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With the withdrawing of Japan from the League of Nations, their attack on Pearl Harbour and then their battle against the Allied Forces during the Battle of Hong Kong, Prime Minister Mackenzie King thought that it was necessary to take precautionary measures against the Japanese by interning them, just in case any individual or group planned to aid their country. Many Japanese were outraged, as most were innocent. They were then taken to internment camps located in the interior of British Columbia, where they faced poor living conditions, had no electricity nor any running water. “The experience was horrific. We barely survived after long days of work and being given nearly expired food,” said a Japanese mother who was involved in the experience. The property and valuables of the Japanese were seized by the government and weren’t returned. This injustice with the Japanese is what led to this apology.

To be engaged in war is to be engaged in an armed conflict. Death is an all too ordinary product of war. It is an unsolicited reward for many soldiers that are fighting for their country’s own fictitious freedom. For some of these men, the battlefield is a glimpse into hell, and for others, it is a means to heaven. Many people worry about what happens during war and what will become of their loved ones while they’re fighting, but few realize what happens to those soldiers once they come home. The short stories "Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and "Speaking of Courage” by Tim O'Brien explore the thematic after effects of war and how it impacts a young person's life. Young people who

The Second World War was an international event which drastically impacted the world as a whole. With the war came a new found sense of mistrust throughout society. American and Canadian communities were divided due to the fear of espionage and sabotage, forms of spying which could help aid the enemy in war. This division promoted distrust, discrimination and violence toward Japanese immigrants and their children. To offset these fears resulting from war, Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadian citizens were forced into internment camps, resulting in a heightened sense of tension upon arrival home and finally the compensations of both US and Canadian governments

When the Nazi’s arrested Jews and sent them to concentration camps, the conditions were terrible. The men, women, and children in the camps were not treated with the rights they deserved, since they were forced into harsh labor, placed in killing centers where gas chambers were used to effectively and quickly murder thousands of Jews a day, and experimented on to find new medicines and so the German scientists could find out how much pain and torture they could endure until death. In America, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated into camps during the period of World War II. Even though these Americans were not treated as harshly as the Jews in concentration camps, they lost

After the Japanese internment camps, Canadians slowly started to be more informed about the conditions of internment camps and they realized the prejudice decisions they had made by sending the Japanese Canadians there because they were from Japan. Due to the Japanese internment camps Canadians had to realize their mistake and face their own racism.

During the World War 2 Japanese-Canadian Internment camps, Canadian citizens from so called “enemy countries”, were torn away from the lives they had built for themselves. They were taken away from their homes and families to live and work in internment camps sanctioned by the Canadian government because of their ethnic background. Of the 22,000 Japanese Canadians living in BC at the time, nearly ¾ of them were born in Canada or naturalized citizens, yet they were still prosecuted like criminals. Muriel Kitigawa, a young Japanese descendant, wrote to her brother back in Japan telling him about the hatred of other Canadians against the Japanese. Signs were posted on the highways “JAPS KEEP OUT”, and the persecution was more and more intense

The purpose of the internment camps in BC during World War II, was to detain Japanese Canadian citizens who were believed to be working with and aiding Japan’s military in their war against Canada. While the Canadian government was unable to conclude the innocence of the Japanese citizens, the lack of evidence supporting their involvement with Japan’s military make their acts unjustified. While giving his perspective on Japanese Canadians in British Columbia, Major General Ken Stuart stated that he could not “see that Japanese Canadians constitute the slightest menace to national security” (Marsh). The statement made by the General demonstrates how the government disregarded the truth of the matter, by interning innocent Japanese Canadians because of pressure from fearful British Columbians. The response shown by the government proves how they failed to see that the majority of the Japanese Canadians living in BC had no relations with Japan or its government and military. After Japanese Canadians citizens were once again given full freedom, it was discovered through several surveys that 75% of the 22,000 people interned were Canadian-born citizens, who had never previously been to Japan (Wright et al. 144). The surveys helped emphasize how the government’s actions were unjust because the majority of the

With the start of the war, the government put some time restrictions on Japanese people for being in public, Japanese fishermen were ban from Canadian waters. The government also introduced the War Measure Act in order to remove all people of Japanese origin from coast of British Columbia into internment camps in the interior parts of B.C. (Porter & Uyeyama, 1984). Those who showed even a mild resistance to this policy were sent to Prisoners of War Camps in Petawawa and Anglerin in Ontario (Sugiman, 2004, p. 54). In the internment camps people were forced to live in shacks that were hastily prepared (Sugiman, 2004, p. 54), faced daily hardships (Sugiman, 2004, p. 63), and some Japanese women were subjected to sexual harassment by RCMP guards (Sugiman, 2004, p.64). In addition, while Japanese Canadians were at the internment camps, the federal government sold all their properties such as homes and fishing boats, for less than half of their price (Porter & Uyeyama, 1984). Thus, even though many of these people were neutralized Canadians and Canadian born, the federal government failed to recognize their loyalty to Canada as Canadians, simply because of the way they looked, and treated them as enemy aliens and betrayed them during the

