The forced relocation of Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans in the United States to camps during World War II" class='external' title="world war ii. On February 19, 1942, the U.S. Army, acting under an order signed by President Franklin d roosevelt" class='external' title="Franklin d roosevelt (and ratified by Congress a month later), ordered nearly 120, 000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans into internment camps located in the central regions of the United States. Lawsuits were subsequently filed by Japanese Americans who claimed that their civil rights as U.S. citizens had been violated. However, the U.S. Supreme Court steadfastly upheld the legality of the evacuations. In 1983, a team of attorneys reopened cases resulting from the internment policy because of findings that the government's lawyers had suppressed evidence and made false statements in their original presentation to the Supreme Court. Lower courts overturned two wartime convictions. In 1988, Congress provided for partial restitution payments of $20, 000 to each of the 60, 000 survivors of the internment camps.
The forced relocation of Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans in the United States to camps during world war ii" class='external' title="world war ii. On February 19, 1942, the U.S. Army, acting under an order signed by President Franklin d roosevelt" class='external' title="Franklin d roosevelt (and ratified by Congress a month later), ordered nearly 120, 000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans into internment camps located in the central regions of the United States. Lawsuits were subsequently filed by Japanese Americans who claimed that their civil rights as U.S. citizens had been violated. However, the U.S. Supreme Court steadfastly upheld the legality of the evacuations. In 1983, a team of attorneys reopened cases resulting from the internment policy because of findings that the government's lawyers had suppressed evidence and made false statements in their original presentation to the Supreme Court. Lower courts overturned two wartime convictions. In 1988, Congress provided for partial restitution payments of $20, 000 to each of the 60, 000 survivors of the internment camps. Well this all would not have happened if Japanese peps did not cum and hurt Americans
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The Japanese
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They were interned in internment camps.
Japanese American property losses during their wartime internment.
No it was not - they were American citizens who had done nothing wrong. They were not fighting on the Japanese side during the war. The internment was caused by fear and racism.
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