Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Tokyo Rose and Other Unpersons

Eric of isthatlegal.org asked readers of his blog for a title for his book about bureaucratic efforts to judge the loyalty of Japanese Americans interned during the Second World War. He received many suggestions, some serious and other not-so.
I suggested
Black Dragons (referring to the wholly imaginary secret society of Japanese Americans devoted to serving Tojo) and
Tokyo Rose and the Black Dragons
(it sounds like an adventure story, but after a moment you remember that both the arch-traitress Tokyo Rose and the sinister Black Dragon Society were fictions).

//Thge Magic 8-Ball says, "No-one will care".\\

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