During World War II American soldiers who were caught by the Japanese were sent to camps where they

Families were separated, they had to abandon their friends, jobs, neighbor's, pet, possessions and their home. A common stereotype was that Japanese Americans were un-American (Renteln). In propaganda Japanese Americans were portrayed as dangerous people and the enemy. Even after the war, coming back home everyone tended to look and treat them differently. Specifically, in the camps they lost part of their identity due to the strict rules about no Japanese books and not speaking in Japanese this made them lose part of their culture. While the Japanese Americans were living in the internment camps, they lost their core identity, therefore it led to mental issues because they weren’t able to be themselves.

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

"Manzanar" shared a similar perspective of this ruthless war. Both men were damaged physically were it was nearly impossible to recognize one's self. Louie states "every man in camp was thin, many emaciated" (Hillenbrand 1). This showed how the POWs were treated in camp and that death was close. Next, was the father from "Manzanar", and just like Louie, the he was treated with cruelty in our own country. His daughter portrays his image from coming out of camp as" underweight, leaning on a cane, and favoring his left leg"(Wakatsuki 2). This shows that during the war Japanese- Americans were also treated harshly from a different country.

From a very early age, Louie Zamperini was a visible young man. His charismatic/rebellious ways, and his athletic accomplishments continually put him in the spotlight, but years in Japanese POWs camps slowly eroded his visibility. He, like so many others in captivity, experienced efforts to make him “invisible.” During WWII, POWs were systematically stripped of their dignity in the camps of Japan, and as Hillenbrand writes, “without dignity, identity is erased” (189). Dehumanizing tactics by Japanese guards deny prisoners of their dignity and humanity. In

Imagine what it would be like if you and your family. Had to leave your home and live in a camp. In World War ll, life was challenging for Japanese Americans living inside internment camps. It was not necessary for so many reasons. It caused economic, political, and racial problems.

The Manzanar internment camps were very inconvinient for the Japanese- American citizens as the attack on Pearl Harbor was very inconvinient for the U.S. Military. In the end, both fought through the tough times and came out more determined to make things right. I say this because according to the excerpt above, "Of the hundreds of men wounded in the attack, only 10 percent stayed in their hospital beds more than a day. The rest went almost immediately back to their duties." This shows that the Military was very determined to fight for their country and wouldn't let their wounds stop them. This is the quite similar for the Japanese- Americans that were forced to go to camps around the U.S. because the Americans were scared that they would turn against the U.S. during the war against the Japanese. When the Japanese- Americans had the chance to get out of the crowded camps, they went on with their lives, some with schooling, going back to make buisnesses, etc. This shows how the Japanese- Americans still had hope for their country and didn't give up on it because they were treated wrong.

The camp became its own world. People seemed to forget the war and only think of the next task that had to be taken care of. They tried to create commonality and keep any anger under control.

During World War II, thousands of POWs experienced isolation and dehumanization in an Japanesethe attemptefforts of the Japanese to make them feel invisible. In Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, American POW and former Olympic runner Louis “Louie” Zamperini rwas just one of the many soldiers who was dehumanized while in 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 World War II, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent who lived on the Pacific Coast of the US were sent to internment camps after the bombing at Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7th, 1941. American citizens made up 62% of those who were interned. And even though these American citizens were being unconstitutionally blocked off from the rest of society, the majority of these citizens still declared that they remained forever loyal to America. Some of the recollections left behind by the internees of their experiences at these camps include letters to their loved ones, diaries, pictures, and even full plays. And while living in often cramped, and poorly maintained conditions, the internees still tried to lead normal lives

First, Jews could no longer vote, have freedom of speech and they suffered cruel and unusual punishments. along with Japanese Americans. The worse part of it all was knowing you no longer have any rights whatsoever, his now classifies you as a “slave”. “ we knew there was going to be slaves but we didn't expect to see human skeletons”, said the Holocaust Documentary. Second, when japanese Americans were put in camps they were accessed with very little rights. When the U.S gave the propaganda they made the internment camps sound much better than what it really was. Japanese Americans could not vote, give freedom of speech, travel or join the army. No one knew really how bad it was unless you experienced the camp first handedly. Finally fear and hatred erased any sort of rights you ever thought you had. Being in the camps you no longer were free like how you were before. Jwes were doing forced unwanted labor while Japanese Americans were segregated from the rest of the world watching it go on without them. “ The soliders and guns but they weren't pointing out to protect us but pointing inward towards us” , George Takei. Both Jewish people and Japanese Americans rights were taken away from each other which makes them like a

I have feelings of sad and mad because the japanese didn't deserve this poor treatment. The japanese were not treated fairly by the U.S government. The Japanese americans were forced to give up their possessions and their property. Japanese- Americans had to live in very poor and bad conditions at these camps. Japanese were given bearings/tags with numbers on where they were ordered to go and when. Japanese were heardered on trains like cattle and swine. The Japanese went to the ¨mess¨ hall to eat disgusting, unhealthy foods.

“Under public pressure, President Roosevelt ordered the relocation of all americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camp in February 1942” (U.S History). Camp Manzanar was built in March 1942. “As a result of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered into World War II and the lives of over 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry living in the United States were changed forever. “About two-thirds of all Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar were American citizens by birth”(life in Manzanar). The remainder were aliens, many of whom had lived in the United States for decades but were denied citizenship. Even though the internment camps weren’t technically prisons, Americans were so paranoid that the Japanese couldn't be trusted that life at Manzanar was every bit as dreadful as any prison. “ Men and women shared toilets, and showers” also many of the internees were “unaccustomed to the harsh weather conditions” that Manzanar had to offer (Life in Manzanar). By September 1942 more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were crowded into 504 barracks organized into 36 blocks.They had little to no privacy. Any combination of eight individuals was allotted a 20-by-25-foot room. An oil stove, a single hanging light bulb, cots, blankets, and mattresses filled with straw were the only furnishings provided. American mass hysteria over Japanese mistrust was evident by the way the internees were treated at

However, for the second Japanese-American, the detention camp was a new start. During the wartime, US military needed a lot of manpower, some seasonal agricultural workers allowed to leave the detention camp, in order to alleviate the shortage of agricultural labor. The second-generation of Japanese students were allowed to leave the camps to continue their education. During the world wall two, a lot of second generation of Japanese-American participated in military and have great distributions. After the battle, a lot of second Japanese-American regain the recognition of American society, and even got more social welfare than before the world war two because of their great contribution for

As stated in the book After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics the Japanese were, “Barred from citizenship by their adopted land, the immigrants were thereby transformed at a stroke into enemy aliens by the outbreak of war be-tween the United States and Japan,”(Robinson 2). This is similar to the book When the Emperor was Divine statement that ” In class we sat in the back where we hoped we would not be noticed. ”(Otsuka 121) Thus, it is clear there were barriers and persecution of the Japanese that devastated the Japanese in every aspect, and the complete violation of any American citizen. Yet, there are slight differences in the time preceding the Internment Camps.