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Kibei (
kibei (帰米,
literally "go home to America")) was a term
often used in the 1940s to
describe ****anese
Americans born in the
United States whose parents...
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Minoru Wada was a
kibei, an
American citizen who was
educated in ****an, who
served as an
Imperial ****anese Army
junior officer and was
taken prisoner...
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general po****tion of ****anese-American inmates.
These were
mostly Nisei and
Kibei who
renounced their U.S.
citizenship rather than sign an oath to "give up...
- the
Renunciation Act of 1944, a law that made it
possible for
Nisei and
Kibei to
renounce their American citizenship. A
total of 5,589
detainees opted...
- them to be seen as
enemy aliens by the ****anese. Issei, and many
Nisei and
Kibei who held dual citizenship,
worried they
would lose
their ****anese citizenship...
- camp
during World War II. They were
split into
three groups/ranks, The
Kibei Boys (****anese-Americans from ****an),
Issei Boys (1st
generation ****anese-Americans)...
- but were
educated in the US and
whose ****anese was
somewhat limited, the "
Kibei", ****anese-Americans who had been
educated in ****an and
spoke ****anese like...
- the children,
schooling was the most
important aspect of life, with the
Kibei Nisei (roughly
translating to
returning Nisei)—who were sent away for education...
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several months of
tension between those who
supported the JACL and a
group of
Kibei (****anese
Americans educated in ****an),
rumors spread that
sugar and meat...
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There was, therefore, a
sizable po****tion of American-born
Nisei and
Kibei living in
their parents'
hometowns of
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki at the time...
