As an American now attending University in Canada, this is the first time I have ever heard of Japanese Internment anywhere other than the United States. This is my first Canadian History course, and throughout the course I have found so much of the history parallels with American History. I also find a lot of Canadian History excluded from American History, but why? When the United States is so closely tied to Canada, even though it may seem that American History should only deal with events concerning America and vice versa. But after analyzing these two scholarly articles about Japanese Internment in Canada, American and Canadian influence on the Japanese during World War II was basically one in the same. Whatever moves the United States made, Canada tried to follow in their footsteps and vice versa as well. The shared west coast of America and Canada played a major role concerning the ties between American and Canadian History. Even though this information is somewhat irrelevant to what will be discussed in this paper, I still believe it has major importance that Canadian History should be recognized in the United States and this is a prime example of why it should

On the other hand, Granastein and Johnson’s article is about support for Japan from Japanese Canadians as well as Japanese Americans. Granastein and Johnson find through two books, Within the Barbed Wire Fence and Hawaii Under the Rising Sun, that Japanese Canadians had “a blind faith in Japan’s eventual victory”(Granastein and Johnson 111) and “most first-generation Japanese in Hawaii remained loyal to Japan.” (Granastein and Johnson 111) Further on in the paragraph Granastein and Johnson conclude that:

In the summer of 1940 Alderman Halford Wildson headed a new campaign against Japanese immigrants, even though this campaign was minor and never really caught on, his campaign was still significant because the anti-Japanese feeling was back on the rise again after almost two years of no hostile action against the Japanese-Canadians. In regards to evidence that there was no threat posed by the Japanese-Canadians Peter Ward states in his article that:

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