Because they were a different race. We were also at war with Germany and Italy, but German and Italian-Americans weren't imprisoned.
(alternate answer) During WW II, when the US was at war with Imperial Japan, it was feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to their ethnic group, the Japanese, than they were to the country in which they were living, America, hence they might become saboteurs (or as they would be called today, terrorists). Note that there was no evidence for this fear, and the internment of the Japanese Americans is today recognized as a terrible injustice.
The effects on the internment of Japanese-Americans was negative psychologically. Shock and fear plagued the Japanese-Americans as a result of the internment camps.
Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2
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If born in the US, Japanese Americans are American citizens. They have all the rights as every person born in America.
Japanese-Americans.
Japanese Americans born in America are American citizens. The term Japanese Americans means that they are of Japanese decent but live in the US.
The effects on the internment of Japanese-Americans was negative psychologically. Shock and fear plagued the Japanese-Americans as a result of the internment camps.
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
Japanese Americans were temporarily imprisoned in isolated locations
They never left the US.
They thought that the Japanese Americans might be spies.
Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2
The government feared the japanese americans could not be trusted
Because the US leaders feared that the Japanese Americans might help Japan in World War ll.
It was the forced relocation by the US of the Japanese Americans~Sarah
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