Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawai’i is a collection of articles authored by University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu faculty from eig
Falgout (anthropology, U. of Hawai`i), Poyer (anthropology, U. of Wyoming), and Carucci (anthropology, Montana State U.) provide an ethnohistorical account of Micronesian cultural memories of World Wa
World War II was a watershed event for the people of the former Japanese colonies of Micronesia. The Japanese military build-up, the conflict itself, and the American occupation and control of the con
Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Whether they spe
