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Japanese Internment Camps
After the US was bombed at Pearl Harbor, Japanese internment camps (also called War Relocation Camps by the US government) were set up in parts of Canada and the US. Thousands of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians were relocated to these internment camps, which were disbanded in 1945.
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Why were Japanese forced into internment camps?
The reasons are rather Un-American. The people of the government overreacted and wanted to round up all the Germans, Italians and Japanese to see if they were spies and keep them interned. They did not put the Germans and Italians into camps because famous people told the government people it would be unfair and impossible with the amount of Germans and Italians in the United States. No one spoke up on behalf of the Japanese. So they were interned unconstitutionally and unfairly. They could not understand the Japanese people had no allegiance to Japan and were not spies.
2 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the executive order 9066, ordering all Japanese Americans to evacuate to the west coast. They were forced to go to relocation centers which were racetracks,fairgrounds, and opened areas surrounded by barbed wire.
How did the US government treat the US Japanese citizens after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The US and Canada interned their Japanese citizens in horrible camps illegally. The Supreme Court determined the US Government had broken the constitution when they interned the Japanese people, took their homes and possessions and shut down their businesses.
The camps were not suitable or habitable for humans to live in. They were kept in these camps until up to a year after the war was over. An excellent book to read is Farewell to Manzanar to learn what the Japanese went through and how mistreated they were when they were innocent citizens.
Why are Japanese internment camps created?
Americans were afraid of any more attacks from the japaneses
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Why did the government put Japanese in concentration camps?
they were interned after the attacks as if they were Japanese spys, which of course was ridiculous because applying that logic the Italians and Germans resident in America should have been interned too.
Besides the Italians, my family, the Germans, if you continue on that tract almost all Americans qualified to be put into camps. If applied today, then all Arabs and Persians would be put into camps. How foolish we are to even talk about such a poor policy.
This is supossed to be a free country with a stalwart Constitution, that our Government feels they can violate at the slightest cost, such as the so-called Patriot act. The Feds can break into your house and imprison you with no valid justification or proof of breaking the laws of the constitution.
All the worlds governments from Fed, state, to local are all flawed now. Freedom, real American Freedom is a memory.
it should also be added that some of those detained were American citizens.
Why were Japanese Americans interned in relocation camps?
Internment is imprisonment without trial.
1. They were the places where Japanese people in the US and other enemy aliens were taken during World War 2.
2. In all countries fighting in World War 2 there were scares about enemy aliens - that is foreigners with the nationality of the enemy countries - and many of them were interned (locked up without any charge). In all the Allied countries there were screening procedures in place. Also, the criteria changed at various points during the war.
3. In some Allied countries there was also provision for interning people thought likely to act as subversives. So, in Britain for example, some members of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and a few other organizations were interned, despite the fact that there they British citizens. (There's even a story about a young man who went underground because he was pro-Nazi: he didn't want to serve in the British armed forces and of course didn't want to be interned, either. So he changed his name and and didn't report for the draft, but instead led an illegal, shadowy existence till about 1970).
It's where people got raped. :(
What was the purpose of the japanese internment camps during the war?
Thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced to live in Japanese internment camps in the U.S. There were really no benefits to the relocation and it proved to be the largest violations of civil liberties in American history.
How was the housing in the Japanese Internment camps?
Non-weather resistant, quick, sparse accommodations in non-residential structures in controllable or remote areas is what the Japanese internment camps were like. The buildings were designed previously for non-personal uses -- such as functioning as former racetracks -- even though -- depending upon the regulating agency -- educational, gardening, medical, and sports opportunities hopefully were tendered to children and families.
How did the Japanese-American citizens league fight for Japanese American civil rights?
The group sought compensation for World War II internment.
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What were American internment camps like for Japanese during World War 2?
I don't know exactly but I do know they were not pleasant. They did not play games with prisoners like the Japanese but if a prisoner was beaten or in one case I am aware of even killed, it was quite often simply over-looked with just a simple explanation of what had occurred sufficing as an investigation. Food was reasonable for a prisoner of war camp, accommodation would be very basic but dry and with minimal drafts, and in most the guards would be fairly humane, but resources would not be wasted needlessly on looking after the enemy.
a prejudice had intesified in the us
What year did the Japanese Internment stop?
The Japanese Internment Camps officially closed in March, 1946. Over 110,000 people of Japanese descent had been forced to live in the camps since 1942, when President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9060 to imprison them. When it was over, Japanese American citizens were only given $25 and a ticket back to their homes.
