... 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 the larger mission of education and healing for Japanese Americans." The ways in which memory is reenacted and ... gave reparations to those who suffered. Along with the acknowledgment and reparations: "the act, toward this end, also est...

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