What did Japanese live in while in Japanese-American Internment Camps?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

It 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.

ANSWER 2

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.

Answer 3

They lived in ply wood houses