Well, if they were using Japanese textbooks from Japan of that time, then yeah, they were full of propaganda. But there's a huge amount that is unknown in that primary source document. We don't know which textbooks were being used. Were they language textbooks, which might be pretty light on the propaganda, and heavy on the simple grammar and kanji memorization. Science and math textbooks might have very little or no propaganda. History textbooks, on the other hand, would assuredly have a heavily biased, propaganda-rich quality. But how were those taught? There's a lot of room for individual teacher decision making. And saying that the schools are controlled by the Japanese government is extremely heavy-handed and a logical stretch. In fact, the guy above doesn't even claim there was any first-hand involvement by the Japanese government in the schools--it was just that there were governmentally approved textbooks, as all school textbooks had to be approved by the government. So there's a "yellow peril" quality to the Memorandum, in which Japanese-Americans doing culturally Japanese things are framed as being propagandistic indoctrination. Given the small number of Americans not of Japanese descent who spoke Japanese, it's unlikely that anyone read any of the textbooks with any attention before making that statement. So there's a lot in this situation that leads to skepticism. Yeah, if history textbooks were used, they had propaganda in them, but other textbooks would likely have had little, except perhaps a note of thanks to the emperor It's unlikely the Memorandum was written based on any actual reading of the textbooks. And given the overwhelming evidence that the US acted in a hysterical and racist fashion to Japanese-Americans who hadn't done anything wrong, one can't take as fact the word of any Memorandum from somebody who worked for the "Alien Enemy Control Unit," since the "Alien Enemies" were usually Americans and not enemies at all. I'd be curious if those schools had a photo of the Emperor in each room. Such was the case in Japan. Yet all the same, that doesn't really prove what people felt about the emperor. In the end, since there were no cases of Japanese-American subversive activity in the US (unlike the case among German-Americans at the same time), the evidence points to no indoctrination of Japanese-Americans in Japanese schools in the US.