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The Architecture of Confinement
  • Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War
  • Anoma Pieris, Lynne Horiuchi
  • Published online:
    17 February 2022
    Print publication:
    24 February 2022
  • In this global and comparative study of Pacific War incarceration environments we explore the arc of the Pacific Basin as an archipelagic network of militarized penal sites. Grounded in spatial, physical and material analyses focused on experiences of civilian internees, minority citizens, and enemy prisoners of war, the book offers an architectural and urban understanding of the unfolding history and aftermath of World War II in the Pacific. Examples are drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, and North America. The Architecture of Confinement highlights the contrasting physical facilities, urban formations and material character of various camps and the ways in which these uncover different interpretations of wartime sovereignty. The exclusion and material deprivation of selective populations within these camp environments extends the practices by which land, labor and capital are expropriated in settler-colonial societies; practices critical to identity formation and endemic to their legacies of liberal democracy.

  • Chapter 4 - The Cultures of Japanese Internment

  • from Part I - Transitions Approached through Concepts and History
  • Edited by Victor Bascara, University of California, Los Angeles, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965
    Published online:
    27 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 68-86

  • Summary

    The cultures implicated in the government’s wartime displacement of Japanese Americans should be recognized as including many immigrant laborer communities, both Japanese and non-Japanese, both in the USA and beyond its southern border, as well as before, during and even long after World War II. The economic dispossession and social reformation of Japanese communities in the USA was, for example, coordinated with the wartime deportation and military strategy applied to Japanese laborers in South America, and both processes were in turn the beneficiaries of the government’s Depression-era removal of Mexican migrant laborers in the Southwest in an attempt to constrict that community’s economic opportunities. The internment was, thus, not a glitch in the steady protocols of democracy for immigrants in the USA, much less one that was un-anticipated, nor is it one whose violent logic has yet been exhausted. The study of the cultures of internment, thus extended, opens up a horizon of political and historical possibilities only just beginning to be accounted for in scholarly research and creative expression.

  • Dietary soy isoflavone intake in older Japanese American women

  • Madeline Murguia Rice, Andrea Z LaCroix, Johanna W Lampe, Gerald van Belle, Mark Kestin, Megumi Sumitani, Amy Borenstein Graves, Eric B Larson
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 4 / Issue 5 / October 2001
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2007, pp. 943-952
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  • Objective:

    In a sample of older Japanese American women, we aimed to: (1) describe the most commonly consumed soy foods, (2) estimate dietary soy isoflavone intake, (3) describe characteristics associated with dietary soy isoflavone intake, and (4) compare our estimates with previously published estimates in other Japanese samples.

    Design:

    A 14-item soy food-frequency questionnaire was administered to older Japanese American women and responses were converted to quantitative estimates of soy isoflavones (genistein plus daidzein). Multiple regression was used to examine characteristics associated with dietary soy isoflavone intake, including self-reported lifestyle and cultural factors and dietary intake of various foods ascertained from a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire. To compare our estimates with other samples, a review of the literature was conducted.

    Setting/subjects:

    Data are from 274 women aged 65+ years, recruited from a longitudinal cohort study of Japanese Americans in King County, Washington State.

    Results:

    The soy foods most commonly consumed were tofu (soybean curd), miso (fermented soybean paste) and aburaage (fried thin soybean curd). The mean intake of dietary soy isoflavones was 10.2 (standard deviation (SD), 12.4) mg day−1, approximately a quarter to a half that of previously published estimates in Japanese samples. Dietary soy isoflavone intake was positively associated with speaking Japanese, the consumption of traditional Japanese dishes (kamaboko, manju and mochi), low-fat/non-fat milk and yellow/red vegetables, vitamin E supplement use, and walking several blocks each day. Dietary soy isoflavone intake was negatively associated with the consumption of butter.

    Conclusions:

    The estimated dietary soy isoflavone intake in Japanese American women living in King County, Washington State was about a quarter to a half that of women living in Japan. Dietary soy isoflavone intake was associated with speaking Japanese and healthy lifestyle and dietary habits.