During WWII, Japanese American servicemen from Hawaii formed a baseball team that drew local fans nearly everywhere they played. Samuel Yamashita's father was one of them.
hen I was growing up in a seaside suburb of Honolulu, one of the things I was absolutely sure of was that I would someday play for the New York Yankees. The story began long before I was born, as you’ll see, but I’m getting ahead of myself.The definition of American is elusive. But in this city shaped by immigrants, we know that it does not refer to a race, an ethnicity, or a birthplace. So we’re reaching out again.
Afterward, he went to work at the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, and played serious baseball on the side. The War Department was expecting a Japanese invasion of the islands, and the last thing they wanted was 1,400 men with Japanese faces manning Hawaii’s coastal defenses.At the time my dad had been dating my future mother, Margaret. She’d graduated in 1940 from Japan Women’s University in Tokyo, the Radcliffe of Japan.
The designation “separate” reminds us that our military was still very much segregated during World War II. The 100th Battalion was a segregated unit from Hawaii that had white and Japanese American officers. The enlisted men were almost exclusively Japanese American. My father even went all the way to Allentown, Pennsylvania to visit his brother, who was beginning his career as a surgeon after a residency in Philadelphia. Dad told me that when he arrived in his Army uniform, his brother advised him not to wear it — because he might get weird looks from locals as a Japanese American in uniform.
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