The Effects Of The Japanese Pow Camps In World War II

The U.S. internment of people of Japanese descent during the 1940s was a major event in U.S. history, but it is often overlooked by many. It affected hundreds of thousands of people of Japanese descent, whether they were citizens or not. The incarceration of those placed in camps was affected mentally and it caused many of the internees to develop PTSD or otherwise commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder (Potts, 1994, p. 1). The camps affected how the Japanese were viewed in society during the time period of the camps and following the liberation of them. It also changed how the Japanese viewed society. This paper will focus on the cultural and social aspects of the Internal Improvements.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans, some legal and illegal residents, were moved into internment camps between 1942-1946. The internment of Japanese Americans affected not only these citizens but the

The camps that the Japanese-Americans were taken to had the worse conditions imaginable. “More than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry were incarcerated in 10 camps scattered throughout the Western United States during World War II” (Children of the Camps Project 1). Detainees spent many years in these camps. They were locked behind barbed wire fences, and armed guards patrolled the camps. The conditions were comparable to the Jewish camps in Eastern Europe. Entire families lived in quarters that were poorly constructed and horribly cramped. These areas were also unbearably cramped and unclean. There was also no hot water for dishes or showers in the living quarters. In addition, lice was a huge problem in the internment camps. These camps and the laws that our government passed against the Japanese community were atrocious. The United States experienced a terrible tragedy when Pearl Harbor was attacked. However, the American government had no right to make these innocent Americans prisoners of war. During the 1940s and 1950s the Japanese

……the majority worked full-time, usually around forty-four hours per week” (Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps). Working in internment camps weren’t really needed, but it was to pass the time and get some money. They had many jobs for everyone to make living in internment camps less depressing and easier, however the concentration camps were not the same, their work was made to exhaust, put people’s lives in danger and even die. The purpose was to make the people in concentration camps break, suffer, beg, and torture them to the very

The Japanese had to go to camps mainly because it was their civil duty. They could not function properly in society because of racism, especially when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor. After the attack nobody trusted Japanese-Americans. The government felt that they needed to protect them from society. Americans had very strong feelings towards these people and there was propaganda made to encourage the withdrawal of Japanese people. Even the creators of looney tune cartoons made an episode of how the Japanese man is a savage and extremely ruthless person to anything. Some episodes were about the Germans as well, and how they train the youth to believe in these horrible things, and growing up

In concentration camps, they slept on concrete bunk beds as well as wooden bunk beds that were meant to hold 52 horses, they had no heat, the ceilings were damp and leaky, the prisoners only got 1,300 calories a day, that’s 500 less calories than what the average human should have, they had to work about 10 hours each day. In internment camps, they were located in areas where there's harsh weather, they had schools and medical care in the camps, the japanese were payed to work at the camps, but many people did die from the poor amount of health care or the intenses stress they were put under while being in the camps. They had there own animal stalls that was almost like their home. The prisoners i n the camps were almost treated as slaves, making FDR and Hitler feel like they had more power.

During World War II, Japanese Americans and alien residents were unjustly put into concentration camps. On March 18, 1942, the War Relocation Authority

Japanese internment camps and Jewish concentration camps were the same because each country wanted to be safe from the cause of their problems, both countries were both racist to the society that they put in the camps, and the two countries were both afraid of the other race. Even if there were a few differences in the two types of camps. A camp is a camp (during WWII). We must not forget WWII so the world can make sure that thing like internment and/or concentration camps never happen

Many were innocent children, women and men approximately 120,000, all held in Internment Camps across the country. Children and adults had to stand in line for many things, including eating and going to the bathroom and spent 4 years incarcerated surrounded by barbed wire.

     For over a century, the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However, every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history, certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans, the removal of Native Americans, and discrimination against immigrants, women, homosexuals, and every other minority. During World War II, the government crossed the line between defending the nation and violating human rights, when it chose to relocate Japanese residents to internment camps. The actions taken by the U.S. government against Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the

2. What were the specific challenges Gruenewald and other interned Japanese Americans faced in “camp” life? How did individuals and families adapt to these changes?

While in the Japanese American National Museum, I was observing the historical artifacts and analyzing the readings and I felt this tense intangible atmospheric pressure throughout the museum. The museum definitely gave me whole new perspective of the japanese living in America during World War Two. Something that history textbooks in America won’t cover to in depth, especially showing the other side of history. A display that caught my attention were the pictures that showed daily life inside the incarceration camp. According to the display of the photos, “cameras were forbidden in the camps but it became clear that the Japanese Americans posed little or no threat to American security, camp administrators looked the other way when it came to

The great majority of Australian prisoners were taken captive by the Japanese in the Second World War, it is their stories that are the most well known. Over 22,000 Australians became prisoners of war of the Japanese in southeast Asia.

The Japanese Internment camps started with the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 by President Roosevelt. The camps held about 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.

In Japanese Prisoners of War, Hisakazu Fujita states that treatment in the west, particularly by the United States and the United Kingdom, was