though the majority of them were American citizens. Their detainment was upheld by US courts on this day 75 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreater awareness of the Japanese-American internment can help the nation avoid repeating the conditions that led to violating the rights of so many innocent people,\u201d says Joanne Bernardi, a URochester expert on Japanese culture who helped organize an exhibit and lecture last year entitled<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/looking-like-the-enemy-links-wwii-internment-to-current-debates\/\"> \u201cLooking Like the Enemy: The WWII Japanese American Experience.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more than 15 years, Bernardi, an associate professor of Japanese and of film and media studies, has been collecting postcards, brochures, films, and other visual and material culture related to Japan as part of scholarship investigating representations of Japan and its place in the world during the first half of the 20th century. Some of these collection items can be seen at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rej.lib.rochester.edu\/\"><em>Re-Envisioning Japan,\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a digital humanities research project and interactive online archive developed over the past five years in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Lab. Future plans for the newly launched second generation of the digital archive include a web-based publishing platform, <em>Routes<\/em>, that will promote object-based scholarship and pedagogy on Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2028\u201cGreater awareness of the Japanese-American internment can help the nation avoid repeating the conditions that led to violating the rights of so many innocent people,\u201d says Joanne Bernardi, a University expert on Japanese culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":191942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[456],"tags":[7066,19242,16072],"class_list":["post-266252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-film-and-media-studies-program","tag-global-engagement","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>75 years ago, courts upheld detention of Japanese Americans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"75 years ago, courts upheld detention of Japanese Americans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2028\u201cGreater awareness of the Japanese-American internment can help the nation avoid repeating the conditions that led to violating the rights of so many innocent people,\u201d says Joanne Bernardi, a University expert on Japanese culture.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-31T19:35:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-05T14:47:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/internment.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bob Marcotte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bob Marcotte\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bob Marcotte\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e0d8d271cd290d592461fa9cefca013b\"},\"headline\":\"75 years ago, courts upheld detention of Japanese Americans\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-31T19:35:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-05T14:47:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/75-years-ago-courts-upheld-detention-japanese-americans-266252\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/10\\\/internment.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Film and Media Studies Program\",\"global engagement\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Society &amp; 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