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Book Review
| Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. By Tetsuden Kashima. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 0-295-98299-3. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-295-98451-1.)
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| The Japanese American internment during World War II remains a popular topic for researchers. In the last decade, a spate of books appeared on the market, sparked by the discovery of relevant documents from many local and national government agencies, including the Japanese Foreign Ministry. But instead of developing new frameworks for understanding this tragic event of six decades ago, many rely on the old wineskin of the civil rights era to hold this new wine. Tetsuden Kashima, a University of Washington sociologist, typifies this approach in his Judgment without Trial. |
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