... article is also good at clearly stating the goals of this new Japanese American civil religion. The internment of many Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor left many generations with a haunting past. It is in remembering the injustices and what happened that creates a new civil religion for the Japanese American people: "the institutionalization of memory therefore becomes significant in ... in which memory is reenacted and repurposed lend Japanese American civil religion its distinctive character"" (946). The Japanese American civil religion was founded on remembrance, b...

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