May I ask the gentleman what to me is a very pertinent question? As the gentleman knows. subsequent to the Exclusion Act of 1924 a great many Japanese citizens who were in this country and had children born to them in this country returned. to Japan. In the years 1937. 1938. 1939. and 1940 the male children who had been born in the United States came back here and they were known as the Kibei. Practically all of them had been through the various schools in Japan. They constitute for the most part the 7.000 Japanese who have been taken into our relocation centers and separated from the other Japanese because they are considered to be subversive of the best interests of the United States In addition to these 7.000. a number still remain in Japan who were born here and who were not yet 21 years of age on December 7.
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