With the talk of that time we rounded up the Japanese I think important background context is needed (thank you
@HTTP Error 404 for your insightful post).
When talking about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany the question is always asked, what went so wrong to cause such horrifying genocidal regimes to take power. The hell on earth that was WW1, the weimar Republic and all its ills in germany, the loss of substantial amounts of territory on Germany and Russia, the Russian civil war. Those events paint an apocalyptic picture which resulted in Hitler and Stalin.
Japan on the other hand was a different story. Starting at the Meiji restoration Japan went from a backwards feudal shit hole stuck in the dark ages to an industrialized nation in the span of a few short generations. They were not colonized and left all the technology, industry, and institutions. They actively studied the West and successfully integrated the workings of a modern society into their own. Japan joined WW1 for the purpose of plundering and taking German holdings in Asia, which that sort of thing was common for lesser powers in the great war. The key difference? Japan completely dodged the living nightmare of the great war in the trenches and actually came out of the war with what they wanted. Objectively leading up to the collapse of the civilian government into a fanatical militarist junta Japan was riding high. It honestly seems like that Japan had for no reason at all went completely insane and proceeded to try to take over the entirety of Asia. What ensued on the occupied people's was in the short reign of the Japanese was constant atrocities, far worse than what European colonial empires had done.
What's notable was the sheer fanaticism from the Japanese, iirc leading up the pearl harbor the garrison at Hawaii was more concerned with Japanese saboteurs. The idea of the kamikaze pilots doing literal suicide attacks because they were ordered is horrifying when you get down to it, compared to Muslim jihadi suicide bombers the entire region there has been in turmoil for a century and there is the promise of Paradise in the afterlife for doing it, the gooks did it because they were told.
I don't think the mostly first and second generation Japanese really could be trusted.
Also a side note Asians in the United states had faced a great deal of discrimination, for the Japanese this culminated into rounding them up into camps. Despite this the American Asian demographic is doing perfectly fine intergenerationally. It goes to show that it's the character of a people which determines how they perform in society.
