2004 Washington State Book Award Finalist Judgment without Trial
reveals that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.
government began making plans for the eventual internment and later
incarceration of the Japanese American population. Tetsuden Kashima
uses newly obtained records to trace this process back to the
1920s, when a nascent imprisonment organization was developed to
prepare for a possible war with Japan, and follows it in detail
through the war years. Along with coverage of the well-known
incarceration camps, the author discusses the less familiar and
very different experiences of people of Japanese descent in the
Justice and War Departments' internment camps that held internees
from the continental U.S. and from Alaska, Hawaii, and Latin
America. Utilizing extracts from diaries, contemporary sources,
official communications, and interviews, Kashima brings an array of
personalities to life on the pages of his book - those whose
unbiased assessments of America's Japanese ancestry population were
discounted or ignored, those whose works and actions were based on
misinformed fears and racial animosities, those who tried to remedy
the inequities of the system, and, by no means least, the prisoners
themselves. Kashima's interest in this episode began with his own
unanswered questions about his father's wartime experiences. From
this very personal motivation, he has produced a panoramic and
detailed picture - without rhetoric and emotionalism and supported
at every step by documented fact - of a government that failed to
protect a group of people for whom it had forcibly assumed total
responsibility.
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