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Bruce Elleman looks at an important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943.
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This book considers the negotiation and conduct of civilian prisoner exchanges between the United States and Japan during the Second World War. To locate Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese descent willing to be repatriated, during early 1942 the United States government gathered approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans into relocation centers. Critics have often attacked these relocation centers for serving no purpose, except perhaps to humiliate and punish innocent persons of Japanese descent. This book reveals that there was a very pressing motive for establishing the relocation centers—to facilitate the Japanese-American official and non-official exchange program—and they accomplished this goal superbly.
Utilizing recently released archival documents, this book examines the details of the diplomatic negotiations, the actual mechanics underlying the two successful exchanges, the reasons for the termination of the exchange program, and its final outcome. It highlights the important links between the civilian prisoner exchange negotiations and Washington’s decision to employ the Japanese-American war relocation centers to identify suitable candidates for repatriation. It provides compelling evidence that the war relocation centers were created and administered in a manner that sought to satisfy Japan’s concerns over reciprocity and its subsequent demand that the U.S. government provide for the safety and well-being of the Japanese, even those who had refused repatriation.
Overall, this book provides a thorough and insightful examination of the hitherto little-known, but fascinating, story of Japanese-American civilian prisoner exchanges during the Second World War.
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