" Every week they heard new rumors.
The men and women would be put into separate camps. They would be sterilized. They would be stripped of their citizenship. They would be taken out onto the high seas and then shot.They would be sent to a desert island and left there to die. They would all be deported to Japan. They would never be allowed to leave America. They would be held hostage until every last American POW got home safely. They would be turned over to the Chinese for safekeeping right after the war.
You've been brought here for your own protection, they were told.
It was all in the interest of national security.
It was a matter of military necessity,
It was an opportunity for them to prove their loyalty. "

― Julie Otsuka , When the Emperor Was Divine