What Was The Impact Of Japanese Internment Camps

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

Another reason why the United States creates the internment camps was because they feared that the Japanese-Americans were going to betray them. The media carried out a huge role into putting the Japanese in the internment camps. In the Japanese-American relocation camps article written by ……. stated that “in January 1947, a naval intelligence office in Los Angeles reported that the Japanese-American were being perceived as a threat almost entirely, because of physical characteristics of the people”. This caused a huge fright for the Americans thinking that the Japanese-Americans were going to sell them out to the Japanese. The Japanese made sure to make them look bad and throw them In camps. Since they never had evidence they used the media. According to the tragedy of the Japanese-American internment article, “ the court agreed to carry out this persecution”. It was wrong that the court would even carry out this act without

Japanese internment camps from 1942 to 1946 were an exemplification of discrimination, many Japanese Americans were no longer accepted in their communities after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were perceived as traitors and faced humiliation due to anti-Japanese sentiment causing them to be forced to endure several hardships such as leaving behind their properties to go an imprisoned state, facing inadequate housing conditions, and encountering destitute institutions. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941 (Why I Love a Country that Once Betrayed Me). This led president Roosevelt to sign the executive order 9066, which authorized the army to remove any individual that seemed as a potential threat to the nation (“Executive Order 9066”) This order allowed the military to exclude “‘any or all persons from designated areas, including the California coast.”’ (Fremon 31). Many Japanese opposed to leave the Pacific Coast on their own free will (Fremon 24) . Japanese Americans would not be accepted in other areas if they moved either.Idaho’s governor stated, Japanese would be welcomed “only if they were in concentration camps under guard”(Fremon 35). The camps were located in Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and California where thousands of Japanese Americans eventually relocated. (“Japanese Americans at Manzanar”) The internment lasted for 3 years and the last camp did not close until 1946. (Lessons Learned: Japanese Internment During WW2)

Everyone that even looked to be Japanese would be mistrusted and be labeled as “the enemy.” On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt issued an executive order which rounded up every Japanese person that lived in the US as they were seen to be threats to the nation. Many endured names such as being called an “alien.” In March, the government shipped the Japanese to relocation camps where they were sure to be not in contact with the enemy. Any former possession that the internees might had had were usually gone shortly afterwards as their lands would be repressed. Despite the fact that most of these Japanese were Nisei, native-born American citizens whose parents were Japanese, and that some volunteered for military service they were still put into these camps. They were housed in barracks and used communal areas, for washing and eating. Over half of those taken in were merely children. These camps were then overseen by military personnel. All internees over the age of 17 were given a loyalty test were they were asked questions. 120,000 Japanese were taken in, and only 60,000 survived. In 1988, the U.S. Congress passed legislation which awarded formal payments of $20,000 each to the surviving internees. At the end of the war some remained in the US and rebuilt their lives, others however were unforgiving and returned to Japan.

     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

“On February 19th, 1942 President Roosevelt signed into effect Executive Order 9066: an authorization for military authorities to exclude any and all persons from designated areas of the country as necessary for national defense (Jones, Par. 11).” This was the first strike in a round of racial exclusion that violated the Japanese's rights, abolished their faith in the American government, and interned them in a camp for up to four years. The Japanese internment camps were unethical and completely barbaric because they violated the Japanese's rights as individuals and as citizens of the United States, it was a violation of the justice system as well, they had no evidence to prove any of the Japanese were plotting against the United States,

During World War II, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent who lived on the Pacific Coast of the US were sent to internment camps after the bombing at Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7th, 1941. American citizens made up 62% of those who were interned. And even though these American citizens were being unconstitutionally blocked off from the rest of society, the majority of these citizens still declared that they remained forever loyal to America. Some of the recollections left behind by the internees of their experiences at these camps include letters to their loved ones, diaries, pictures, and even full plays. And while living in often cramped, and poorly maintained conditions, the internees still tried to lead normal lives

The relocation of Japanese Americans was an event that occurred within the United States during World War II. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Citizens of the United States had been worrying about the possibility of Japanese residents of the country aiding Japan, and/or secretly trying to destroy American companies.

government. Due to the pressure and the state of panic from state leaders, President Roosevelt, signed the Executive order 9066 on February 19, 1942. The Executive order resulted in the forceful internment of about 110,000 individuals of Japanese descent. When the government gave the internment order, they rounded up and imprisoned the Japanese. In 1942, 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States were moved to ten internment camps. In excess of two thirds of the Japanese American who were forced into internment camps, had never shown any form of betrayal and most were citizens of the United States. The Japanese were mandated to abandon their homes and also leave their jobs. In some cases families were torn apart, put into different camps and left wondering when they might see each other

Executive Order 9066 was signed on 19 February 1942.(“Transcript of Executive”) This order gave power to the Secretary of War and other Military commander to create military zones, which they were allowed to remove people without any hearings or due process. (“Japanese Internment”) When the order first came out the government said the order was put in

Following the beginning of World War II, more than 75,000 Japanese- Americans were placed into internment camps. Internment of Japanese-Americans occurred as a result of racial prejudice; moreover, the institutional and societal racism that pervaded American society influenced public policy so as to justify the creation of these internment camps.

Germany and the United States used internment camps as a way to isolate one culture. The Holocaust camps are more well know about than the Japanese American camps. One leader can turn a whole country against a minority, while another country imprison their own kind.

I also found this part of the chapter interesting too. I chose to focus my section on the Japanese Americans also, but I concentrated on their lives after World War II. This section I found the most interesting because, we today still talk about the horrors that the Jewish people went through, when in fact some of those horrors were happening on U.S. soil. We may not have been killing them, but taking them from their homes and putting them in these camps. The chapter said that, Germans and Italians were not sent to these camps, but rather those of 1/8 Japanese were taken (Palen, 222). It surprised me that these people who were taken from their homes were still loyal to the United States enough to join the military and fight against Japan,

In the event of a national defense crisis, our government has the tendency to make very sudden, irrational decisions. In the past our government has built a reputation of expanding their own power and limiting civilian power. In 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066 which gave the military the right to choose their war zone, to gather all citizens of Japanese descent, and to place them in Japanese internment camps. “The order resulted in the creation of "relocation" and internment camps for 120,000 Japanese Americans,” (Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2016). Not only did Franklin D. Roosevelt issue an executive order that was prejudiced against those with Japanese descent; Roosevelt

The Japanese came to America during the 1880s. In March, 1854 the Japanese’s signed a treaty to open trade with other countries. This concluded to Japans economy to become very wealthy. Now that the Japanese had ties to America and other countries, they had many new opportunities.