Japanese American Women

In this article, Leslie Ito describes the experiences of Japanese American women during their time behind the barded wired fence and their movement from camps to colleges . The article argues that while living in the camps these Japanese American women sought out to earn an educational degree and become representatives for their Japanese American communities. NJASRC a non-governmental committee group created by member of the Japanese American community became the driving force behind the movement from camps to college. This opened up greater opportunities for Japanese American women, more than they could have ever imagined. It gave these women the opportunity to leave the camp and go to college to become ambassadors for their community
She is currently the CEO and president of The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles. Students and anyone interested in the lives of Japanese American women during the student relocation movement are the main target audience for this article. This articles main goal is to educate readers about how significant of a role Japanese American women played in the Japanese American communities during this war time, their success and great lead in history was over shadowed by the young Japanese American soldiers. This article aims to bring light on those women who deserve it. Leslie Itos article is extremely useful in my study in this it describes to me and aspect of Japanese American women’s lives behind the fences that I didn’t know of and how their experiences in the internment camp encouraged them to go out and purse careers and succeed in life, so that no one else would have to go through what they went through. The article provides a lot of information and testimony of one of the few very important experiences that Japanese American women went