Racism was strong in the US in the 1940s and there was a fear that the were spies or saboteurs for Japan. Like blacks the Japanese people are easy to recognize and thus easy to discriminate against. There was also a strong (but incorrect) belief that the attack on Pearl Harbor could not have been as effective as it was had there not been Japanese agents on the island somehow helping guide the attacking planes in, and they would of course have been Japanese Americans. To prevent this possibility on the west coast, Japanese Americans had all their property confiscated and then they were sent to concentration camps well inland from the coast. (yes we called them internment camps, but they were concentration camps regardless of that they were called)
During WWII, Japanese-Americans were perceived as potential spies and detained until the war's end in detention camps.
See website: Japanese American internment. They did not detain Asians. They detained Americans who were descendants of Japanese ancestors.
unhappily detained in detention camps
A little over 100,000 Japanese were held in internment camps.
Japanese-Americans .
yes, even though they were detained, they would have access to the courts. however they were private courts in the detention camps held in the United States.
Americans of Japanese descent.
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans
They thought that the Japanese Americans might be spies.
How were civil liberties denied Japanese Americans during World War II.