Japanese Internment Camps During The World War II

Over the span of nine months 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forced from their homes, stripped of their belongs and denied basic human rights (1). During World War 2, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government felt people of Japanese origin could be a threat to the Canadian war effort. Because of this, thousands of Japanese Canadian citizen’s were moved to internment camps in British Columbia. The internment of the Japanese Canadians was wrong because it was completely unjustified, most of the people put in the internment camps had a Canadian citizenship, were treated very poorly and there wasn’t any proof that they would do anything negatively effect Canada during the war.

Secondly, Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was impact on Japanese American in the U.S. It was two months later, after bombing Pearl Harbor on December, 7 1941 Japanese-American were immediately became victim of what the Japanese did. As a result, of the President Franklin Roosevelt's "signed Exclusive order 9066" that allowed military force to removed Japanese American form the anywhere into internment camps( Uchida 407). The reason why the U.S. government relocated Japanese-American into internment camps because the U.S. concerns over the loyalty of Japanese American associated with Japanese to defeat the U.S. However, no anyone found evident to prove about the U.S. concerns. In addition, Japanese American that moved to camps, they lost everything

In addition, there were too many Japanese Americans in the camps at a era. There were 400 Japanese Americans living in a barrack at a era. A barrack is the vicinity that the campers lived while in the camps. Also, they were 10,000 people in the camps, like Manzar which is the most crowded camp that was running at the era. In total there were 125,000 Japanese Americans that were living in the camps in the southwest. The reason for so many people in the camp is because they took Japanese American were taken from all over the U.S. The Japanese Americans were taken away in 1942 and did not end until 1945. So the Japanese Americans didn't get to go home for 3 years. Furthermore the reason that so many people are in the camps is because none of them

On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ripped 122,000 innocent lives out of their homes and shoved them into internment camps. The residents of Japanese ancestry were deemed guilty and suspicious solely based on their ethnicity. Not to mention that they were also feared as a security risk by America. Leaders in California, Oregon, and Washington, demanded the United States to remove them from their homes along the west coast and to be relocated in isolated inland areas. All of this was entirely fueled by America’s war hysteria after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.

In February of 1942, during World War II, President Roosevelt yielded to the favored judgment of the people. Roosevelt would sign the executive order to relocate all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps, which would be persistent for two and a half years. The government’s point of view and Mrs. Yoshiko Uchida’s point of view concerning the Japanese American internment camps are immensely dissimilar. Uchida was a Japanese American writer who experienced that of an internment camp during World War II. The government had expected the interns to make the camps rather self-sustainable with no help from them whatsoever.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941, Americans became extremely fearful of people that were of Japanese descent. Congress barred almost all immigrants from Asia. Japanese Americans were forced to leave their jobs and sell their homes and almost all they owned. They were put onto buses and taken to internment camps where they lived under guard behind fences and barbed wire. In these camps, each family was assigned to live together in one room.

The topic that has been chosen for the term paper in the pro seminar course is Japanese Internment Camps. During World War II, a significant number of American citizens of Japanese descent were forced into American internment camps, strictly because of their ethnic background. Having committed no crime, the Japanese forced into the internment camps were treated similarly to that of Japanese prisoners of war that had been captured by the Allies. The forced relocation and eventual internment of Japanese Americans was brought about by the event that occurred on December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 began as any typical Sunday on the Hawaiian Islands. Then at 7:55 am, the fateful Sunday on the island of Oahu would be forever remembered in the history books. At 7:55 am, three hundred and fifty three Japanese planes that were launched from Japan’s six biggest and best aircraft carriers, located only two hundred miles off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands, bombed the U.S. Naval Base. The attack by the Japanese was a complete surprise to everyone, and as a result American casualties were heavy. After the attack, fifteen American ships had been sunk including four battleships. In addition, one American ship was capsized, and one had run aground. Also, one hundred and eighty eight American planes were destroyed, and nearly two thousand four hundred men lost their lives. Prior to September 11, 2001, the attack on Pearl Harbor was the worst attack on U.S. soil

“We couldn’t do anything about the orders from the U.S government. I just lived from day to day without any purpose…”, this is one of the quotes from the Japanese-Americans that were relocated to one of the tragic internment camps. The Japanese-Americans were being relocated and played around with when they were under suspicion of being spies. Many people were being racist to the Japanese race at this time, which made many Japanese people feel crestfallen.

