... the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. Japanese Americans have developed no less than their ... own brand of civil religion"" (939). In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity ...

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... conflict contiguous to the American and Japanese-American races. This conflict, though not visible to tourist mindsets, has been subliminally effervescent since the mistreatment of the Japanese Americans during World War II, and its dormancy beneath the everyday smiling faces of Japanese and American bystanders is awakened heightening tension in the small island community. This recently catalyzed restlessness in the community draws ... years earlier, as the white citizens looked the other way when their fellow townspeople, the Japanese-Americans, were relocated to Japanese concentration...

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