simpler words, the outcome was the same as if they had been put in guarded camps.Several years later, on September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrenders after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities of Japan. The Japanese in Canada were given a choice to be sent back to a war-ravaged Japan or be relocated east of the Rocky Mountains. In the bitterness and confusion, many Japanese opted to go to Japan. A total of around11, 000 wanted to go to Japan. In the interior camps of British Columbia, over 80 percent of the adults favored the repatriation. East of the Rockies, on the other hand, only 15 percent wished to leave. Subsequently two-thirds of those who had declared for repatriation changed their minds. The government was strict and argued that the decision to leave was evidence of the disloyalty the Japanese had Canada. In 1946, the government tried to deport 10,000 Japanese-Canadians but massive public protest made it impossible. In the end, only 4000 left Canada for Japan, all of them voluntarily. By the end of World War II, the Japanese community was shattered and the spirits of the people were broken. Of those who remained, the majority relocated on the prairies, where they found new homes and jobs and resumed their lives. Thus by 1949, only 30 percent of the 20000 Japanese in Canada still lived in British Columbia. The pattern and structure of Japanese Canadian society had been altered permanently.Not until after the War did Canada finally begin to accept Asians as part of their people and remove anti-Asian immigration restrictions. In the 1950s, racist immigration policies were lifted though a few remained in place. By the 1960s, restrictive laws were repealed and soon legal discrimination against Asians in Canada was a thing of the past and a lot of Asian immigrants once again started to come to Canada.The new generation of immigrants were very different from the earlier peasants who worked very h...
