Japanese-Americans had more restrictions that Italian and German because they were more powerful. They won the war.
Clearly, the Japanese Americans were much easier to spot. But the Italian and German Americans had it just as bad in their concentration camps, largely in Montana and Texas.
Japanese Americans born in America are American citizens. The term Japanese Americans means that they are of Japanese decent but live in the US.
Japanese-Americans .
The government's reasoning behind isolating the Japanese-Americans was because the United States felt that they were not trust worthy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and that the Japanese-American's might try to attack the Americans.
Japanese-Americans had more restrictions that Italian and German because they were more powerful. They won the war.
Clearly, the Japanese Americans were much easier to spot. But the Italian and German Americans had it just as bad in their concentration camps, largely in Montana and Texas.
Japanese Americans born in America are American citizens. The term Japanese Americans means that they are of Japanese decent but live in the US.
CORE Congress of racial equality. African Americans in the military, Mexican Americans in wartime and the Japanese Americans in the War effort: Japanese American Citizens League.Read more: What_events_show_the_persistence_of_racial_tension_during_World_War_2
See: Japanese American internment camps
American-born children of Japanese immigrants; second generation Japanese Americans.
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Both the German concentration camps and the American interment camps had a lot of stock in the fear and prejudice citizens had against the minorities. Obviously, the German government continually stated that Germans were a threat to the Aryan race, but the American media also portrayed Japanese Americans as a threat to the white race. Japanese Americans were put under a lot of the same civil rights restrictions as African Americans at the time, too...
About 120,000 Japanese-Americans, 3/4 LOYAL Americans (Nisei).
because many Americans feared that Japanese American were spies
Not all Japanese Americans were placed in Internment Camps, but the majority were. The ones that were not put in camps were generally Japanese immigrants who did not live near the Pacific.
Americans of Japanese descent.