After three years and five months of being in the internment camp, the family was finally sent home to their house, but many folks and parents had a new perspective on how they saw them to be. First of all, when arriving to the house none of the neighbors had gone out of their way to go out and greet them personally. They all just stared from their windows or as they passed each other on the street. A huge factor of the people living there saw Japanese-Americans as the enemy because of the war and Pearl Harbor. Therefore, there were times where even going to the store was a hassle because of the quick glances that everyone gave them and the question about whether they were Japanese or Chinese. After a while the kids found ways to lessen to

By using propaganda to dehumanize the Japanese and instill fear in Americans, it prompted cultural and racial hatred of the Japanese. The purpose of this propaganda was to rally the nation behind the war to defeat the Japanese enemy. Aside from all the fear tactics, the posters would include racial stereotypes, such as yellow skin, slanted eyes, and faces that would resemble animals; the Americans would be depicted with attractive facial features, peach skin, and no type of animalism. The Americans could relate to this portrayal of their race. The subhuman depiction of the Japanese detached any relations from the two races. These racial distinctions were included to further alienate the Japanese. These biased depictions were in the media too. One popular recurring character is “Tokio Kid”, created by Jack Campbell for Time Magazine. There was also a article in Life Magazine, called How to Tell the Japs from the Chinese (“WWII Propaganda: The Influence of

Imagine having to have to leave everything you own and to go live somewhere else without a decision ,Well that's how the Japanese were treated. In 1942 after Pearl Harbor the government decided to relocate all of the Japanese inland outside of the Pacific Military Zone. The government was not thinking straight when they did this, this was wrong.

After the Japanese government bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, many people in the US became frightened and began to persecute Japanese

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, anti-Japanese sentiments skyrocketed in the United States. As a result of this widespread societal prejudice, the Roosevelt administration was pressured by the general public to remove people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Shock from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor soon turned into anger directed towards Japanese-Americans who had no involvement in the attack. After the bombing rumors spread, fueled by racial prejudice, of a plot among Japanese-Americans to sabotage American war efforts. Also, the general public wanted to eliminate Japanese-American because of competition in the farming industry, a public fear of sabotage and politicians wanted to wanted to have the upper hand in votes. Moreover, many forms of propaganda were created to show hatred towards Japanese-Americans or prove their involvement in the bombing. An author of an article says more on the types of propaganda:

I don't think it was just to form internment camps for Japanese Americans purely because we thought they were spies, In my opinion it goes against the basic rights of all American citizens. If anything they could have brought in people with either criminal back ground records or questioned recent immigrants from japan, If they were thought suspicious of being a Japanese spy, they would be deported back to japan. But instead, they locked them up in concentration camps with hardly any privacy or personal space. Some rooms had more than 6 people living in them at a time. I personally believe that this was unjust and uncalled for, and left an everlasting impression on the United

The Asia-Pacific War mirrored several other wars insofar as it had an abnormal enormous impact on the world, thereby altering the daily lives of those residing in Japan and the United States. The Japanese American soldiers struggled to overcome and withstand the American’s racism and hostility that pervaded throughout the course of the war. A multitude of American military officials observed the Japanese American soldiers closely, since this small minority acted as the American’s enemy in the conflict. With the conclusion of the war, American political officials produced propaganda films in order to convince people of a specific political point or influence throughout the war. Go for Broke and Know Your Enemy—films concerning the subject of this military conflict—depict the way in which the American government endeavored to induce discrimination among its citizenry, directed towards this small minority class.