Korematsu V. US Case

Korematsu v. United States (1944) actually began December 7, 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor then began the conquering of Wake, Guam, Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Burma. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, racism, which was hardly unfamiliar, became an even greater problem. The Japanese Government's attacks on Americans including; torturing, raping, and murdering was an excuse for Americans aversion towards the Japanese. Public officials began to lock up the Japanese people simply for their own good, for protection against the hate crimes.

Imagine living under constant apprehension and fear of the Japanese-Americans.  You could never truly trust their motives, and could never do anything freely.  Well that's what went through the American's minds after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.  At once, there was a constant threat in the air of the Japanese-Americans secretly working and helping Japan.  The United States as a whole questioned their loyalty, and therefore put forth the Japanese internment.  I feel that the United States was justified in separating the Japanese-Americans from the mainstream population.  According to the video, it was time of war and the commander-in-chief was given the permission to do whatever he wanted, including discriminate.  After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese

To begin with, no the United States was not not right for taking Japanese Americans from their comfort zone and putting them into internment camps. Being imprisoned in your own rightful country without committing any crimes or anything wrong can be very harsh. Japanese came to America to be free, get jobs, and a chance to start a new life. Among them were fishermen, farmers, and some agricultural laborers, etc.

Japanese Internment can not be justified by the United States government. The United States government, in the twentieth century can not justify the Internment of Japanese Americans and their families. Many will argue that in times of war that difficult decisions and choices have to be made on behalf of the nation at war. World War II highlighted the actions of a nation, embracing and expediting the actions and decisions while not seeing the long term consequence of such decisions. People in support of the war and the policies of our government, will argue that they needed to make the war more efficient to shorten the war and spare our nation needless lost of life. Can a society sacrifice moral principles as they blur the lines of its citizens and its enemies?

How could the United States imprison thousands of innocent people without cause? During World War II, Japan may have posed a threat to Americans, however, the US government unnecessarily rounded up all citizens of Japanese descent and sent them to live in internment camps. They had not committed any crime. They had not done anything wrong. The United States simply decided it was better to be safe than sorry, on the off chance that there was a spy among them. They should not have imprisoned these Japanese descendants in part because imprisoning innocent people contradicts the purpose of a war for freedom. In addition, the US forced them to leave their hard earned homes and live in deplorable conditions.

Needless to say, they never found one iota of evidence that led the government to believe that they were plotting against the United States. Amendment number six, gives citizens “the right to a fair and speedy trial (Constitution).” The Japanese people didn't even get to pack up their houses, or make sure their homes and farms were being taken care of before they were shipped off. They definitely were not given a fair and speedy trial; they were merely held indefinitely until they were considered no longer to be a “threat.”Amendment number 14 is the one amendment that you can't argue that it wasn't violated. It states, per the Constitution, “everyone has equal protection under the law.” However, this amendment was blatantly withheld during the Japanese's internment. As Jennifer Jones wrote in Time Magazine, “even though America was at war with Italy and Germany they didn't round up immigrants of German and Italian ancestry and place them in internment camps.” Obviously, the Japanese were being targeted and it was masked as a “threat to national security” If immigrants were a threat why wasn't every group of immigrants rounded up? This is a prelude to the fact that the Japanese were being racially targeted. Jennifer Jones wrote in her Time Magazine article that “promoted stereotypes of the Japanese made it seem like they were the enemy. It was a propaganda parade like what happened in Germany, but not to the same

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

The past couple of days thousands of Japanese Americans have been relocated to internment camps. Is this unconstitutional? On December 7, 1941, Japan sent warplanes to bomb the huge American naval base at Pearl Harbor. About 2,400 Americans living on the naval base died that day (Dallek). Many of the United States’s warplanes and ships were destroyed from the bombing, leaving the U.S. fleet devastated (Dallek). This led to Americans having a grudge or prejudice towards Japanese Americans since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. This led to the possibility of espionage, which caused the internment of the Japanese Americans. The internment of the Japanese Americans was the imprisoning of them in prison camps away from the West Coast. Was the internment

I do not think there was any justification when the government interned Japanese Americans. I think the reason they specifically targeted the Japanese Americans community was through fear and ignorance. I kind of have a little understanding after what the Japanese did bombing Pearl Harbor. The Japanese really touched the heart of America when they bombed Pearl Harbor. Germany and Italy were on other side of the world and I think that is why Italian Americans and German Americans were not treated in the same manner. Too single out Japanese Americans was a tragic thing for the government to do.

Are you of Japanese heritage? Do you know of the incident that took place at pearl harbor? Go home and ask your parents. Your parents or your grandparents may have been alive during this time. They may have faced the horrors of internment camps. This is where they kept the U.S. citizens of Japanese heritage. It was much like jail. I believe that they took necessary precautions to stop further bombings. You may have a different opinion than me and I can see why you feel that way. They did violate our rights as an American citizen, but it was a fearful time for all of us.

As Americans, we all have civil rights. After the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, these rights were taken away from the Japanese Americans. They were forced to leave their daily lives (job, house, and friends). These Japanese Americans on the mainland were put into concentration camps and left there for 4 years. During World War II, The Japanese-Americans were withheld from their rights and were forced to leave their homes and relocate to internment camps. During this time, America did not uphold their responsibilities, as the Japanese-Americans were not treated equally.

The Japanese-American placement in internment camps was wrong and unconstitutional. The Japanese-American people had been living in the United States without question until the uprise of racial prejudice brought on by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many Japanese-Americans had been born in America and lived an American life, integrated into American schools, speaking with American accents, and enjoying American culture. But, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese were suddenly seen as threats that needed to be controlled. Without any consent, these Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps with poor conditions and treated as if they were ticking time bombs themselves.

Can anyone imagine what it would be like to be told at a moment’s notice that you must pack up and be relocated from your home all because of your ethnic background? It doesn’t seem possible that it happened, but it did. And it is still happening to certain ethnic groups. During World War Two and the bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States Government, President Roosevelt and many American citizens did not trust the Japanese. They needed to be in internment camps like the one at Newell California that is shown above. The Japanese people could be monitored and watched to prevent any underground activities. My husband and I live 55 miles from an old Japanese Internment Camp, called The Tulelake Relocation Center or the Tule Lake

I agree with the dissenting opinion because, the fact that we had imprisoned over a hundred thousand Japanese Americans just go’s to show that the U.S was an unfair and racist country. America had falsely accused an entire race because of a few bad people had wronged us and all the friendly and loyal Japanese Americans in our country had to suffer because of what some of their people did. The order to lock them all up should not have been given as there was no confirmation that the Japanese people living here were spies, but since we were bombed at Pearl Harbor we became paranoid and felt that because those Japanese attacked us that all Japanese were enemies and not to be trusted. The way we had taken them from their homes and threw them in

Like all issues involving race or war, the question of whether or not it was legal and ethical to make Japanese Americans move to relocation camps in early WWII is a difficult and controversial problem. The internment of around 50,000 Japanese citizens and approximately 70,000 Japanese-American people born in the U.S. living in the American West Coast has become known as a tragedy and mistake. The government even set up numerous projects to apologize to the American citizens who were wronged (Bosworth). Still, at the time that the decision to relocate was made, the actions were constitutionally legal and seen by many as necessary. The actions were not based on racist feelings. It was, however,