The “conduct of Japan and her military forces” had everything to do with relocation and internment. World War II interrupted this general Nikkei progress and without it there would have been no relocation, nor internment. At the advent of World War II there was no large-scale movement to remove the Nikkei from the West Coast and there was virtually no prospect that there would ever be one. This unlikelihood stemmed from the impressive adaptation of the Japanese Americans, especially to West Coast economics and society and the inexorable decline of the Issei. For no fault of their own, the Issei were the principal stumbling block to Nikkei acceptance and they were dying out each year, thus removing the principal rationale for exclusion and the principal symbol of Imperial influence and control of the Nikkei. That demographic decline denied anti-Japanese demagogues of one of their principal weapons. This was widely recognized by sophisticated observers at the time, such as Navy expert on Japanese Americans, Kenneth D. Ringle, and West Coast residents in general were rapidly coming to share this epiphany.