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    "ocrText": "thouglits,\" professors thrown out of their positions for daring to\nBut some of the most important aspects of America's relationship\nteach history instead of myths, and politicians who defied the\nwith defeated Japan would be ignored if. we were to stop with\nwarlords, even after Pearl Harbor. Though without power, they\nwhat is happening in Tokyo.\nwere articulate. Hirohito's amnesty of October 17, 1945, par-\nAt present Japan is isolated from the rest of Asia and the world,\ndoned 320,000 persons, reduced the jail sentences of 37,000, and\nlike a patient with an infectious disease. But this state of affairs,\nrestored the civil rights of 600,000. There is hope for the future\nno matter how many years it may last, is temporary. The time\nin the fact that one in seventy-five Japanese has been in jail, in a\nmust come when Japan will once again take her place in the\nconcentration camp, or under police surveillance-although many\ninterplay of Asiatic and world relationships. In this broader pat-\nof them had been loyal subjects, imprisoned through police stu-\ntern the fate of the Japanese will depend in part on factors other\npidity or the false accusations of enemies.\nthan their own political, social, and economic rehabilitation.\nModern science maintains that children are not born into the\nIf the United Nations develop into the guiding and controlling\nworld equipped with what we call \"racial traits.\" Japanese youth\npower in world affairs, Japan's destiny will depend upon her\nare not brutal or fanatical by nature, but by training. Home,\nacceptance into the family of nations and the manner in which she\nschool, and conscription set the pattern. Most Japanese-American\nfulfills her obligations. If, however, the second half of our century\nhigh school students in Honolulu or Los Angeles share the faults\nis to be only a continuation of the first, with the world divided\nand the good qualities of their \"white\" classmates. A number of\ninto spheres of influence among the great powers, a weakened but\nthem died on the battlefields of Italy and France. With few excep-\nstill vigorous Japan may become an important pawn in the strug-\ntions, Americans of Japanese ancestry have been good and useful\ngle for economic and political domination.\ncitizens.\nThere is overwhelming evidence that her part will be that of a\nThe answer for millions of Japanese young people who have\nsmall and relatively weak nation, whether world cooperation or\nnot enjoyed the same advantages is education, not only in the\npower politics sets the pattern. Defeat cost Japan not only her\nschoolroom, but through all channels of public information and\n\"great power\" status but also her position of leadership in the Far\nindoctrination. As in Germany, the generation of young men who\nEast. If she had conducted her campaign of \"Asia for the Asiatics\"\nfought this war may have to be marked down as a partial loss.\nwith greater vision and sincerity, she might have won and retained\nAttention can, perhaps, be more profitably concentrated on older\nsome measure of respect and regard among the subject peoples of\nmen and women who remember happier days after the First\nAsia and the Pacific, even in defeat. Her shortsighted policies of\nWorld War, and on the children who have not yet been deeply\noppression and exploitation, together with the doctrine of racial\nindoctrinated with the myths of divine race and bushido.\nsuperiority, have made her claims to inspired leadership a mock-\nery in every area she invaded.\n\"ASIA FOR THE ASIATICS\"\nJapan may recover some of her economic advantages, but only\nIn its earlier sections this discussion has been concerned chiefly\nthrough an almost superhuman effort. Her overseas resources are\nwith conditions and events within the Japanese home islands.\ngone: her industrial power dismantled or shattered. Her only\n84\n85"
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