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If you are referring to those that lived in America, they took them all and put them in concentration camps. Despite the fact that they may have been American citizens or have been born in America. The government was afraid that they might become spy's for Japan or attack US infrastructure.

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In 1942 the U.S government began the internment , or forced relocation and imprisonment, of the Japanese.

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During WW2; National Security.

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