List of Japanese-Cubans sent to internment camps during World War II found

[Judi Lynn]

Kyodo
Oct 30, 2016

HAVANA – A list of about 350 Japanese-Cubans sent to internment camps by the Cuban government during World War II was found in the Caribbean nation recently, shining a light on a long-forgotten episode in its history.

A copy of the list of Japanese immigrants to Cuba and their descendants, compiled by an immigrant interned in one of the camps, was handed to Japanese journalists affiliated with Kyodo News in October when they visited the country.

“Little is known about the Japanese-Cubans as we are small in number. I’ll be glad if the list helps people learn about our history,” said Francisco Miyasaka, 78, a second-generation Japanese-Cuban and head of the Japanese-Cuban association in Havana, who found the list and handed it to the journalists.

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In Cuba, the pro-American administration of President Fulgencio Batista followed the U.S. lead and arrested about 350 Japanese-Cuban men over the age of 18 among the 420 such men in the country and relocated them to a jailhouse in Isla de la Juventud in western Cuba.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/10/30/national/history/list-japanese-cubans-sent-internment-camps-world-war-ii-found/#.WBpnY0kzXmQ

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Japanese-Cubans? Really?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Fulencio Batista, the death-squad employer, and Mafia cohort was a US puppet

serving US interests for over 30 years, in one capacity or another.

They also have a Chinese population in Havana, with their own "Chinatown," and a large culture of Haitian people who fled Haiti's violence to live in Cuba. Those Haitians have the second largest language in Cuba, as well as their own radio stations, and newspapers, etc.

Cuba has an enormous African-Cuban population, as the greedy Spanish and other plantation owners brought them over to do back-breaking work, after they killed off the indigenous population to do their slave work. Some of those indigenous people committed suicide, after the monsters stole their homeland, raped and abused the women, children, enslaved everyone. A vast part of Cuban people are also African European descendants.