The destruction of Shinto shrines in Hawaii and the West Coast during World War II: the lingering effects of Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American internment

Abe, David K.; Imamura, Allison

doi:10.1080/1683478x.2019.1592816

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“…research materials, such as government archival records (Graulich, 2004;Hastings, 2011;Parker, 2013;Parks, 2004;Thiesmeyer, 1995); historical newspapers (Kamp-Whittaker and Clark, 2019;Thiesmeyer, 1995); documentary images (Emmett, 2013;Smith, 2012;Wenger, 2007); films and novels relating to that period of history (Cheung, 2008;Degi, 2008;Obayashi, 2016); artefacts (Kamp-Whittaker, 2020;Kamp-Whittaker and Clark, 2019); performances and arts in the detention sites (Hirasuna, 2013); and survivors' interviews (Abe and Imamura, 2019;Yates et al, 2007). After historians' tireless efforts, it is now generally recognized that the removal of over 100,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans to concentration camps was not motivated by legitimate security concerns (Shaffer, 1999).…”

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“…Moreover, the incarceration brought lingering cultural effects on Japanese Americans. Within Japanese American communities on the West Coast and Hawaii, Shinto shrines and kamidana, both of which are essential Japanese American cultural heritage, disappeared due to the intense pressure from the stigma, hate and misperception surrounding them (Abe and Imamura, 2019). The disruption of cultural inheritance and identity (Yates et al, 2007) brought psychological trauma to internees and created transgenerational impacts for Japanese Americans.…”

Section: Densho Digital Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There has been a large volume of scholarship on the Japanese American incarceration history. Scholars, in particular historians, have thoroughly examined multiple types of research materials, such as government archival records (Graulich, 2004; Hastings, 2011; Parker, 2013; Parks, 2004; Thiesmeyer, 1995); historical newspapers (Kamp-Whittaker and Clark, 2019; Thiesmeyer, 1995); documentary images (Emmett, 2013; Smith, 2012; Wenger, 2007); films and novels relating to that period of history (Cheung, 2008; Degi, 2008; Obayashi, 2016); artefacts (Kamp-Whittaker, 2020; Kamp-Whittaker and Clark, 2019); performances and arts in the detention sites (Hirasuna, 2013); and survivors’ interviews (Abe and Imamura, 2019; Yates et al. , 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection

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Purpose This study aims to explore the applications of natural language processing (NLP) and data analytics in understanding large-scale digital collections in oral history archives. Design/methodology/approach NLP and data analytics were used to analyse the oral interview transcripts of 904 survivors of the Japanese American incarceration camps collected from Densho Digital Repository, relying specifically on descriptive analysis, keyword extraction, topic modelling and sentiment analysis (SA). Findings The researchers found multiple geographic areas of large residential communities of ethnic Japanese people and the place names of the concentration camps. The keywords and topics extracted reflect the deplorable conditions and militaristic nature of the camps and the forced labour of the internees. When remembering history, the main focus for the narrators remains the redress and reparation movement to obtain the restitution of their civil rights. SA further found that the forcible removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during Second World War negatively impacted and brought deep trauma to the narrators. Originality/value This case study demonstrated how NLP and data analytics could be applied to analyse oral history archives and open avenues for discovery. Archival researchers and the general public may benefit from this type of analysis in making connections between temporal, spatial and emotional elements, which will contribute to a holistic understanding of individuals and communities in terms of their collective memory.

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“…In Japanese and diasporic homes, you may also find a domestic altar called a kamidana (lit. "kami shelf"), although surveys suggest that the majority of households do not have kamidana, and those numbers continue to decline (Hardacre 2016;Abe and Imamura 2019). Due to their geographic distance from Shinto shrines, the "spiritual center" for many global Shinto practitioners' ritual practice is the kamidana (Iwamura 2003, p. 275).…”

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Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings

Ugoretz

2022

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Scholars of Japanese religion have recently drawn attention to the global repositioning, “greening”, and international popularization of Shinto. However, research on Shinto ritual practice and material religion continues to focus predominantly on cases located within the borders of the Japanese state. This article explores the globalization of Shinto through transnational practitioners’ strategic glocalization of everyday ritual practices outside of Japan. Drawing upon digital ethnographic fieldwork conducted in online Shinto communities, I examine three case studies centering on traditional ritual offerings made at the domestic altar (kamidana): rice, sake, and sakaki branches. I investigate how transnational Shinto communities hold in tension a multiplicity of particularistic understandings of Shinto locality and authenticity when it comes to domestic ritual practice. While relativistic approaches to glocalization locate the sacred and authentic in an archetypical or idealized form of Japanese tradition rooted in its environment, creolization and transformation valorize the particularities of one’s personal surroundings and circumstances. Examining these strategies alongside recent and historical cases in Shinto ritual at shrines within Japan, I propose that attending to processes of “parallel glocalization” helps to illuminate the quasi-fictive notion of the religious “homeland” and close the perceived gap in authenticity between ritual practices at home and abroad.

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Occupied! A preliminary archaeological examination of the remains of the Japanese invasion and occupation of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean during World War II

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Fyfe

2020

Journal of Conflict Archaeology

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The destruction of Shinto shrines in Hawaii and the West Coast during World War II: the lingering effects of Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American internment

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection

Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection

Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings

Occupied! A preliminary archaeological examination of the remains of the Japanese invasion and occupation of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean during World War II

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