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Japanese Incarceration

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More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan but still all were wrongly accused. Soon after the horrific bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast and leave their beloved homes. Although many Japanese American internees accepted their fates, there were still many who were strongly against incarceration and spoke their minds.

On December 7, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S Naval base located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The bombing had lasted for two hours. Many lives and military vessels were lost. In two hours the Japanese destroyed 20 American naval vessels, eight battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. 2,000 Americans soldiers were estimated to have died including sailors, and another 1,000 wounded. Many Japanese Americans feared for themselves because of what Japan had done. Japanese Americans and the Japanese had two different perspectives on this problem. The Japanese in America were the ones left suffer for Japan's actions …show more content…

Roosevelt. The order authorized the Secretary of war, set areas as military zones for the Japanese Americans. The order uprooted thousands of Japanese-Americans from their homes citizens or noncitizens and sent them to secure locations throughout the United States. Mitsuye Endo was one of the niseis who was forced to move to a relocation camp. She was confused because she wasn't the one who bombed Pearl Harbor nor commit any crimes. Mitsuye then hired a lawyer to represent her legal protest against her illegal relocation. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court finally decided that persons of Japanese descent could not be held in confinement without proof of disloyalty or

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