Thousands of Japanese-American men renounced their loyalty to the U.S. and demanded repatriation to Japan during World War II.
Researchers autopsied the brains of 426 Japanese-American men who lived in Hawaii and died at an average age of 87.
Despite the internments, Mr. Okihiro pointed out, 26,000 Japanese-American men and women served in the United States armed forces.
Peter as "DD", a mysterious Japanese-American man who appears in Kamuro-cho around the time that the events begin.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 650 Japanese-American men who were considered high risk were interned at the camp.
He also noted that the Honolulu Heart Study showed a substantial decrease in coronary mortality among Japanese-American men who drank alcohol, "and what these men mostly drink is beer, not wine."
Indeed, to prove their loyalty, many Japanese-American men volunteered in the Second World War, even as their families were forced into internment camps as "enemy aliens."
The study involved 3,735 Japanese-American men who enrolled in a heart study in the 1960's and were tracked through the early 1990's.
Beginning in June of 1942, the Department of Justice held 826 Japanese-American men in a Civilian Conservation Corps facility which had been acquired for the purpose.
When asked by the ACLU, she and her husband provided employment for a Japanese-American man recently released from an American internment camp.