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Japanese students at the University of British Columbia were still participating in military training and would continue to do so, according to university president Klinck and Colonel Shrum.

All axis aliens over 14 will have to carry identification cards with their picture and fingerprint on it.

A letter writer to the Ubyssey, the newspaper at the University of British Columbia in Canada, urged the removal of Japanese in British Columbia and said it would be in the bests interests of the Japanese and the people of the province because it…

Speakers of the Japanese language were in short supply in the United States what with the war with Japan. Only a few universities offer instruction, and so the country is playing catch up to get more people knowledgeable about the enemy's language.…

A letter writer to the University of British Columbia's newspaper The Ubyssey asked a hypothetical question as to whether the Japanese in the province would defend the country in case of an invasion from Japan or would they join forces with the…

In Hawaii and the Philippines, there were reports of fifth column activity. In Hawaii aliens suspected of having pro-Japan sympathies were arrested; and in the Philippines, Japanese colonists in Davao were said to have surfaced in assisting Japan in…

With the public now resigned to the war, there was now a feeling of vengeance and an increase in patriotism and enlistment in the armed forces, while the Japanese populace was told to stay off the streets because of possible physical attacks.

Dmitri S. Zhirov, a letter writer to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, refuted the claims of a previous writer, Mildred Young, on the Nisei problem by pointing out that Nisei are Americans, and his association with them proved the falsehoods of Young's…

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested that enemy aliens be placed in concentration camps because this is war and those aliens can't be trusted.

Specified areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco were made off limits to axis alien enemies. Attorney General Francis Biddle made the announcement and said the aliens would have to move from those areas.