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Numbat
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Numbat asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Japanese Americans in Japan WW2?

In the spring of 1948, the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was established in accordance with a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman to the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among the casualties were found many unintended victims including:

Some 3,200 Japanese American citizens.

What were these casualties doing in Japan? Why were they there?

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  • Ice
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    1 decade ago
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    This could include dual citizenships, or Japanese-Americans caught in Japan during the war.

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