Was there any animosity between Chinese and Japanese during Second Sino Japanese War and leading up to (Waipahu: high school)

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Was there any animosity between chinese and japanese settlers during the Second Sino Japanese War, and the period leading up to it?

Also during the Japanese internment period, did Hawaiian Japanese get interned as well?

[merced mullet]

I can only speak for my early Pake Kaua'i settler family. I could not find any animosity between my mother's first island-born generation and the first generation Nisei that she attended grammer school through high school (1920-1933). Thumbing thru her high school yearbooks there were lots of friendly and joyus "banter" about growing together with same folks on that small island (there was only one high school on Kaua'i at that time). Even after high school graduation I recall how fondly my parents, aunts and uncles remembered their Japanese childhood friends. On the other hand, I did not sense much camaraderie with the kanaka.
As far as my China born grandparents who came to Kaua'i in the late 1890s I never talked to them about how they got along with the other immigrants from Japan and Korea during that period. Might be something I'd be interested in researching thru the Kaua'i Historical Society though.

[merced mullet]

Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133

Also during the Japanese internment period, did Hawaiian Japanese get interned as well?

I don't believe any Japanese on Kaua'i were sent to an internment camp.
I will say several headstones at the Kapa'a Buddhist Cemetery reflect service in the 442 Regimental Combat Team ("Go For Broke!") during WW2

[whtviper1]

Originally Posted by merced mullet

I don't believe any Japanese on Kaua'i were sent to an internment camp.

Camps on all the major islands.....

Internment Camps in Hawai

[ScottStielow]

Honouliuli Internment Camp
Located in the Honouliuli Gulch, 160 acres in the west of Waipahu, the Honouliuli Internment Camp became the largest prisoner of war camp in Hawai‘i by March 1943, holding approximately 320 internees and 4,000 individuals from Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea and Italy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

[MrCoffee808]

My maternal grandmother is Chinese and she married into a Japanese family. She said that there was some resistance to a Japanese boy marrying a Chinese girl but she was generally well treated by her inlaws.

[merced mullet]

Originally Posted by whtviper1

Camps on all the major islands.....

Wow! That's interesting! I need to ask some of the old-timers in town about those camps!
Good to know! Thanks!