In 1942,shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all the people of Japanese ancestry including native-born American citizens, were removed from the west Coast and incarcerated in relocation centers. There they were asked whether their loyalties were Japan or the United States the notorious "loyalty questionnaires" In a sense, the test was more painful to those people than the loss of property or the evacuation itself. Different answers by family or community members meant splitting families or communities, because the "no no boys" - the disloyals - were to be segregated and sent to a different camp. Some of them were even deported eventually back to Japan. By analyzing the diary of one repatriate, the present writer traces the struggle of a man with two quite different cultures to establish his national identity.