Changi Pow Camps Research Paper

The camps that the Japanese-Americans were taken to had the worse conditions imaginable. “More than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry were incarcerated in 10 camps scattered throughout the Western United States during World War II” (Children of the Camps Project 1). Detainees spent many years in these camps. They were locked behind barbed wire fences, and armed guards patrolled the camps. The conditions were comparable to the Jewish camps in Eastern Europe. Entire families lived in quarters that were poorly constructed and horribly cramped. These areas were also unbearably cramped and unclean. There was also no hot water for dishes or showers in the living quarters. In addition, lice was a huge problem in the internment camps. These camps and the laws that our government passed against the Japanese community were atrocious. The United States experienced a terrible tragedy when Pearl Harbor was attacked. However, the American government had no right to make these innocent Americans prisoners of war. During the 1940s and 1950s the Japanese

     Unfortunately, the Japanese-Americans living on the west coast were given no time to show what their loyalties were: they were expelled from the area. They were shipped off to remote locations in the more barren sections of the country. The living conditions at the camps were inadequate at best. Residents were forced to endure extreme cold and extreme heat, cramped living spaces, poor meals, and a lack of indoor plumbing. The whole time, they were under the watchful eyes of armed military police. They were treated as prisoners.

During WW2 many efforts were performed to make the Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan feel invisible. There was more than 140,000 prisoners of war, and about 120,000 Japanese that were put in internment camps, during WW2. Although, they were made to feel invisible, each group found a way to resist the efforts. The POW’s were made to feel invisible by they had no contact home,they were made to feel that they lost their dignity,and they were beaten and starved. The Japanese put in internment camps were innocent people that were made to feel invisible by they had to leave their houses,other belongings, and they were disconnected from the outside world.

All Japanese Americans had to register themselves for the detention camps. Most Japanese Americans were given about two weeks to sell everything and get ready for the detention camps. There were One hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans removed to camps in 1942. More than two thirds were american citizens. The U.S. never told the Japanese were they were going. These internment camps were nothing like the Nazi concentration camps, there were no murders in the internment camps, there were millions of murders in the concentration camps but some japanese americans took their own life. The japanese were given much more food than the victims in the concentration

During WWII, many Japanese-American citizens were imprisoned. They were imprisoned for being from the Japanese decent. There was no evidence to convict these people but they still were imprisoned. Many Japanese came to the West Coast, which caused Americans some paranoia. Americans thought that the Japanese might be terrorists in disguise. In February of 1942, President Roosevelt ordered Americans of Japanese to be sent to concentration camps which were located in various areas of the United States. There were many aspects to the imprisonment of the Japanese-Americans such as their life before coming to the camps, the executive order 9066, and what it was like being in the concentration camps.

The conditions of the camps varied from one to another, but from Stalags and Concentration camps, they were close to the same. A large portion of deaths in POW camps were from “lack of food” (Uhl 1). The recommended daily minimum was a 2,000 calorie diet (Rees 5).However this was impossible to do with the shortage of food. (Rees 5). Some of the food was “potatoes and moldy bread” (Uhl 1) which was part sawdust (Uhl 1). Many only got “5 grams” of bread (Solzhenitsyn 25). Millions of people were surely to die (Jones 11). Although the camps were harsh, the prisoners were allowed to do many activities such as sports, newspaper, musicals, and more (Uhl 2). Many camps featured musical and plays to entertain others and to be used as propaganda (Uhl 2). Even though the POW’s had better choices, they were still beaten and murdered like the others captured. (Uhl 2). In eight months, Nazis murdered 2.8 Russian Pow’s, exceeding the amount of mass murder during the holocaust. (Uhl 2). While in the camps, many died from the Baatan Death March that killed off all remaining prisoners of the Japanese (“Prisoners of War” 4). The weather was also a large aspect to the deaths. The prisoner’s “fingers were

Japanese soldiers are widely remembered as being cruel and indifferent to the fate of Allied prisoners of war. Cruelty could take different forms, from extreme violence and torture to minor acts of physical punishment, humiliation and neglect. Some prisoners were made to hold a heavy stone above their heads for many hours. Others might be forced into small cells with little food or water.

During February of 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order for all Japanese-Americans to be placed in internment camps. These people, some of which were citizens had nothing to do with the war between the United States and Japan. They were being punished and treated horribly for something

The Japanese soldiers had no sense of remorse or sorrow for the prisoners instead they pushed them to their breaking point. Many prisoners collapsed which proved fatal because if you fell behind you became a practice dummy for the Japanese to sharpen their bayonet skills and techniques of killing on you. On one occasion, a prisoner was falling behind in the rear so tanks that followed lined themselves up to run over the victim and squish him into the pavement to make it look as if he were from a cartoon. Since the Japanese could

According to Nagata, author of the legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment, “There is a psychological burden of being stripped of their civil rights and the unjust ethnic denigration of being suspected of disloyalty based only on their Japanese heritage.” In the camps the individuals were treated like prisons inmates and not humans. Government officials created the camps in remote places in order to isolate the internees. The government officials violated the constitution by denying the Japanese Americans the freedom of speech, religion, the right to vote, right to life, liberty and property, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, right to be informed of the chargers, right to legal counsel, freedom from unusual punishment and many more

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese interment camps were placed in the U.S. If they seen any Japanese person they would get them, and take them to the camps. The camp life was very terrible. They were all stuck inside of barbed wire fences, and taken away from their homes. On a picture found in the

They were sent to these camps because they were thought to be a disloyal after Pearl Harbor. Some of the housing had no toilet,no sinks,no stoves, and no insulation and they were built in very hot areas. Some of the housing had armed guards that watch the people constantly and barbed wire fences. They were fake they were fat rice and beans. They were fed rice rice or pork and beans and beans so they had to adapt to this new diet and was never good it was always too soft or too

An estimated 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino soldiers were captured by the Japanese Army. The POWs were stripped of their valuables and weapons and started on a 60 mile march towards the eventual destination at Camp O’Donnell. Prisoners received little or no water or food while marching in the tropical heat. Japanese culture held that a warrior who surrendered had no honor therefore treatment of POWs along the march path was brutal at times. Some prisoners were randomly beaten or bayoneted. Others died from the heat or exhaustion. Japanese officers on horseback used their samurai swords to decapitate some POWs. As wounded and fatigued POWs started to lag behind, the Japanese lost control and the atrocities increased. In some situations,

Despite having a relatively calm culture, the Imperial Japanese army were known for treating and torturing their Prisoners of War (POWs) in horrific and inhumane ways. The prisoners of war captured were brought to camps where they were fed poorly, resulting in scurvy, cholera and many other diseases. The prisoners were tortured in different ways, often for no reason. They were beat with sticks or wires, lighted cigarette butts were pressed into flesh, buried alive and many were also shot and beheaded.

The Japanese prisoners of wars had to repair the damage that was done by Japanese Army. The Japanese soldiers who had fought in Burma were sent to Rangoon to help rebuild the city. The soldiers had to live in tents made out of leaves and mats. The soldiers had to put sacking cloth on the floor, so they can lie down and sleep. Each prisoner had a mosquito net and the ration (food) was given out to the prisoners on a daily basis.