Snow on cedars by david guterson5/14/2023 Hundreds of thousands of these immigrants arrived in the U.S. The socio-economic conditions of Japan in the latter half of the 19th century and into 20th century resulted in a significant increase of Japanese citizens leaving the country in search of more profitable opportunities elsewhere. They were met with wretched living conditions, such as overcrowding, harsh climates, and wholly inadequate living conditions. Over half of those relocated were citizens of the United States. Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fearing espionage, ordered the forced relocation of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the United States to internment camps located in the western United States. The plot of Snow Falling on Cedars unfolds across the backdrop of World War II and the Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States.
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