Japanese Americans In Concentration Camps

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

The Government should not have inturned them because, many of them were innocent. In the document “Americans in Concentration Camps” Harry Howard writes “From a military point of view, the only danger on this coast is from Germany and Italy.” He continues to say, “But against American government has not taken any such high-handed actions against Germans and Italians-” The unfortunate truth is that the Japanese were inturned when the Germans and Italians were just as deserving as them. Howard continues to say “Color seems to be the only possible reason why thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry are in concentration camps.” I think that Howard's statement is very true and

My first reason is that the Japanese-Americans that were interned were American citizens. These people weren’t criminals or immigrants that entered the country illegally, they were innocent Americans. These people were taken from their homes and stolen of their families and lives because of their race. It’s just wrong to generalize an entire race based on what their race did from another country, especially when those a large number of Japanese-Americans didn’t have citizenship in Japan anymore or associated with them. Thousands of those Japanese-Americans came to America for a new life and they were punished for what Japan did to us.

Many Japanese Americans were actively being sent to the internment camps against their will by the government. This forced exile likely instilled feelings of fear, confusion and betrayal amongst the Japanese-American people.

In American history Japanese internment camps had to do with a lot of hysteria. Hysteria was mainly built up because of the bombing on Pearl Harbor. Americans thought that they were no safe until all Japanese were in no way of hurting us. So by putting Japanese Americans in internment camps

Another thing that was bad about the internment camp is that there was a lot of racism going on between the Americans and the Japanese. The anti-racism has been going in the United States since the 19th century. There were tensions between the Asian immigrant workers and the whites because they were force to compete for jobs and land. The United States Congress decided to discourage the Japanese immigrants and to prohibit the naturalization of Japanese immigrants. “The state of California banned the marriages between the whites and the people of Asian descent” (KIM). This is also racism also because the Japanese were the only race that was send to the camps. There were signs on street and billboard on stores

The American government evacuated approximately 120,000 Japanese Nationals, American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, and placed them in internment camps at the beginning of World War II. Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and businesses, forced into relocation camps in the deserts of California, Arizona, into the mountains of Idaho, and small towns in the southern United States. These were Japanese American people of unquestionable loyalty to the United States. These were citizens denied the rights of normal citizens under the United States Constitution. Americans who had volunteered to fight in the war for the United States, and against the Japan. They wanted to fight for the United

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

In addition, there were too many Japanese Americans in the camps at a era. There were 400 Japanese Americans living in a barrack at a era. A barrack is the vicinity that the campers lived while in the camps. Also, they were 10,000 people in the camps, like Manzar which is the most crowded camp that was running at the era. In total there were 125,000 Japanese Americans that were living in the camps in the southwest. The reason for so many people in the camp is because they took Japanese American were taken from all over the U.S. The Japanese Americans were taken away in 1942 and did not end until 1945. So the Japanese Americans didn't get to go home for 3 years. Furthermore the reason that so many people are in the camps is because none of them

Most Japanese-Americans were doing fairly well before WWII, but because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the government decided they could not trust the Japanese-Americans. Any one with a Japanese last name was relocated to an interment camp inland. During WWII, many Japanese-Americans living in the states were second and third generation Americans. Rumors spread throughout the U.S. that Japanese-Americans were spies that were assisting the Imperial government with attacks on the U.S. The forced evacuation had many Japanese-Americans leaving property, and possessions behind for white American neighbors to take. The government shipped approximately 110,000 Japanese-Americans to relocation centers. No one stood up for the Japanese-Americans even though their American civil liberties had been violated. Some Japanese-Americans were granted permission to leave the interment camps to provide wartime labor like picking different

World War II was a time of deliberate hate among groups of innocent people who were used. While the first thought that comes to mind is the Jewish people kept in Concentration Camps throughout the Holocaust, this is not it. Japanese-Americans were persecuted due to the fact that they looked like citizens of Japan, who had attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941 at the naval base, Pearl Harbor. This hatred toward the group was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were mistreated during World War II for no other reason than being different. These men, women, and children were loathed by the American public for looking like the people of the Japanese army that had attacked the United States. These people were only hated by association, even though many had come to the United States to create a better life for their family.

Harsh conditions caused death and stress to many Japanese- Americans. The sites of the camps were in places in western United States that included, Topaz in Utah, MInidoka in Idaho, Gila River and Poston in Arizona, Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Amache in Colorado, Rohwer and Jerome in Arkansas, and Tule Lake and Manzanar in California (“Japanese - Behind”). With the site of the camps at such alien and deserted locations, the location greatly impacted the conditions and experiences at the relocation camps. Before the arrival to the barbed wired and watch tower infested camps, the internees were not informed of the location of the camps (“Children” and “Japanese - Behind”). Even when the Japanese- Americans knew so little about their upcoming

     Another factor in the case is racism. Japanese-Americans were subjected to discrimination from the government even before the United States’ entrance into WWII. Five days before the executive order that allowed for removal of Japanese from the west coast, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt speculated the possibility of the Japanese-Americans acting against the U.S., saying that “the very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken” (RTAP, 119). This created a no-win situation for the Japanese-Americans because if they did not act against the U.S., it was still thought that inevitably would. Japanese were denied citizenship before the war, as well (RTAP, 121). Inside the camps, the loyalty questionnaires forced them to either renounce both their allegiance to

Although World War Two began in 1939, the United States did not enter the conflict until 1941. The country's entrance into the war was caused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After the attack the government had suspicion that the Japanese Americans were spies. So, congress passed the Executive order 9066, stating all Japanese Americans would be relocated to detainment camps.They remained in these camps for two years. Japanese Americans faced many difficulties in the detainment camps.

After the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, life in the U.S. had changed. It was the first time in a long time that America was attacked on its homeland. This national security threat was a big shock to the people. The Japanese had to suffer the consequences of their attack. Just as the Germans developed concentration camps for the Jewish during World War II, the Americans set up "relocation" programs better known as internment camps to keep all the Japanese. The reason the Japanese were moved into these camps was because they were suspected of being spies. They were forced to live there for up to four years and were not able to continue with their own lives as they were before while they were living in these camps.