Short fill is short.Canada walked down the street, inspecting the village. The Jap carpenters he'd shipped inland from the coast had done a fantastic job repairing the ghost town in time for their countrymen. Since registrations had outstripped supply he'd had to order that two families be housed in each building, but that way the wives could combine resources and give each other more free time. Some had had to be kept in canvas tents for the first few months, but it just toughened them up - they might as well start proving that they wanted to become Canadian, and dealing with snow was the first step. (It had been the biggest hurdle for France and England, why not Japan too
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Re: Self (Re)Assurance (2/2)
anonymous
January 7 2010, 14:30:54 UTC
"Protecting millions of mine at the expense of a few thousand of yours is hardly childlike, nip. Unless being 'grown up' means pulling shit like Nanking or Hong Kong? In which case I thank God that I'm not an adult - I'm just keeping potential combatants away from my coast, not massacring thousands of civilians because they looked at me the wrong way. Anything else
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Re: Self (Re)Assurance (Notes)
anonymous
January 7 2010, 14:32:30 UTC
Historical Notes:Following the attack on Pearl Harbour (and Canada's declaration of war on Japan), Japanese-Canadians were placed under ever-increasing restrictions that weren't lifted until 1949, especially on the west coast (British Columbia). It started as a curfew and seizure of radios, moved into banning all Japanese men from a zone extending 100 miles/160 kilometres in from the coast, and then the forcible removal of all persons of Japanese descent from the zone to a registration facility, then work camps (for men) or internment camps (for families and the elderly). They were only allowed to bring what they could carry; everything else was seized by the government, and eventually sold off for a pittance. Housing was crowded and cold, ranging from converted livestock barns in Vancouver to formerly-empty houses in New Denver to poorly-built shacks in Lemon Creek. Families were allowed to move east, past the mountains, but many communities (including Toronto) closed themselves off from Japanese immigration; families were also given
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Short fill is short.Canada walked down the street, inspecting the village. The Jap carpenters he'd shipped inland from the coast had done a fantastic job repairing the ghost town in time for their countrymen. Since registrations had outstripped supply he'd had to order that two families be housed in each building, but that way the wives could combine resources and give each other more free time. Some had had to be kept in canvas tents for the first few months, but it just toughened them up - they might as well start proving that they wanted to become Canadian, and dealing with snow was the first step. (It had been the biggest hurdle for France and England, why not Japan too ( ... )
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Which is really my way to say: Wonderful fic. Very poignant, very accurate. And very sad.
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