They were unconstitutionally interned, had their businesses and homes taken from them and they were not released until long after the war was over even though the Supreme Court judges ruled the internments were wrong. They had to start over with nothing. They did get some reparations for the US about 40 years later. That was a big blight on the Americans.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 by Japan, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February of 1942 that led to the internment of Japanese American living on the West Coast. Japanese Americans in this part of the country were removed from their homes and sent to internment camps for the duration of World War 2.
Fate in Japanese is 'unmei'. written in kanji ; 運命
Americans - 1,794 killed / Japanese - 10,695 killed .
There were close to 100,000 Japanese-Americans living in California in 1940.
California currently has the highest population of Americans of Japanese descent.
Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2
The U.S. government put many Japanese Americans in internment camps
because many Americans feared that Japanese American were spies
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the fear that Japanese-Americans might betray the U.S.
See website: Japanese-American internment
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