Japanese American World War II Incarceration and The Spoilage, 1946

Dorothy Thomas Richard Nishimoto

First Edition

Thomas, Dorothy S. and Nishimoto, Richard. The Spoilage: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1946, documents the wartime removal, incarceration, classification, segregation, and resettlement system imposed on Japanese Americans by the United States government during World War II. The book supports research into Japanese American incarceration, civil liberties, wartime racial policy, Tule Lake, loyalty classification, and the sociological study of forced displacement. Produced from the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study at the University of California, Berkeley, it records how government policy and camp administration shaped the experiences of people labeled “disloyal” within the incarceration system.

Thomas, Dorothy S. and Nishimoto, Richard. The Spoilage: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First edition. 388 pages. Original red cloth binding with title stamped on front cover and authors, title, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. No dust jacket. The volume uses records, interviews, field observation, and contributions by Japanese American research participants, including Richard Nishimoto, to examine the consequences of exclusion, detention, loyalty registration, segregation, renunciation, and proposed repatriation. Densho identifies The Spoilage as focused especially on Tule Lake and on the population categorized by authorities as “disloyal.”

The book documents the incarceration administration system through sociological evidence, interviews, official records, and camp-based observation, revealing how federal classification and confinement practices produced coercive choices for Japanese Americans under wartime conditions. Minor staining to cloth boards; binding tight; pages clean; overall very good condition. A major early postwar study of Japanese American incarceration and one of the central documentary sources on Tule Lake, loyalty, and civil rights violations during World War II.

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