The Americans suspected the other Japanese people who lived in America because they thought that they were spies.But fortunetly they werent!!
California currently has the highest population of Americans of Japanese descent.
In 1940, close to 100,000 Japanese-Americans lived in California. Nearly 160,000 lived in Hawaii.
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Canada: Canadian citizens of Japanese descent lived in the internment camps. I'm not too sure about the Americans :P
Approximately 120,000 Japanese and/or Japanese-Americans lived in the US during and prior to WW2; of which over 90,000 lived in California.
Any Japanese that lived on the west coast of America, including most of California.Approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals.
Japanese people have always lived in Japan. Even in the feudal days.
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Distrust and racism led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. Even families that had lived in the United States for generations were sent to camps.
First of all, they were Japanese, not Japanese Americans. It's redundant. A lot of people harbored anger towards all Japanese people, even those who were American citizens. Although they shouldn't have thought that way since almost all of the Japanese in America were loyal to America during and after WWII, some people were still just mad. I guess they thought they should be mad at everyone that was Japanese, even though they should have been mad at Japan, not people that had lived in the U.S. before the war even started.