I am happy to feature Robyn Echols who is one of the eight  authors in a very interesting WW2 anthology of historical fiction in that era.

   Robyn's story, I AM AN AMERICAN, is unique in that it is written from the point of view of two teen-aged girls. One is a first-generation Japanese girl in rural California. The other, her only friend, one of German heritage.
Together they face the bigotry that rose up at the dime of the Pearl Harbor invasion.
    Having raised two daughters, I don't know of a more sensitive time in life there is than the teen years. Add to that, the girls  having to deal with the blind hatred many Americans had for the Issei (Japanese immigrants) and Nisei (their children).
This is what caught my attention when reading this fine collection of stories.

   I'll let Robyn continue:

   Kyutaro Abiko, a wealthy San Francisco businessman who had emigrated from Japan to the United States after becoming a Christian, fulfilled his dream to provide a place in the United States to where Christian Japanese farmers might come for better opportunity and where they could practice their religion. In 1906 he organized the Yamato Colony in Livingston, California, a small community in the San Joaquin Valley west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It expanded to include Cressey and Cortez. In the early part of the century up through The Great War, Japan was an ally of the United States. However, while the one hundred Japanese immigrant families and their American-born children in the United States peacefully pursued their agricultural activities while striving to be accepted by their Caucasian neighbors, the politics of Japan changed.
  
    The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the next day the President of United States calls for a declaration of war on Japan and Germany. For the families of two Livingston, California, USA high school seniors, Ellen Okita, a first generation American who lives in the Yamato Colony composed of about 100 families of Japanese descent, and Flo Kaufmann, whose father is a first generation American in his family, the war hits home fast and brings unforeseen changes.
 
Here is an Excerpt from I am an American:
          Yamamoto had been surprised how quickly the dispute had resolved itself. Not wanting to lose him, the decision was made to go forward with the Hawaii Operation. Yamamoto issued Operation Order Number 1. Included were these key instructions:
          In the East the American fleet will be destroyed. The American lines of operation and supply lines to the Orient will be cut. Enemy forces will be intercepted and annihilated. Victories will be exploited to break the enemy’s will to fight.
          Would the Americans’ will to fight be broken? With their independent natures and apparent lack of collective direction, would they band together to meet a common foe? With what understanding of the American mind-set he possessed, Yamamoto suspected they would. They would not be compelled by blind loyalty to their president, but rather by their untamable spirit of free thinking and loyalty to what they believed to be right.
          Yamamoto resisted the pressure to set December first as the date for the Hawaii Operation. He knew enough about Americans to know the best day of the week was a Sunday. Americans had a tendency to relax that day. Duty assignments would be kept at a minimum to allow the men their recreation. It was also the most likely day for most of the fleet to be in the harbor so their men could enjoy shore leave.
          X-Day was set for the morning of December 7, 1941.