475 Japanese American Internment Camps

Race tracks and fairgrounds are a few examples of makeshift temporary camps in Phase 1 (Estes). During Phase 1 permanent camps were being built for Phase 2 of the Japanese Internment. Phase 2 camps were surrounded by barbed wire fences and evacuees lived in barracks. Each block of barracks only had one set of bathrooms, one laundry room, one ironing room, a cafeteria, and a recreation facility (Estes). Also Phase 2 camps tried to make life more normal for Japanese Americans by providing stores, hospitals, and self government to the evacuees (Relocation of Japanese Americans). Stores were the only way to get goods not given to you or that an evacuee brought. Also they were one of the only forms of employment for the Japanese Americans. Also any additional money had to have come from selling their belongings before coming on the trip. Remember that they had to sell their property and belongings for way below their actual value. All jobs paid similar low wages which led to issues for the Japanese Americans. Many of these issues destroyed their Japanese culture (McGrath). One issue was that children were earning as much money as their parents. This led to parents losing control of their children and destroying father son relationships. Another issue was that families no longer shared meal time together as children chose to eat with their friends. This was one of many Japanese traditions that vanished during their time in internment camps. Also

On December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, "a date which will live in infamy"(http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166/), sending America into a widespread panic, and anger. This day is what caused us to do something that no one would of thought we would ever do. We created internment camps here in America after signing executive order 9066, which authorized the relocation of all Japanese here in the US to those dreaded internment camps. The conditions were bad but not as bad as they were in Germany where millions of Jews died. After the war the remaining internees were freed to go rebuild their lives, during their captivity they were many legal cases against the Japanese internment, but fear overcame what was right.

Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized “Executive order 9066”. Which made More than 110,000 Japanese in the U.S to relocate to internment camps for reason of “national security”. The United States feared that they’re could have been Japanese spies inside America so the government relocated most Japanese immigrants to camps. It was one of the saddest moments in America that the government of America took actions on innocent people just because their heritage. America’s internment camps are similar yet different to Hitler’s concentrations camps.

When Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942,1 thousands of Japanese-American families were relocated to internment camps in an attempt to suppress supposed espionage and sabotage attempts on the part of the Japanese government. Not only was this relocation based on false premises and shaky evidence, but it also violated the rights of Japanese-Americans through processes of institutional racism that were imposed following the events of Pearl Harbor. Targeting mostly Issei and Nisei citizens, first and second generation Japanese-Americans respectively,2 the policy of internment disrupted the lives of families, resulting in a loss of personal property, emotional distress,

Japanese internment camps from 1942 to 1946 were an exemplification of discrimination, many Japanese Americans were no longer accepted in their communities after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were perceived as traitors and faced humiliation due to anti-Japanese sentiment causing them to be forced to endure several hardships such as leaving behind their properties to go an imprisoned state, facing inadequate housing conditions, and encountering destitute institutions. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941 (Why I Love a Country that Once Betrayed Me). This led president Roosevelt to sign the executive order 9066, which authorized the army to remove any individual that seemed as a potential threat to the nation (“Executive Order 9066”) This order allowed the military to exclude “‘any or all persons from designated areas, including the California coast.”’ (Fremon 31). Many Japanese opposed to leave the Pacific Coast on their own free will (Fremon 24) . Japanese Americans would not be accepted in other areas if they moved either.Idaho’s governor stated, Japanese would be welcomed “only if they were in concentration camps under guard”(Fremon 35). The camps were located in Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and California where thousands of Japanese Americans eventually relocated. (“Japanese Americans at Manzanar”) The internment lasted for 3 years and the last camp did not close until 1946. (Lessons Learned: Japanese Internment During WW2)

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, many people were dubious towards many Japanese-Americans and believed they were working with Japan. With this, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, moving several Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, calling it a “military necessity” (Ewers 1). When this happened, many Japanese-Americans lost everything they had owned such as houses, farms, and their rights as American citizens.

On February 19th 1942, Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066. Under the terms of the order, people of Japanese descent were placed in internment camps. The United States’ justification for this abominable action was that the Japanese American’s may spy for their Homeland. Over 62% of the Japanese that were held in these camps were American Citizens. The United States’ internment of the Japanese was a poor and cowardly method of ‘keeping the peace.’ The United States was not justified in stowing away Japanese Americans into almost concentration camps. This act goes against the basic Bill Of Rights granted to all American citizens, the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due

I do not think President Roosevelt was justified when ordering Executive Order 9066 because, most Japanese Americans were law-abiding citizens who loved their country. The government believed Japanese Americans to be a threat to society and that they would do what was necessary to protect the people of the United States. So if it meant locking up all Japanese to protect the American people it was a must.

“On February 19th, 1942 President Roosevelt signed into effect Executive Order 9066: an authorization for military authorities to exclude any and all persons from designated areas of the country as necessary for national defense (Jones, Par. 11).” This was the first strike in a round of racial exclusion that violated the Japanese's rights, abolished their faith in the American government, and interned them in a camp for up to four years. The Japanese internment camps were unethical and completely barbaric because they violated the Japanese's rights as individuals and as citizens of the United States, it was a violation of the justice system as well, they had no evidence to prove any of the Japanese were plotting against the United States,

Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. This forced all Japanese-Americans, regardless of loyalty or citizenship to evacuate to the West Coast. The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history.

During World War Two the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were destroyed. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. Executive order 9066 ordered the removal of everyone in military areas. The order affected mostly the Japanese Americans because it sent them to internment camps. I do not believe President Roosevelt was justified in signing executive order 9066.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This Order called for the internment, or jailing, of thousands of Japanese American citizens. The citizens that were interned lost their homes, jobs and businesses, their lives devastated. Those who were interned were moved to prison camps, where the conditions weren't favorable. The fateful decision of President Roosevelt crossed a line, the Rubicon in a way, and had many impacts, both short-term and long-term. There is no doubt that for generations, the Japanese people of America felt a certain distrust of their government, even if they'd been extremely loyal before. The effect of the Executive Order had an irreversible effect on the Japanese of America. The ordering of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt was not justified, as Japanese American citizens provided little to no evidence of being a threat, and therefore their internment was wrong.

75 years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. For a brief history lesson, during World War II, tension was high and people in the US were both angry and scared. Fresh off the attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens and the government had a major fear of more homeland attacks from the Japanese as well as spies living among them. Influenced by many members of his cabinet, FDR signed the Executive Order, along with Executive Order 9102, which caused over 100,000 people of Japanese origin (over 70,000 of which were American citizens) along with several thousand German and Italian immigrants, to be put in internment camps for the duration of the war.

During World War II President Roosevelt issued an Executive order to ban people in the United States with Japanese ancestry into internment camps. The President’s Executive order gave the military power to ban people with Japanese ancestry from Washington state to California to southern Arizona. About 122,000 men, women and children were moved into the internment camps. They lost their properties, homes, businesses and their liberties.

Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066. This legislation allowed America to urgently move Japanese Americans to ten internment camps spread out across the West. President Roosevelt was advised that over 100,000 Japanese Americans were living in the United States at the time and relocation all Japanese American became the priority. The ten internment camps or the less harmful sounding ‘relocation centers’, “were established in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas, eventually holding 120,000 persons” (History). The construction of these internment camps was carried out amongst farmers who contested fellow Japanese farmers.