Why were Japanese-American interned in camps during World War 2?

Answer 1

"Over the course of the war, a total of 1,875 Hawaii residents of Japanese ancestry were removed and interned on the mainland."

Source:

Daniel Kahikina Akaka. AKAKA APPLAUDS GORE INITIATIVE TO PRESERVE World War II-ERA JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT SITES. 9 Feb. 2000. 4 Dec. 2007 http://akaka.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=pressreleases.home&month=2&year=2000&release_id=596.

EDIT:

Actually, quite alot of the Japanese-American population lived in Hawaii. So they couldn't put them all in internment, because the state's economy would fail. And since many Japanese people did live there, there was much less prejudice. Not to mention their military officer of Hawaii did not agree with the rest of America's view on Japanese-Americans.

Answer 2

In reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt under United States Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona; German and Italian citizens, permanent residents, and American citizens of those respective ancestries (and American citizen family members) were removed from (among other places) the West and East Coast and relocated or interned, and roughly one-third of the US was declared an exclusionary zone. Oklahoma housed German and Italian POW's at Fort Reno, located near El Reno, and at Camp Gruber, near Braggs, Oklahoma. Almost 120,000 Japanese Americans and resident Japanese aliens would eventually be removed from their homes and relocated. About 2,200 Japanese living in South America (mostly in Peru) were transported to the United States and placed in internment camps

Answer 3

Yes, all of them were interned with no regard to Constitutional rights. The only ones released were men of military age to fight in the 442nd Regiment in Italy. They fought with distinction, and many of them died. Many other Japanese Americans died from sickness in the internment camps which were unsanitary. The Japanese Americans were not the only ones interned during the war, but they were the only ones interned in the US strictly because of their race.

Answer 4

Many believed that Japanese Americans would be loyal to their homeland, many Americans thought they were spying on US bases and Factories and reporting what hey saw/ heard about the American plans

Answer 5

We (U.S.A) were in the middle of World War II, which threatened not only our free way of life but our lives as well. The attackers, the Axis, was composed of three countries: Germany, Italy and Japan. There was concern that Japanese people (living in the U.S.) might have loyalties to Japan rather than to the U.S. and thus present a danger. It is now generally believed that it was wrong for us to have interred Japanese-Americans, but we now have the luxury of not being under such a grave threat to our country.

Answer 6

Japanese people or those of Japanese descent were placed into interment camps because the United States Government feared that there were Japanese spies in America spying for the Japan. However, more than two thirds of those in the camps were American citizens and half were children.

Answer 7

No, the Immigration population of Japanese residents was was more than a minority population.

Answer 8

The U.S government believe they were spies sent by the Japanese to disrupt the war effort