What caused Japanese people to be relocated from the west coast and confined in internment camps?

Answer 1

Answer 1

What basically started it was Pearl Harbor

They did it out of fear of them fighting alongside the Japanese.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, racism was a huge part of United States history and Blacks were not the only race to suffer unequal and prejudicial treatment. Asian-Americans did not become accepted as "true Americans" until the mid-1960s. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, many Americans saw the Japanese-Americans as a fifth column. This meant that they viewed the Japanese-Americans as secret spies for Japan and inherently disloyal to the United States. Strangely, from a modern perspective, German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and Italian-Americans, who were much more vociferous opponents of US military policy in World War II were not even considered for discriminatory treatment, showing that this boils down to racism and fear of Asians more than it does legitimate security concerns.

In order to deal with this perceived loyalty, the President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This order was used to round up Japanese-Americans all along the Pacific coast (the largest area of Japanese-Americans in the United States) and place them in internment camps. In 1944, the US Supreme Court upheld the validity of the camps on the grounds of necessary military action. Surprisingly, the Japanese-American response was not to riot or protest, but to actively seek to assist the United States military in World War II. To "prevent" the Japanese-Americans from being in contact with other Japanese, most Japanese-American units were sent to the Italian Front, where some of them earned the highest amounts of commendations and medals. After the war, the Japanese-Americans were released from the camps without any property of money from which to make a living. However, many of them were resourceful and able to sustain themselves in the following decades.

In the 1980s, the US Federal Government admitted its wrongdoing and compensated every family that still had a surviving member from the internment camps for this violation of their civil liberties.

Answer 2

Japan attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. Japan had previously invaded China and was ruthless toward the civilians in China. Americans of Japanese heritage looked different (yellow skin) than Americans of German or Italian Heritage (white skin). Also a lot of people out west used the excuse of "Relocating" American of Japanese heritage to steal their land and acquire their property, just as ruthless Americans had done in the past against Native Americans and Black African Americans. It was racism, and greed, masked in the flag wrapping phony false patriotism of "Remember Pearl Harbor". Americans of Japanese heritage fought with the USA Armed Forces in the military in Europe, especially Italy, but, were Usually not trusted to fight in the Pacific.