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Because america was in war with japenese and once the americans captured the japenese,they putted them into concentration camps

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Japanese Americans were easier to identify than German Americans, so they could be interned easier. The US had a history of racism, especialli against Orientals, 1882 the Asian Exculsion act took away citizenship and all right of ownership from all Oriental Americans, the internent was just another part of the process.

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The U.S governnment had a paranoid theory that, the Japanese Americans were cooperating with Japan, and that they were getting ready to perform a coup on the U.S government. So in turn, they locked the Japanese Americans up to stop this 'coup' from happening.

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They weren't. The government just feared that many of them were also Japanese spies, and put as many of them as the gov. could find and put them into RELOCATION camps. Though later, many of these relocatees recalled how the camps were very much like concentration camps.

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