Why Should The Internment Of Nisei Be More Controversial?

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

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

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”

Was President Roosevelt justified in ordering Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the internment of Japanese American citizens. I believe that he was justified in putting them into internment camps because we didn't know whether or not they could be trusted.

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 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 Japanese internment was not justified because the motives for interment were fueled by racism and discrimination. Protection from the threats of World War II mainly seemed to focus on the Japanese due to the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The fear of targeted bombings and mass killing caused war hysteria in Americans. Because of this, Americans acted irrationally against the Japanese-Americans and failed to be open-minded. Evidence of this discrimination and segregation showed in the Japanese-American stereotypes as spies.

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,

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

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).

The Japanese-American Internment was a necessary choice, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It helped to make our nation secure during times of extreme emergency and it also helped the US government to keep their enemy under watch. “The story of how Japanese American soldiers from the war’s most highly decorated US military unit came to be there is just one part of a remarkable saga. It is also a story of one of the darkest periods in American history, one filled with hardship, sacrifice, courage, injustice, and finally, redemption. It began more than a hundred years ago” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). At the turn of the 21st century began the immigration of the Japanese to America for various reasons, but all with one thing in mind: freedom. “We talked about America; we dreamt about America. We all had one wish – to be in America” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). The decision by these many people was a grueling and tough decision, but they knew it would benefit them in the long run. “…like their European counterparts, they were willing to risk everything to begin life anew in what was regarded as a golden land of opportunity” (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). When they came to America, they were employed and were able to begin their new lives for the first part of it.

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

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.