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Miller Freeman In the following excerpts from his written statement and oral testimony given before the Tolan Committee Hearings on National Defense Migration, publisher Miller Freeman argues that Japanese immigration to America was an attempt by the Japanese government to colonize the West Coast of the United States. In circumventing two attempts to restrict Japanese immigration to America, Freeman points out, the Japanese government was able to plant 300,000 of her people in the United States. Moreover, Freeman argues, though many residents of Japanese ancestry are American citizens, their loyalty to the United States is highly questionable because many of them were educated in Japan, where they were indoctrinated with Japanese militaristic propaganda. Also, Freeman argues, there was a conspicuous lack of condemnation of Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia by the Japanese American community. Because the loyalty of...
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