How were the Japanese in the US affected during the war?

Answer 1

There are numerous wars in history and most of them are irrelevant to Japanese-Americans. Assuming by "the war", the question exclusively refers to World War II, the following is the answer:

Unfortunately, racism was a huge part of United States history and Blacks were not the only race to suffer unequal and prejudicial treatment. Asian-Americans did not become accepted as "true Americans" until the mid-1960s. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, many Americans saw the Japanese-Americans as a fifth column. This meant that they viewed the Japanese-Americans as secret spies for Japan and inherently disloyal to the United States. Strangely, from a modern perspective, German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and Italian-Americans, who were much more vociferous opponents of US Military policy in World War II were not even considered for discriminatory treatment, showing that this boils down to racism and fear of Asians more than it does legitimate security concerns.

In order to deal with this perceived loyalty, the President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. This order was used to round up Japanese-Americans all along the Pacific coast (the largest area of Japanese-Americans in the United States) and place them in internment camps. In 1944, the US Supreme Court upheld the validity of the camps on the grounds of necessary military action. Surprisingly, the Japanese-American response was not to riot or protest, but to actively seek to assist the United States military in World War II. To "prevent" the Japanese-Americans from being in contact with other Japanese, most Japanese-American units were sent to the Italian Front, where some of them earned the highest amounts of commendations and medals. After the war, the Japanese-Americans were released from the camps without any property of money from which to make a living. However, many of them were resourceful and able to sustain themselves in the following decades.

In the 1980s, the US Federal Government admitted its wrongdoing and compensated every family that still had a surviving member from the internment camps for this violation of their civil liberties.

Answer 2

They were not available to affect American life. After Pearl Harbor, all Japanese and Japanese Americans in the US were interned in camps for the rest of the war. It was a violation of the Constitutional Rights of the Japanese Americans, some of whom had been US citizens since birth.

Answer 3

One effect of WWII on the Japanese Americans living in the US was the general loss of freedoms. After war was declared between Japan and the US, Japanese Americans all along the West coast were rounded up, and placed in large concentration camps. Don't confuse American camps with the Nazi Death Camps in Europe. The Nazi camps primary goal was to murder everyone that was interned within it, or to basically work them to death. The US camps were intended to simply round up the Japanese Americans, and keep an eye on them throughout the war. Still, those that were interned in US camps had to live in wooden barracks, surrounded by barbed wire fences and guard towers, and had few of the comforts of home. Those interned in these camps remained there until the end of the war, or until they joined up with the US military, at which point they were allowed to leave.

Another effect was the general hate and racism directed at the Japanese Americans for their Japanese ancestry. Common practice during war is to demonize your enemy, and WWII was no different. All nations attempted to demonize their opponents in some way or another. The US sought to create hate against both the Germans and the Japanese in order to make it easier for the soldiers to kill, and for the population to support them. Because the Japanese were being demonized, it was only natural that may Americans started to see anyone who had Japanese ancestry, or looked Japanese, as the enemy, and instead of directing violence against these Japanese Americans, they instead directed their hate and racism.

Answer 4

Your mom was the affect....

Answer 5

See: Japanese American internment