{"id":14415,"date":"2015-11-20T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14415"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:36:32","slug":"from-the-octnov-zephyr-camp-the-japanese-internment-1941-45-part-1-by-alan-mikuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/from-the-octnov-zephyr-camp-the-japanese-internment-1941-45-part-1-by-alan-mikuni\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Oct\/Nov Zephyr) Camp: The Japanese Internment, 1941-45. (Part 1) \u2026by Alan Mikuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specific words or phrases in the Japanese language describe how Japanese people deal with situations like they endured in World War II.\u00a0 The Japanese term, \u201cshikataganai\u201d, when translated means \u201cit cannot be helped.\u201d\u00a0 Another term, \u201cgaman\u201d is loosely translated as \u201cenduring the unbearable with dignity and silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understand the dangers of broad, sweeping generalizations about any group of people, but these terms characterize very well the demeanor of many Japanese-Americans, especially my parents, and how they felt about and dealt with the events surrounding their incarceration. Then, they found themselves having to move on with their lives in the aftermath. After the war, at mealtimes and during other Mikuni family times with my brothers, the subject was simply not discussed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Alan&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/camp-the-japanese-internment-1941-45-part-1-by-alan-mikuni\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mikuni7-e1443802994788.jpg\" alt=\"mikuni7\" width=\"550\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/camp-the-japanese-internment-1941-45-part-1-by-alan-mikuni\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/10\/02\/camp-the-japanese-internment-1941-45-part-1-by-alan-mikuni\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Specific words or phrases in the Japanese language describe how Japanese people deal with situations like they endured in World War II.\u00a0 The Japanese term, \u201cshikataganai\u201d, when translated means \u201cit cannot be helped.\u201d\u00a0 Another term, \u201cgaman\u201d is loosely translated as \u201cenduring the unbearable with dignity and silence.\u201d I understand the dangers of broad, sweeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}