During the Internment of Japanese Canadians, people were treated differently in society due to their ethnic background. Firstly, it is shown/demonstarted by the actions of Prime Minister William Lyon along with, Mackenzie King who had ordered to detain/take away people's young and innocent lives from their homes and take them to Hastings Park. Leaving, the Japanese Canadians clueless , with no explanation to what is being happened. As a result of that , the governments used the “War Measure Act” to be allowed to remove them from their “own property,farms, business” (Marsh, 2012)and also forced “more than 8,000” (Marsh, 2012) Japanese Canadians through Hastings Park “where women and children were housed in the Livestock Buildings”. On the

The start of discrimination against Japanese Canadian’s started in 1907, Vancouver. When a mutinous crowd of white Canadians, bashed windows and injured a numerous amount of Japanese and Chinese people in their neighbourhood. Instead of punishing the white Canadian’s for their uncivilized behaviour the government reduced the immigrant entry to four hundred a year. This act was demoralizing as it reduced the chance of the individual’s family coming over, and created an unwelcoming and prejudiced environment. Soon after Canada officially declared war on Germany in 1939 the government decided to imprison all male Canadian citizens with Japanese descent in internment camps across BC. Later contributing to this outburst on

A few years prior to WWII was the Great Depression, jobs were scarce, money was low and the quality of life for the average citizen was poor. The war brought jobs and boosted the economy however it also brought burdens that Canada will remember forever. On August 19, 1942 Canada and the other members of the Allied powers planned to attack the port of Dieppe. This was an extremely disorganized and poorly planned attack resulting in a complete bloodbath once the Allied powers reached the port of Dieppe . The German forces completely inialted almost all traces of Canadian soldiers and this battle goes down in history as the most disastrous battle for Canada. This disaster resulted in many deaths for Canadian soldiers and also was a major setback for Canada in the

The internment of Japanese Canadians during WW2 was noted as being historically significant at the time due to many suffering from forced relocation, internment camps, and being referred as “enemy aliens or “undesirables”. Beginning in early 1942, in regards to the War Measures Act, all Japanese Canadians living near the British Columbia coast were called to move to the Okanagan Valley (Cranny & Moles 159). They were then relocated and placed in temporary relocation centres. Shortly after 21,000 were removed from their homes (Marsh 11), businesses owned by Japanese Canadians were sold by the government to pay for the detention in camps (Marsh 1). Conditions in internment camps were poor, Tom Tamagi, a Japanese Canadian described his experience

British Columbia at the time had a large population of Japanese-Canadians and feared that those of them who worked in the fishing industry were charting the coastlines for the Japanese navy; since British Columbia is on the coastline of the Pacific they felt vulnerable because they were easily susceptible to enemy attacks from Japan. It was common for countries at the time to question the loyalty of the citizens of a different ethnic origin, however Canada under King’s rule took the safety precautions to a whole other level. February 1942, Prime Minister Mackenzie King issued an evacuation of all Japanese-persons, and ordered that they be taken to internment camps where they were kept like animals in stalls and forced to do manual labour at cheated wages. 20, 881 Japanese, 13, 309 of which were born in Canada (so majority would have no reason to be loyal to Japan over Canada) were taken to internment camps, forced out of their homes, had their property sold at auctions, and were stripped of their rights. King interned these innocent Japanese-Canadians over a speculation that they were spies, without having any evidence to support his claims. Following the war, once it

Although these Japanese Canadians were citizens of Canada for years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, they were still immensely discriminated in British Columbia and other Canadian provinces due to the acts of their mother country. Federal cabinet minister from British Columbia, Ian MacKenzie stated “‘It is the government’s plan to get these people out of B.C as fast as possible. It is my personal intention, as long as I remain in public life, to see they never come back here. Let our slogan be for British Columbia: No Japs from the Rockies to the seas’” (“Japanese Internment”). The intensification of discrimination against the Japanese was attributable to the attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States and significantly escalated when the Japanese attacked Hong Kong (“Japanese Internment”). If any Japanese Canadian were to refuse and protest their repositioning into internment camps, they were immediately sent and detained in a “barbed-wire prisoner-of-war camp in Angler, Ontario” (“The War Years”). It was not until four years after the completion of World War II that the Japanese Canadians were given their rights back, but the discrimination still lingered through the provinces of Canada for many years afterwards (“The

The irony is that this was supposed to help the Japanese. In the story, "Camp Harmony," written by Monica Sone it talks about the arrival to there camp. In this story it says, "We stumbled out, stunned, dragging our bundles after us." This quote shows that the people were surprised at the poor treatment they were all going to be