{"id":4801,"date":"2021-03-23T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:01:00","slug":"the-ghost-of-manzanar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/the-ghost-of-manzanar\/","title":{"rendered":"The ghost of Manzanar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The ghost of Manzanar\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/3dIkzLcUUNplqKMS0JEcye?si=ohD0D3teQ_eC760cf8qPsQ\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-450x294.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434-780x509.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2434.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. National Historic Site: Manzanar. \"At the beginning of World War II, 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were interned in concentration camps. At the beginning of World War II, 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were interned in concentration camps according to Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first of the ten concentration camps, was enclosed with barbed wire and guard towers where 10,000 people, mostly U.S. citizens, were confined. May the injustice and humiliation suffered here as a result of hysteria, racism, and economic exploitation never emerge again.\"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manuel Ortiz (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manuortize?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ManuOrtizE<\/a>). Peninsula 360 Press [<a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/\">P360P<\/a>].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist Giichi Matsumura was one of 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry who, without having committed any crime, were imprisoned by the United States government and forced to live in deplorable conditions in ten militarized concentration camps in remote areas of the country during World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2405.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar is one of the concentration camps where the U.S. government imprisoned and forced people of Japanese ancestry to live in deplorable conditions during World War II.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2390.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar was one of the ten concentration camps and is located at coordinates 36\u00b043\u203242\u2033N 118\u00b009\u203216\u2033W.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The concentration camps were set up in places with extreme weather conditions in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Matsumura was sent in 1942, along with his family, to the inhospitable Manzanar camp in the California desert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"concentration camps\" class=\"wp-image-4802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2376.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar was one of the concentration camps, located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, California, and between the towns of Lone Pine, to the south, and Independence, to the north, approximately 370 kilometers northeast of Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Summers in Manzanar reach 43 \u00b0C (110 \u00b0F), while in winter temperatures drop below freezing, with gusts of icy air blowing down from the Sierra Nevada mountain range that stands like an insurmountable rampart on one side of the camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4805\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2418.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Summers in Manzanar, one of the ten American concentration camps, reached 43 \u00b0C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The order to create concentration camps for Japanese was given after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. With this excuse, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 so that all persons of Japanese ancestry, of any age and without any criminal record, would be interned as \"an enemy race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2428.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar, once one of the concentration camps in the USA, is now a museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The forced confinement was devastating because it disintegrated many families and destroyed hundreds of lives, recalled in an article in Foreing Policy magazine actor George Takei, who at the time spoke out against the detention centers for Latin American migrants and family separation created by former President Donald Trump on the U.S.-Mexico border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"concentration camps\" class=\"wp-image-4809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. The historical exhibition shows the daily life of Manzanar, one of the U.S. concentration camps. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, in deplorable conditions, crammed together with innocent men, women and children in wooden-walled barracks without thermal insulation, victims of hatred and the violation of their most basic civil and human rights, Matsumura spent his last days. He died mysteriously in August 1945 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada where he supposedly went with friends to draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4808\" width=\"770\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2424.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar was located in the vicinity of Sierra Nevada, location of one of the ten concentration camps in the USA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some claim that Matsumura appears in the Sierra Nevada and that is why he was named the \"ghost of Manzanar\", a ghost that today, in the face of the colossal increase in hate attacks against Asian communities, appears across the country to remind us that this hatred, promoted in recent years by Trump, is historic and has been the cause of some of the darkest and most shameful episodes in the U.S., such as the Atlanta massacre, where eight Asian women were executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"concentration camps\" class=\"wp-image-4810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2421.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Inside Manzanar, you can see the conditions in which people were subjected during their confinement in the concentration camps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manzanar, which was once one of the American concentration camps. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/manz\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is now a museum<\/a> dedicated to the memory of the 110,000 incarcerated people of Japanese ancestry; it is now a National Historic Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"concentration camps\" class=\"wp-image-4811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429-780x521.jpg 780w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_2429.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Manzanar, which served as one of the American concentration camps, offers to know the history of the place that is now a museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Ortiz (@ManuOrtizE). Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. El artista Giichi Matsumura fue una de las 110 mil personas de ascendencia japonesa que, sin haber cometido delito alguno, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos encerr\u00f3 y oblig\u00f3 a vivir en condiciones deplorables en diez campos de concentraci\u00f3n militarizados en zonas remotas del pa\u00eds durante la Segunda [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,44,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usworld","8":"category-cover","9":"category-fotogaleria","10":"category-habitat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}