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QUESTIONS: Look at the photos below and listen to the song, "Kenji," featured on the album, The Rising Tied, by Fort Minor, a side project of Linkin Park band member, Mike Shinoda, a Japanese American whose father's family was interned at a relocation camp during World War II. Read the lyrics to "Kenji" while listening to the song, which includes samples of interviews Shinoda conducted with his father and aunt. In an interview with the Metro Silicon Valley, Shinoda said that he played the song for his family before he made it public, noting that his “…uncle, who is a very stoic Japanese guy, cried when he heard the song” (“Summer of ’42”). How do the lyrics of the song convey the negative effects of internment on the psyche of Japanese Americans? Do you think the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was justified? Why or why not?