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What did Japanese live in while in Japanese-American Internment Camps?
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∙ 15y ago
Very insufficient food such as potatoes, rice, and Hot Dogs.
Also on Japanese holidays, such as New Years, they ate Japanese food, but on American holidays and other days, such as Thanksgiving or Tuesday, they ate American food
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 10y agoIt seems to have been a pretty boring life. The camps were in remote, desolate places, not that it mattered much, because no one got to go to town or anything. The Japanese made the best of it, organized schools for the children, planted gardens, took up hobbies, formed clubs, taught classes for adults on subjects they had an expert on. Anything to take up the time. The buildings they were put in were poorly finished inside, like big barracks rooms, and they got construction materials and subdivided the space into family areas. The young men volunteered in overwhelming numbers when offered the chance to leave the camps and join the US Military.
The camps were nothing like those in Europe, where there was organized mass murder. There was no official program of doing anything to the internees. The goal was just to keep them there, where if there were any spies or saboteurs among them, they could not do anything to harm the war effort.
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112,000 Japanese-Americans were greeted by various barren landscapes. Each camp had an eight-foot tall barbed wire fence, watchtowers, searchlights, and armed guards. All the camps except Jerome and Rohver, the camps in Arkansas, were located in deserts. These camps were located in swampy wastelands, and were infested with rattlesnakes and malarial mosquitoes. The internees in the desert camps suffered through dust storms. In Topaz, Utah, the "Jewel of the Desert," dust storms were frequent. Yoshiko Uchida, an internee at Topaz, nearly choked to death trying to escape to her barrack in a dust storm. The dust during the storms covered the barracks in thick layers of dust, causing many deaths and sickness in the camps located in deserts. Fire traps were also common in these camps, and were caused by the poor foundation of the barracks,resulting in many deaths at the camps. Additionally, the poor conditions of the internment camps resulted in no running water because of the unstable pipes. The conditions of camps were so poor that many of the internees suffered starvation and death.
Japanese-Americans endured discomfort from the presence of armed guards, also violating privacy and rights . Children in the camps were self-sufficient, and wandered around to find scrap wood to rebuild the barracks. The occasional child wandered too close to the barbed wire, and these unfortunate children were shot.
Although these camps were NOTHING like Jewish Concentration Camps, the surroundings were bleak as well as the lifestyle. However, many Japanese-Americans tried to make the best of it by creating shops and schools.
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∙ 15y agoThey lived in ply wood houses
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Ways Japanese internment camps could have been avoided?
Japanese Internment camps were never a necessity. Based on a few Japanese people who hid a Japanese pilot, the entire population of Japanese Americans were convicted without a jury. Yet, Japanese Americans still continued to join the army, and go to fight for their country while their families were forced to live in internment camps. Historians agree this was a very dark time in American history.
Was putting the Japanese in concentration camps a good thing?
Japanese-Americans were placed in Internment Camps, hardly a Concentration Camp. While not a good thing, they were much better off than the European Civilians that were interred by the Japanese.
What was the Japanese economical business in nineteen forty-two while they were in internment camps?
When the US citizen's of Japanese ancestry were taken away. Their property was auctioned off to the local citizens who were not of Japanese ancestry.
What is is the difference between Japanese internment camps and Nazis concentration camps?
During WW II, the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese both inflicted horrible cruelties upon the people whom they placed in their various camps, the main difference being that the Nazis intended that no one in the camps would survive, while the Japanese were not specifically trying to kill everybody in their camps, although they did mistreat them terribly.
What happened to prisoners' property while they were in internment camps?
They were most likely stolen or destroyed.
How many people died during the Japanese internment?
The situation called for 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to be put into camps spread throughout the United States. Also 7,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese from Latin America were rounded up and transported to the US to the camps. These camps were active from 1942 to 1944. In the Japanese internment camps, they let them live as close to a normal life as they could. They let them order products out of a Sears catalog, grow gardens, let them request the types of food they could eat, and other things to make them have the most "normal of a life" as possible while in containment. But, they were not allowed to leave, communicate with anyone outside the camp, or disobey the people who worked there. By the documents I read, I conclude that no Japanese died in the two years in the camps in the United States. If someone get a document contrary to what I say with the number, I welcome to show it to us.
How many Japanese were imprisoned in POW camps during World War 2?
About 110,000 were interned in 26 different camps while 33,000 served in the US Military. ------------------ There were around 120,000 Japanese Americans interned in 10 different camps around America.
What year did your government begin to move people to internment camps?
If you mean those camps for weening kids off the internet then im not sure? i heard it on the news a while ago that china just invented those camps. so if that helps i dunno
Jack Soo who had been in a Japanese internment camp died in 1979 while playing Nick Yemana on what TV series?
Barney Miller
What happen to the Japanese - Americans during World War 2?
Due to fears of spying and sabotage, there was a general relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps." Those living in militarily important areas of the Pacific coast were removed from their homes and placed in the large, guarded camps in remote desert areas. While not overtly mistreated, most internees suffered from inadequate facilities, shortages of food, and limited medical care.Despite this, some eligible internees join the American military. Many joined the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a highly decorated unit of Japanese-American soldiers.After three years of mostly negative court decisions, the US Supreme Court declared that the involuntary detention was unconstitutional, and the citizens were released from the camps, most by mid-1945 as the war with Japan neared its end.
How did the concentration in America differ from the camps in Germany?
While supposedly set up to protect Germany from internal threats, Germany's "work camps" (concentration camps) were a front for the extermination of those deemed "undesirable" by the Nazis, mainly Jews. The enslavement of Jews from invaded countries provided free labor for German industry and an efficient system for genocide. By contrast, the American system of "relocation" and "internment" camps were based on fear of those of Oriental heritage (even those not remotely Japanese). The WW II propaganda campaigns were aimed at demonizing and dehumanizing the Japanese enemy, to the point that all Asians became the target of racial prejudice. Many innocent Japanese and Chinese families were forcibly transported to controlled camps for the duration of the war. More than 120,000 individuals from the Pacific Coast, nearly two-thirds of them American citizens, were imprisoned, while comparatively small numbers were detained from among the population of Hawaii. (see related link)
Who held the Japanese Americans in camps in 1942?
Both the US and Canadian governments excluded those of Japanese ancestry from the areas of the Pacific coast. In many cases they were interned in isolated camps for up to three years during World War II. While not concentration camps, they were definitely not comfortable for the internees, most of whom were American citizens although the children of Japanese immigrants.
