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Shared Yamamoto surname stirs opposition to naming school to honor WW2 Internee
- masonic 9y agoTL;DR: "Others acknowledged Fred Yamamoto, a 1936 Palo Alto High School graduate held in a Japanese internment camp during World War II who later joined the U.S. Army, is an inspirational figure, but said a school named after him would just cause confusion among Asian-Americans (just because he has the same surname as the unrelated WW2 Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamato)... One parent said giving a school the Yamamoto surname is akin to naming a school with Jewish students after Adolf Hitler..." Web title: "Palo Alto: Pearl Harbor memories stir parents to oppose school name change", but the Pearl Harbor reference is falsified clickbait; the objections have nothing to do with Pearl Harbor but instead stem from with I. Yamamoto's actions in the far East.