I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
I really love traveling to Japan.
Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.