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- They lived in barrack-like conditions, standing in long lines for little food, eating off tin pie plates in big mess halls. They were fed government commodity foods and castoff meat from Army surplus — hot dogs, ketchup, kidneys, Spam and potatoes.
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Sometimes the starchy meals served in the mess halls and sugary sundries for sale in the canteens presented health challenges for Japanese Americans with special dietary needs. Akiyo Deloyd remembered that the food at the Santa Anita Assembly Center—macaroni, potatoes, and bread—exacerbated her mother’s diabetes.
Food in the Occupation of Japan. The U.S. Occupation of Japan lasted from 1945 to 1952 after the Japanese surrendered on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. During this period, the Japanese government retained the country's rationing system, which was implemented during the war to preserve resources. [1]
The rations issued by the Imperial Japanese Government usually consisted of rice with barley, meat or fish, pickled or fresh vegetables, umeboshi, shoyu sauce, miso or bean paste, and green tea. A typical field ration would have 1½ cups of rice, usually mixed with barley to combat nutritional deficiencies such as beriberi . [3]
From 1942 to 1945, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes in the Pacific Northwest and sent to live in internment camps after Pearl Harbor. The government saw them as a threat to the military and thought they were too dangerous to live on the west coast.
Wartime textbooks were filled with references to “Japan,” its ruling family, and the country’s divine origins. They introduced the paraphernalia of war—helmets, canteens, tanks, and aircraft—and described servicemen as conquerors and occupiers who were willing to die for their monarch and country.
Dec 20, 2007 · After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in federal camps. Internment changed the traditional Japanese diet and erased the family table.
