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and “Hostilities declared by Japanese.” Congress formally declared war on Japan that day. But the unofficial war on the Issei and Nisei had already begun.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) kept a list of potentially suspicious Japanese and Japanese-American men and women. Business owners, teachers, farmers, fishermen, journalists—anyone who might hold a leadership role—was held for questioning. Since the Japanese government donated money to Buddhist temples in the United States, Buddhist priests came under suspicion. By nightfall of December 7, hundreds of men and women were in custody.Charles Kishiyama saw government officials take his father. “[T]hey had a struggle where they rassled with my dad, which frightened me,” he recalled. “I didn’t know what was going on, but they took him.”1These government roundups of suspected saboteurs (enemy agents) were not the first actions against the Japanese population. A month before Pearl Harbor, the FBI raided the establishments of Japanese-American businesspeople and community leaders in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.
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