The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi - PBS Version (60 min)

Within 48 hours of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i authorities arrested several hundred local Japanese on O'ahu, Maui, Hawai'i and Kaua'i. In total, over 2,000 men and women of Japanese ancestry were arrested, detained and interned in Hawai'i.
The Untold Story, produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i (JCCH), is the first full-length documentary to chronicle this little known story in Hawai'i's history
This film premiered at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival (HIFF) on Sunday, October 14, 2012.
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[@kathyt3300]

This was eye opening! I knew of the camps in the mainland, my parents were interned. But I didn't know there were internment camps in Hawaii. Excellent documentation of an unjust period of history.

[@jcchawaii]

Thank you for watching and sharing about your parents. Many people still do not know about the incarceration camps in Hawaiʻi.

[@stevenharris2064]

Excellent.

[@jcchawaii]

Appreciate your feedback!

[@andyvega5584]

Sadly a yearly later this should have more views. It should be shown in schools.

[@rebeccabilbrey3524]

Glad that the healing has started. There's so much to recover. I hope the younger ones will continue to embrace their heritage and learn from the grandmother's and grandfather's. So thankful my grandmother who was of Cherokee heritage instilled a desire to know about my heritage.

[@jcchawaii]

Yes, we need to continue to share our traditions and stories with the next generation!

[@galeediger]

My parents never talked about internment camps on Maui. Working at the sugar mills was not high ranking enough to be jailed.

[@jcchawaii]

Sometimes talking about incarceration was too painful for those who lived through it. We appreciate those who had the courage to share their experiences with us.

[@sogcezar]

The more we know where we came from the more we know we are heading towards… without our history we can not prepare ourselves for our future…

[@jcchawaii]

Yes, very insightful!

[@ahumbleoperatormcn3548]

Now, if only humanity would actually learn from their mistakes instead of repeating them. . . Well, we're already on the slippery slope. Just gotta catch ourselves and break our arms instead of our spine.

[@howardloewen1834]

Inouye said "our democracy" which is in error as the USA was raised up to be a constitutional republic where the individual has freedom.

[@marynelson4445]

This was too bad but our men were treated far worse.that doesn’t make right but that’s war

[@pennyatcheson8787]

What do you mean “our men”? These incarcerated were our men.

[@SephardicHawaiian]

You do realize that these were Japanese Americans, not soldiers from Japan? I was born and raised in Hawaiʻi and had both neighbors and a couple of our family doctors who were interned. They did absolutely nothing but be loyal Americans. Their sons served along side my dad, who was Portuguese American, in WWII.

[@uiPublic]

Japanese were targets enemy even if attacked at behest like Italy or Germany until Semitic camps copied placated Allies, Americans albeit double smart used their linguistics during & later on turning around Japan?!