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Fearing that Japanese living in the United States would help Japan, the government gathered up almost 120,000 Japanese-Americans and resident Japanese aliens and placed them in internment camps. Some people remained in the camps for over three years.

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The USA was worried about the Japanese-Americans on the coast supplying Japanese with information and helping the Japanese attack the USA in any way. So the USA put the Japanese-Americans in internment camps.

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The USA, UK, Canada, Russia had internment camps for the Japanese, Italian and German POWS and citizens. Pretty much any country at war had some form of camp. They can be divided into POW camps and civilian internment camps for citizens who were suspected (legitimately and otherwise) of sympathising with the enemy. For example, in Petawawa, Ontario Canada, a camp was set up to detail German-Canadians.

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See website(s): WW2 internment camps

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