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When the Japanese Americans migrated to the United States they were not welcomed with open arms. The Japanese Americans faced many hardships. The biggest hardships they faced were their treatment by the American people as well as by the American government after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and placed in internment camps for years with little to no explanation as to why. According to the United States government the Japanese Americans

of 1942, the United States placed some 110,000 persons of Japanese descent in protective custody. Two out of every three of these were American citizens by birth; one-third were aliens forbidden by law to be citizens. There was no reason for us to try and get rid of all of our Japanese-Americans.There was 3 main causes of Japanese-Internment. One reason was because at the time there was a lot of racism in America. Another reason for Japanese-Internment was Within three months after transportation

search of gold and the California dream. They had heard that California was the new frontier, a frontier that would provide them with the opportunity for economic riches. Young and ambitious, many of these Chinese immigrants quickly married in their homeland and set out for the gold rush, promising to return (with wealth). Likewise, in the 1880s, when the state of California was undergoing rapid economic transformation, Japanese immigrants — just as young and ambitious as their Chinese counterparts — set

7, 1941, many Japanese Canadians were removed from their homes and were sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior, farms, and internment camps across Canada. This decision to relocate Japanese-Canadians was made by the Canadian government. Although the relocation of the Japanese Canadians was justified as a security measure, Canada should have not interned the Japanese Canadians. This event was not the first case of racism and discrimination as history repeats itself. Japanese-Canadians posed

and Anne Frank are here to talk about Jews and Japanese experiences in World War II. Anne Frank is a Jew and her family and her had to be taken to the concentration camp. President Ford is a Japanese-American and knows how Japanese was treated. Anne Frank and President Ford have heard and experienced the terrible things the Jews and Japanese-Americans went through. Anne Frank and President Ford are addressing the same issue because Jews and Japanese-Americans both were torn away from homes, when

no privacy and rigorous rules? Could the U.S be wrong for taking Japanese Americans from their home? 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

Japan, as known today, is a world powerhouse in technology and innovation. It currently ranks third in GDP, bringing in over $4.9 trillion dollars per year. However, this has not always been the case. Japan is well known for its period of “Sakoku,” a Japanese word literally meaning “closed country.” From 1600-1850s, that is indeed what Japan was; Japanese citizens were not allowed to leave the country and no foreigners were allowed to enter. The country was completely isolated from the rest of the world

was transferred to Japan ,however, also ensured that the way the new Chinese

section: Japanese Feudalism - a social system founded upon a strict hierarchy with the daimyo at the top, followed by the samurai, then farmers and fishermen, artisans, and finally merchants and shopkeepers. Tokugawa Shogunate Shogun - a Japanese military dictator, appointed by the emperor who had little other power Commodore Matthew C. Perry Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) Samurai - the military nobility of Japan, similar to the knights of Europe Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) meiji - Japanese for “enlightened

economic superpower that has had a communist government for several years. Beginning in 1978, China, under Deng Xiaoping’s rule, began to incorporate capitalistic ideas in the government. Deng created various reforms unlike any of the policies or reforms in prior years that began to reconstruct China’s economy through modernization and by establishment of international trade. The colonization of China by Japan occurred during the Sino-Japanese War, which was during World War II, and this colonization prevented