After the interment ordeal the tasks and hardships of the Japanese-Americans were fell upon the Nisei generation. A majority of these people grew up into adulthood during the 1940s. They came out of the interment ordeal as active citizens and resolute to claim back their “place” in regular American society (Hatta). The active Japanese communities of Little Tokyo (in Los Angeles) and Japantown (in San Francisco) and other small communities on the West Coast severely
diminished during the war and post-war period. Whereas, some returned back to their original homes, a notable number of Japanese Americans moved to the Midwest or even across the country to the East Coast (Ibid).
