| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1 | The History Cooperative

*American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II*. By Eric L. Muller. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 197 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.50.)
In American Inquisition, Muller examines the conflicting processes of mid-level U. S. officials, who evaluated the loyalty of some 40,000 Japanese American internees during World War II. The mid-level officials assumed that disloyalty implied a danger to national security, yet evaluated loyalty under differing missions. The Japanese American Joint Board (JAJB), an investigative venture of the War Department and the Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA), was created to determine who could work for the war effort. Given this raison d'être, the JAJB developed racist and suspicious criteria, which determined that nearly a third of the internees evaluated were not fit for release.	1
Although it participated in the JAJB, the WRA's specific mission was to intern and release Japanese Americans, and hence needed to prove that some internees were safe for release and that all others were being confined. The WRA dealt daily with the Japanese American internees and had to manage the controversies that were caused by loyalty investigations. With contact and a motivation to release internees, the WRA developed a less stringent set of criteria.	. . .

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