It may sound like a Fort Minor song, that's because it is a Fort Minor song :) . It's a song that I discovered just this day while I was looking for reviews of Minutes To Midnight. I found one that says Hands Held High is a sequel of Kenji. I decided to check it out.
After downloading (forgive me, please?) and listening to it, I was taken back to the 1940's during the Pearl Harbor bombing, the bombing of the two japanese cities and how a japanese family in the U.S.A. went through it.
It's mostly about how Kenji's (which is how Mike Shinoda calls his grandfather in this song) family was taken captive by the US goverment to prevent espionage. Their happy lives were now limited to two bags and a crowded camp.
When the war ended after the bombing of Nagazaki and Hiroshima, they were set free. They hoped for a new beginning, but with the memory of the war still fresh in people's minds, many were not happy with their return. Their house has been broken into and vandalised.
Here's how Mike Shinoda himself puts it:
"I'm half Japanese, and the song 'Kenji' is based on my family's story during WWII in an internment camp. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began a period of racial profiling. They put all the Japanese-Americans (and some other Asian-Americans) in secluded camps for the duration of the war. My dad was three years old, and had twelve brothers and sisters. My oldest aunt was in her twenties, and had four kids. Her youngest was born in Camp. Her husband died in Camp. They stayed there for the duration of the war, captive. Once they were released, they returned to vandalized homes and racial tension. That's what the song 'Kenji' is about. "-http://www.antimusic.com/morley/05/FortMinor.shtml
After downloading (forgive me, please?) and listening to it, I was taken back to the 1940's during the Pearl Harbor bombing, the bombing of the two japanese cities and how a japanese family in the U.S.A. went through it.
It's mostly about how Kenji's (which is how Mike Shinoda calls his grandfather in this song) family was taken captive by the US goverment to prevent espionage. Their happy lives were now limited to two bags and a crowded camp.
When the war ended after the bombing of Nagazaki and Hiroshima, they were set free. They hoped for a new beginning, but with the memory of the war still fresh in people's minds, many were not happy with their return. Their house has been broken into and vandalised.
Here's how Mike Shinoda himself puts it:
"I'm half Japanese, and the song 'Kenji' is based on my family's story during WWII in an internment camp. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began a period of racial profiling. They put all the Japanese-Americans (and some other Asian-Americans) in secluded camps for the duration of the war. My dad was three years old, and had twelve brothers and sisters. My oldest aunt was in her twenties, and had four kids. Her youngest was born in Camp. Her husband died in Camp. They stayed there for the duration of the war, captive. Once they were released, they returned to vandalized homes and racial tension. That's what the song 'Kenji' is about. "-http://www.antimusic.com/morley/05/FortMinor.shtml
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