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Show U. S. Japanese Pupils Taught To Obey Tokyo California youih lold Ihey are subjects of Emperor Hawai. p.ctured as 'foreign couniry'. Consider this quotation) as part of the daily instruction ox thousands of "American" children chil-dren up and down the Pacific .Coast over a .period otf years: "Our great Japanese Empire has been ruled ior 10,000 (years uy our honorable (Prince. We are all (his siuojects. And, toeing to, we must continue steadfastly in the pato of our predecessors, ilhere is no other country in the world to compare with ours. It is our duty to carry on the great spirit of loyalty to tlhe Emperor and the Empress, and try to achieve their aims. "We must also try to understand under-stand toe Government of our nation na-tion and the (problems before it. We must suraly try our 'Utmost in this always, for it is our duty and our work. Do it with a big heart. "Always love your country and your Emperor. Build up your body. Study everything, toe diligent. Do not forget what you learn. If you do all this you will ibe a good Japanese." Hie students are Japanese- Americans; Unat is, the American horn children elf Japanese parents. par-ents. Some are children of other oth-er American-born Japanese. Books Published in Japan The textooak from which the quotation is taken has 'beam in wide use in tlhe Japanese-language schools. It is one of a set of sudh) hooks Ifor all grades from primary to high school. The books were published in Japan, approved by the Ministry of Educajon of the Japanese Government, and tlhe teaching In as been given, right iup to the time of Pearl Harbor, by teachers teach-ers (from Japan or toy Ajmerican--born Japanese who were educated edu-cated in Japan. For these and other teachings held to be subversive, the Federal Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation has arrested many alien Japanese and has charged them witlhi being be-ing "undesirable aliens." Many are now in inland detention camps, .booked "for the irnimdgra-tion irnimdgra-tion service" for probable deportation de-portation alfter the war. Pupils who have learned these anti-American lessons under Japanese schoolmasters, although American-born, are nevertheless no a- under strong suspicion. The impossibility of knowing just how deeply their studies have influenced their inner convictions convic-tions has made necessary the current, progressive removal of all Japanese, alien and citizen, from coastal territory and 1,000 spot zones, where vital war work is toeing carried on. Some of the books studied by the young American-Japanese through years past have displayed display-ed prominently pictures oif the Japanese flag and the Japanese Emperor, with the Japanese salute sa-lute "banzai" which is something like am equivalent of the German Ger-man "heil." Just a flaw years ago young Japanese-Americans were studying study-ing at least part otf the time a textbook written in Japanese which had ibeen Printed in the United S'.ates. It had the indorsement in-dorsement of the California Department De-partment of Education, tout also had .been sent to Japan and had been' approved by the Ministry of Education there. Court Upheld Teaching A court decision, holding that fereign-lan.giuage schools could-teadh could-teadh almost whatever they 'wished, put the American-pub-lish:d textbook in the back ground, ar.d in recent years these have given way almost entirely to those published in Japan. The newer textbooks contain pictures di Hitler youth groups in Germany, pictures of airplanes air-planes ar.d tanks, besides relating re-lating the children who study theim directly to the Emperor of Japan. Tuition in the Japanese language lang-uage schools always held after regular sdhool hours and on Saturdays, is said to have ranged rang-ed from $1.50 to $4 a month, with trie average payment about ?2.25. These figures give rise to a natural supposition that the Japanese Ministry of Education, 'besides approving textbooks, subsidized the schools in some way, perhaps in the payment of a portion of the salaries of the teachers. This point cannot as yet be stated as a ifact, for the proof is mot complete. There has been mention of possible establishment oif Japanese-language schools at the induction in-duction centers, .where hundreds of Japanese are toe in s sent en route to ne.v homes ifarUber inland. in-land. Camp Manager C. E. Trigs at Manzanar, Owens Valley, has said "there is no provision for the establishment of any such institution here." Civil law, as now 'pre vails, does not prohibit pro-hibit toe conduct of such schools, tout it is not held likely that the Army and its civilian branch dealing wih evacuees will coum- |