Why were Japanese Americans polentially disloyal?

Answer 1

The loyalty oath was controversial among Japanese-Americans mostly because they were asked to swear loyalty to a government that they did not necessarily support. This was a government that had already judged them because of their ancestry.

Answer 2

during the second world war the united states government cut off trade with Japan, which angered the japanese and eventually resulted in the japanese attack on pearl harbour (which sparked the united states's entry into the war)

the US government was concerned about japanese spies and generally discriminated against the japenes because of the attacks so the government put japanese americans in internment camps to confine them in case of spies.

(note that internment camps are not concentration camps)

Answer 3

One armed unit that fought in World War II was composed entirely of Japanese-Americans, and showed great valor fighting for the country they lived for. Many Japanese-Americans stepped forward to volunteer for an armed unit to be fighting against the Axis Powers. Fear that the Japanese-Americans would rebel was short-lived, and the Japanese-American unit became known.

Answer 4

They were not "potentially" disloyal. Thousands WERE clearly and unquestionably disloyal, and the proof is that several thousand renounced their U.S. citizenship during the war and several thousand requested their own repatriation back to Japan. They were sent on the ship "Gripsholm" back to Japan, both during and immediately after the war. The 112,000 evacuees who were relocated out of the West Coast Defense Zone during the war emergency of February 1942 did, in fact, include thousands of people who were disloyal to the United States. It also included over 40,000 enemy aliens who were obviously NOT U.S. citizens. The "citizens" were anchor babies. It is also true that at least 6,000 Nisei (anchor babies) served in the Japanese Army and Navy directly, in service against the United States during the war. Professor Stephans' of the University of Hawaii has compiled a database of their names and documented war service. See his book "Hawaii Under the Rising Sun."