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“War is the Mother of Civilization”: Reflections on the United States and Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tsurumi Shunsuke
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I lived in the United States from the age of 15 until I turned 19. When Japan went to war with America, I became a “hostile alien.” In 1942, I was sent to a detention center – a relocation camp.

I knew I was being detained unjustly, but fortunately I was treated fairly throughout my years of captivity. I was never tortured or abused.

In fact, I felt I was walking into a much worse prison when I returned to wartime Japan to find the nation completely in the grip of emperor worshipping totalitarianism.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 7 , July 2004 , e2
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