Why Should The Internment Of Nisei Be More Controversial?

The government's actions were in fact persuaded by war hysteria. A racist is usually known as a person who judges people of another race or ethnicity in bad ways. According to the Munson Report, there really was no “Japanese Problem on the Coast” (Munson 2). It was easy to be put on the “suspect list” due to physical appearance, in each naval district there were at least 250 to about 300 Japanese-Americans under surveillance due to their appearance. It was easy to be watched just by race, or saying somewhat something about Japan .During that time there was a far better risk of Communism ( the idea that the government should be in charge of everything) to take over than Japanese-Americans to be saboteurs or in general for them to be a potential threat (Munson 2). Also the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) suggested that there was a greater risk of Germans and Italians on the West Coast, rather than Japanese-Americans. (Howard 3). The Japanese- Americans were not a potential threat to the United States during World War II. Putting them into internment camps was being racist toward their whole ethnic

In conclusion, I am against the US putting Japanese in internment camps because half of the japanese didn't have nothing to do with it. They were living in bad conditions.And the weather didn't make it better. The last thing is they were treated like real prisoners. Which wasn’t right for the US to do. They say our country is the land of the free but they didn’t give the “Japs”

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?

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 internment and cruel treatment of the Japanese in the U.S. stemmed from a fear of a full-pledged invasion from Japan and also from years of racial prejudice

It was caused by a very understandable fear for the security of the country. Another reason that Japanese Americans had to go to internment camps because Japanese American spies were given the Americans plans for the Japanese. I think that the factors, political because the government had to tell the Japanese American to go to internment

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

Was the Japanese internment necessary? This question is seldom asked because, from today’s perspective, this act seems cruel and discriminatory. America didn’t mindlessly incarcerate Japanese in Internment camps since one has to remember the context of this time. There was the possibility of spies like the ones that gave away the location of our ships in Hawaii and a general fear of saboteurs which caused the Japanese internment to be necessary for our safety and eventually theirs if our citizens got to the point of lashing out against the Japanese.

Most of the Japanese-Americans that were put into internment camps were children. According to History On The Net, “More than two thirds of those interned were American citizens and half of them were children. None had ever shown disloyalty to the nation.” There is no reason to put so many children into internment camps for nothing. The United States took a part out of those children’s childhood. The U.S. took the Japanese children and their families out of their homes and away from their friends. History on the Net also states, “In some cases family members were separated and put in different camps.” Not only did children have to leave some of their friends, some were also separated from their other family members. Japanese-Americans shouldn’t have been put into internment camps because they were innocent and most didn’t show disloyalty to the

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

“The broad historical causes which shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership (Commision on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians 5). This shows that the decisions were made because people were afraid. Also the people of America were afraid of entering the second world war. “Military authorities feared an invasion.” (Black 4).

Japanese internment was not and is not justifiable. America is a mixing pot of cultures, religions, and ethnicities. Thus, American citizens do not inherently have a significant relationship to the nations of their heritage. Immigrants to this country actively selected a lifestyle other than that of their homeland, for one reason or another. Those who were born in America, without any first-hand exposure to the home of their parents or grandparents are especially free of potential conflicting ties. This is proven when Grant Hirabayashi admits, “...I was offered what they call…[an appointment as] a military cadet. And, I told the officer...no thanks. I was an American citizen,” (RAP, pg 190). Another point of importance is that an individual can be loyal to their country without wishing to join its military or military

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,

In the morning of December 7th, 1941, a swarm of Japanese warplanes bombed the Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack. As a result, 2,400 Americans were killed and over a thousand were wounded. The Japanese destroyed over 200 American aircrafts and suck several battleships while only losing under a hundred of their men (History.com). Following this attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, officially entering World War II. Fearing that the Japanese Americans would turn on America and aid Japan, Roosevelt signed an executive order that forced all Japanese Americans to evacuate the West Coast. Approximately 120,000 Japanese were relocated to internment camps. Because of the safety of the country and the Japanese, I believe that the United States government was justified for interning Japanese Americans.

The internment to the Japanese-American was also due to the racial prejudice against the Japanese. The Japanese immigrants were thought to be the cheap labor in the U.S., but they slowly began to take over the business in the country. As they worked hard in every work they do, at that time they were mainly farmers, so they turned out to be successful farmers and had been creating small business in the country like: fishermen and fruit business. As seeing their growing success in the country, the White Americans, they began to prejudice against the Japanese and supported the internment. This has been going on in the U.S. from a long-time people have been separated in the U.S. based on color, race and language. The African -Americans, Asians including Japanese. Due to their background they have been getting trouble on getting jobs, education or other basic important rights because of their race and color.