Please Remember We Were There Too Uncle: Stories of the Civilian Prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines During WW II edited by Sascha Jansen and Angus Lorenzen
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"We were there Too Uncle" is a double entendre. First, it is a reminder to many people who think the only Japanese civilians were held in internment camps by America, forgetting that the Japanese in East Asia held almost 14,000 American civilians, and over 100,000 of our Allies, under far worse conditions. Second it is a reminder to our government that, despite giving large bonuses to Japanese-Americans (and also Japanese-Japanese who returned to Japan after the war), they have not recognized the American civilians held as prisoners by the Japanese. As we finished compiling the book, it became amazing how dramatic, and devastating, the internment of Americans and Allies really was. Of 13,996 Americans held by Japan, 992 died, and 544 disappeared without any accountability."