#hoshidan

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“Bugles of the Hokoku Seinen Dan”

After Tule Lake was turned into a “segregation” camp for “disloyal” Japanese and Japanese-Americans, groups of men began forming factions of militant resistance called the Hoshidan or Hokoku Seinsen Dan (the younger men’s group). While the leaders of these groups were aggressively pro-Japanese Empire, many purposes were served for those participating, and most were not rabid militants. The Hoshidan, which gathered its members, dressed in all white, every morning to perform drills, was a way to protest the horrible conditions of Tule Lake which was terribly mismanaged by administration. A jail (inside a jail) was constructed, as well as a stockade to hold people without trial, and tensions ran high when a man was killed in an avoidable labor accident. The hoshidan then served as a place to vent frustration and to reclaim agency and declare that one should not have to apologize for being of Japanese ancestry. 

It also served as a community, a place to get regular exercise, and a place to work on one’s Japanese, especially as most of these folks were preparing to repatriate back to Japan in the face of the US discriminatory policies in ww2. With tensions so high, people made rash decisions, like that of which to renounce their American citizenship -- a decision coerced by the US government and nativist groups. When one does not feel wanted, when one is imprisoned unjustly and then segregated further, well, I’ve always found the photographs of hundreds of men in white uniforms, in the face of armed guards and cruel administration, marching, engaging in drills, and in this photo, sounding a mass bugle call, honestly, I find this inspiring. Certainly, anyone who aligned with Japan’s imperial policy I have nothing but disagreement with (see Vietnam during ww2), but in the crazy atmosphere of Tule Lake, people locked up, shipped off to another level of prison camps in Santa Fe or Bismark, folks feeling stateless, confused, and unwanted, drifting... yeah, I probably would have been marching with these boys, or at least smiling from the sidelines, writing a song about them. 

Can’t you just imagine the sound of hundreds of throats yelling, two dozen bugles resonating, those men in white marching. It’s frightening, but, not unjustified. Not in the least. 

Original WRA caption: Bugle Corps of Hokoku Seinen Dan gather at Gate 1 to give proper send off to 125 of their number being sent to Santa Fe Internment Camp March 4, 1945.

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