Japanese Americans in American Concentration Camps

The 1940s, a time where Nisei, Japanese American born in the United States, was hard. After the bombing at Pearl Harbor, in 1941. On February 19, 1942, The president passed the executive order 9066 (Japanese Internment Timeline 6). This order was a forced law, and in this case it was forcing the Japanese Americans into concentration camps, bringing the United States into World War II (Japanese Internment Timeline 6). There was an argument on the West Coast during this time period that had opinions from each side. I believe it was not equitable for Japanese Americans to be taken out of the Pacific Coast and placed into the concentration camps, also referred to as internment, because there

During world war 2 Japanese - Americans were forced out of their homes and put in relocation camps around the country. Many aspects of their lives were changed such as school, living conditions, and even their work. Many of these Japanese - Americans were relocated to Rohwer relocation camp in Arkansas.

While many Americans of the time would argue that any Japanese-looking person could have been dangerous and anti-America, in reality, the U.S. simply hated Japan and their culture which was shown through societal racism. Firstly, a document published in 1942, states, “All Japanese look very much alike to a white person-it is hard for us to distinguish between them… Many Japanese-Americans have been educated in Japan. Many, believers in Shintoism, worship the Emperor and regard his orders as superior to any loyalty they may owe the United States.” (Document H). Clearly, many white Americans felt that internment could be justified by the fact that it was hard to tell which Japanese-looking people were pro Japan and which were pro United States, therefore meaning that they should all be held captive. These Americans misunderstand the situation by getting the false impression that

The American government evacuated approximately 120,000 Japanese Nationals, American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, and placed them in internment camps at the beginning of World War II. Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and businesses, forced into relocation camps in the deserts of California, Arizona, into the mountains of Idaho, and small towns in the southern United States. These were Japanese American people of unquestionable loyalty to the United States. These were citizens denied the rights of normal citizens under the United States Constitution. Americans who had volunteered to fight in the war for the United States, and against the Japan. They wanted to fight for the United

Prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the idea that every Japanese-American was guilty of being Japanese and apart of the Japanese government. Since this mass hysteria spread, the U.S. drove 127,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps for the duration of WW2. In these internment camps, also known as concentration camps, the Japanese Americans had no say in who they were, what they believed in, and who they were fight for. If you were born with any Japanese blood running through you system, you were automatically a target. Two-thirds of the prisoners were born in the U.S., many never even stepped foot on Japan.

In many times throughout history groups of people have been discriminated against based on race or religion. These people receive inferior rights because of the discrimination. In some cases they do not get citizenship, in others they are segregated from others, and physically harmed. Two groups of people that faced discrimination near World War II (WWII) were the Jewish people and Japanese Americans. Both groups faced very different types of discrimination by different oppressors with different motives yet their treatment was very similar and many events paralleled each other. The treatment of Japanese in WWII internment camps was as harsh as the Holocaust's treatment of the Jewish people.

Back in World War 2 Japan had bombed pearl harbor, people got scared many died, many got injured, ships were destroyed, About 300 airplanes were destroyed, everyone probably said we are going to die, Japanese Americans were put internment camps because people thought their was a possibility they would try help Japan defeat the U.S. I have one question what do you about what happen to the Japanese Americans about how they suffered . I think that what the U.S. did to Japanese, was very racist, mostly because the u.s. thought that just because they were Japanese they would help Japan defeat the u.s. And like some people say they were judging a book by it’s cover. And because of that they made them suffer, feel bad, and put them in internment

On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was destroyed. The Japanese attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. 2,300 Americans were killed in this bombing. After two months of the bombing, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066. The Executive order 9066 demanded all Japanese Americans to leave the West coast. Many believed that the Japanese Americans were suspicious of a crime that they did not commit. This was a nightmare to not only Japanese Americans, but also to many Americans. In the Executive Order 9066, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities.”

World War II, the most patriotic time to live in the United States of America. Americans were able to prove themselves like they never had before. Most of the men across the continent signed up to be a part of the war, and the women helped with the jobs that those men left behind. Although this moment is a turning point in history, the greatest time to be an American, the Japanese American people could disagree. The treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II is constantly overlooked though. Around one hundred twenty thousand Japanese American people were forced into concentration camps based solely on if they or their parents were born in Japan. Although the United States was in a national emergency, Japanese Americans should not have been forced into internment because they were American citizens, it was not justified, and it transpired because of substandard political leadership.

Some Japanese- Americans had lived in the states all their lives yet they were treated as complete foreigners. Clearly an unjust consequence to everyone for the actions of the few. When the war that caused the internment camps ended, people thought they would finally be free again, as they were supposed to be in the land of freedom and opportunity. People had become so paranoid that it struck a lightning bolt of hatred nationwide. Once people where returned to their houses, they were welcomed with their houses trashed and

Japanese Americans had to leave the zone by direct and indirect force, and the government passed the law which gave the military authority to move Nisei and Issei (34). Along with that, the Executive Order 9012, passed in March, created the War Relocation Authority (WRA) (35). The WRA’s job was to take charge of the internees after they were moved to the camps (35). The Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) tried to fight against it. However, because it was too young and they were afraid that Americans would think they were really spies if they won’t cooperate, JACL decided to follow WRA (36). Furthermore, in “March 27, DeWitt issued Public Proclamation Number 4 which forced persons of Japanese ancestry to stay in military zone 1 after the end of the month, and on March 27, DeWitt issued Exclusion Order Number 1 in which persons of Japanese ancestry were moved from Washington to camp in Manzanar, California” (37). During the war, there were more than 100 evacuation orders and, through this, the innocent Japanese Americans suffered the consequences (37).

Although World War Two began in 1939, the United States did not enter the conflict until 1941. The country's entrance into the war was caused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After the attack the government had suspicion that the Japanese Americans were spies. So, congress passed the Executive order 9066, stating all Japanese Americans would be relocated to detainment camps.They remained in these camps for two years. Japanese Americans faced many difficulties in the detainment camps.

All the camps had schools, hospitals, libraries and even post offices, but most of these were built by the people living in those camps. A large amount of Japanese Americans died due to inadequate medical care while others were killed by guards for not following the rules. It was all as in a prison there was guard towers, barbed wire and the people didn’t have the right to leave whenever they wanted if they did try to leave or escape they would be shot and killed. Their life was extremely restricted.

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 idea for these camps was brought on by propaganda, creating fears amongst not only regular citizens, but government officials as well (“Japanese American Internment” 2016). Over 127,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned when the camps had first been developed, up until the last camp was closed in 1946 (“Japanese Relocation” 2016). The