Education In Japanese Internment Camps

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

Another thing that was bad about the internment camp is that there was a lot of racism going on between the Americans and the Japanese. The anti-racism has been going in the United States since the 19th century. There were tensions between the Asian immigrant workers and the whites because they were force to compete for jobs and land. The United States Congress decided to discourage the Japanese immigrants and to prohibit the naturalization of Japanese immigrants. “The state of California banned the marriages between the whites and the people of Asian descent” (KIM). This is also racism also because the Japanese were the only race that was send to the camps. There were signs on street and billboard on stores

After the attack on the Pearl Harbor in 1941, a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy air service, United States was thrilled and it provoked World War II. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President FDR ordered all Japanese-Americans regardless of their loyalty or citizenship, to evacuate the West Coast. This resulted over 127,000 people of Japanese descent relocate across the country in the Japanese Internment camps. Many of them were American Citizens but their crime was being of Japanese ancestry. They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs and in some cases family members were separated and put into different internment camps. There were ten internment camps were placed in “California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas”(History.com). However, until the camps were fully build, the Japanese people were held in temporary centers. In addition, almost two-thirds of the interns were Japanese Americans born in the United States and It made no difference that many of them had never even been to Japan. Also, Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes and relocate in the internment camps. Japanese families in internment camps dined together, children were expected to attend school, and adults had the option of working for earning $5 per day. The United States government hoped that the internment camps could make it self-sufficient by farming to produce food.

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.

It is my belief that the Internment process took place because mass hysteria and racial tensions fueled the government 's decision. Rather than selecting and relocating solely those posing a threat, such as those with criminal records or political ties, the government made a blanket decision and evacuated all peoples of Japanese descent. This was the result of a hysterical overreaction, and it was later documented that "our government had

     Another factor in the case is racism. Japanese-Americans were subjected to discrimination from the government even before the United States’ entrance into WWII. Five days before the executive order that allowed for removal of Japanese from the west coast, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt speculated the possibility of the Japanese-Americans acting against the U.S., saying that “the very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken” (RTAP, 119). This created a no-win situation for the Japanese-Americans because if they did not act against the U.S., it was still thought that inevitably would. Japanese were denied citizenship before the war, as well (RTAP, 121). Inside the camps, the loyalty questionnaires forced them to either renounce both their allegiance to

Like I said above, a massive number of Japanese-Americans were sent away to the Internment-Camps just because of their race for an average of 3-4 years. During those three to four years the Japanese-Americans could not attend to their jobs, property, and other obligations simply because they were in the internment camps. For reading this excerpt from Document D (Korematsu Supreme Court Ruling), you can see that the Japanese-Americans were not allowed at their houses during the time of Internment: “Compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes… is inconsistent of with our basic governmental institutions.” That obviously states that Japanese-Americans were took away from their property, which would lead to loss of job, and other

The attack on Pearl Harbor is a day that neither Americans nor Japanese Americans will ever forget. Hours after the attack, FBI Agents were sent into Japanese American homes to search for anything that could have aided the Japanese in attacking Pearl Harbor on that fateful day. Soon after, the Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps, the two most prominent camps being in Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas. Through the years of the Japanese Internment in America, the Japanese Americans need to help their children through their mantra, the desire to show that they were Americans by signing up for World War II, and the bond that the citizens of the camp formed while running the camps kept the morale alive and showed that these people were prepared

The internment of Kabuo, Hatsue and the rest of their family are mainly because the U.S governments are being racist toward Japanese. They government did not trust the Japanese because they feared that among them were spies, even thou they swore to be loyalty to the U.S. Some of them even stand up to fight for the U.S against their home country to demonstrated their loyalty, because they believed that they are America and no longer consider as Japanese. But the U.S took no consideration on whether they are loyal or not and placed them into internment camp for safety purpose. I believed that it’s not necessary to have internment camps, it is basically useless and a waste of money and time, because if the Japanese were to have spies, they wouldn’t be that

My first reason is that the Japanese-Americans that were interned were American citizens. These people weren’t criminals or immigrants that entered the country illegally, they were innocent Americans. These people were taken from their homes and stolen of their families and lives because of their race. It’s just wrong to generalize an entire race based on what their race did from another country, especially when those a large number of Japanese-Americans didn’t have citizenship in Japan anymore or associated with them. Thousands of those Japanese-Americans came to America for a new life and they were punished for what Japan did to us.

Obtaining buildings to set up schools were quite difficult. Citation Necessary staff needed was hard to accumulate.(Roger et al. 44)Persistent problems plagued including obtaining books, tools and materials, equipment and supplies and even heating throughout the camps in schools after they were set up. (Fremon 40) Estelle Ishigo who was in the Wyoming internment camp stated, “There were as many as 60 children in class in 16 by 20 feet room and there were very few books. At first there were no desks, some sat on benches, some on the floor, some leaning against the wall to learn their lessons.” (Roger et al. 44) Despite that the curriculum covered standard subjects, emphasis was placed on Americanization, citizenship, and loyalty to America.

After all the pain the government caused the Japanese Americans, and years of hope and waiting, the newfound soldiers still had a burning desire to fight for and protect the country that once betrayed them. They did not only do this for their family, but also because they admired the country they lived in and everything it stood for, even though so much pain was inflicted on their people. In the end, the victims of the internment camps simply wanted to do what was right for the United States. Most Japanese Americans began to feel guilty and ashamed of Japan’s actions towards the United States. So, instead of helping or worshiping Japan’s foul actions, many Japanese Americans took action by sending care packages to Pearl Harbor and even “started to buy war bonds,” and “[take] first aid classes with the rest of the [Caucasian] people in the community" in order to prepare for another possible attack (Heinrichs, 22). Despite the dedication the Japanese Americans had for the United States, the idea that they were a threat and untrustworthy was a tough stereotype to break for most US

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

On June 30th, 1946 the War Relocation Authority was closed. They had been in charge of the ten camps that were created. By the summer of 1946, mostly all of the camps that were created were completely empty. Life after the Internment Camps was both negative and positive. When some of the people left, they were greeted by citizens who were happy to have them back, but like always, there are people who don’t agree with others. Some would face angry citizens and would do anything to make them not feel welcome. In addition, it was difficult for Japanese Americans to leave the camps and move inward to the mainland because of prejudice. Some Japanese people weren’t allowed in certain places because people were still angry at them. Not just where

Conditions were not what you would expect from your American government. People were put in lines to do various activities of the day (“Our Story Life After WWII”). Children and adults would wait in line to do simple things like going to eat, or simply going to the bathroom (“Our Story Life After WWII”). People were fed in long mess halls and were given only a small amount of food to eat ("Living Conditions of Japanese American Internment Camps"). U.S. military guarded the internment camps and put up a barb wire fence to ensure no one could leave. Mino Okubo, an internee said this, “The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no ‘America” ("Living Conditions of Japanese American Internment Camps"). People treated as if they were prisoners who had committed great crime.