How much compensation to those in Japanese internment camps?
The Japanese-Americans didn't get lot or much money in WW2 during Peal Harbor Attack.
What was the cause of Japanese internment camps?
The Japanese-American internment camps were the result of the attack on Pearl Harbor,followed by the fact that most Japanese-Americans settled in various parts of the Hawaiian Islands and parts of the west coast of America.The FBI thought that some Japanese-Americans were sent by the Japanese Government to get information about U.S. Military (such as Pearl Harbor) to launch such a blow to weaken American defenses.The U.S. Government decided that every Japanese-American be put into a camp so that they could watched very closely.
What was government logic behind Japanese internment camps?
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In order to understand the reason for the internment of the Japanese, you have to know a bit about World War II. Japan and Germany were allies, both fighting on the same side against England, France, and several other countries. As the war began, the United States had not yet joined in. But on December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which was American territory even though it was not yet a state. With this attack, Japan automatically became our enemy, and the United States entered the war.
At this time, many Japanese people lived on the west coast of the United States. They worked hard, bought land, had children, got educations, and became citizens. They paid taxes and voted, just like other Americans. There were two problems, though. First, their country of origin, Japan, attacked the United States, and second, they were another race, and people then, as now, were sometimes prejudiced.
The United States government feared that Japanese people might be spies for Japan, and they took their land and placed them in camps, essentially ruining their lives without any evidence that any of them were spies.
Since the government did not take similar steps against German-Americans, it is reasonable to conclude that the internment was a result of prejudice against people of Asian origin.
That the government did this, without any evidence, is disgraceful and since that time, the government has formally apologized and made reparations to the people harmed or to their descendants. But this is not an episode in American history that we can be proud of.
Do Americans know about Japanese internment camps?
Betrayed by the US, angry at the nation that had attacked them and hurt that neighbors hadn't stood up for them.
What did Japanese live in while in Japanese-American Internment Camps?
Very insufficient food such as potatoes, rice, and hot dogs.
Also on Japanese holidays, such as New Years, they ate Japanese food, but on American holidays and other days, such as Thanksgiving or Tuesday, they ate American food
What happen with Japanese American internment?
By order of the US government (FDR's Executive Orders 9066 and 9102), they were relocated by law enforcement and military authorities, and guarded by the US Army.
Canada pursued a similar policy, to the extent of classifying Japanese-Canadians as enemy aliens, and removing almost all of them from British Columbia.
What is 'nothing' in Japanese?
kaimu kotonashi
those are two words for the Japanese translation for 'nothing'
Answer何もない (nanimonai) literally meaning "None".虚 (kyo) literally meaning "Imaginary".
水泡 (suihou) literally meaning "Nothing".
かいむ (kaimu) literally meaning "Nothing".
ことなし (kotonashi) literally meaning "Without".
What were internment camps before they were used on Japanese Americans?
Some conspiracy theorists claim the camps were built prior to Dec. 7. In a few cases, existing buildings, such as well-used smelly horse stables at racetracks, were used. Another example is former Civilian Conservation Corps camps out in the hills. In Hawaii, some camps were simple canvas tents with a fence around them. Most internment camps were located and built new specifically to house the internees, and after the war, fell into disuse. For example, ex-POW Gerald Coffee recalled that as a child in California, his family moved to Reno Nevada after the Pearl Harbor attack because his father left his lumberyard employment for a long term construction job near there. Years, later, he discovered the job was the construction of an internment camp!
How do relocation camps and internment camps differ?
They really were much different Relocation Camps and Internment camps were the same thing just that relocation camps were the real camps and internment camps were where the Japanese Americans had to go before they made the relocation camps.
Which group of people was placed in the west coast internment camps?
Under an Executive Order, Americans interred Japanese-Americans.
Why Japanese Americans were put in interment camps in the US?
Yes they were. Shameful though it may be, all Japanese US residents and Japanese-American citizens, young and old, male and female, all of them everywhere, were put into camps. Unlike the Germans and Italians in the US, the Japanese were interned collectively. Most of them were probably living in California when the US declared war on Japan, but internment applied to all people of Japanese descent in the US (and US territory such as the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines).
If i undertand the question ,the asker wanted to know if "all" people of Japanese heritage were put in camps during the war, and the answer is no. Of the 150,000 Japnese Living in Hawaii, 1200-1500 were interred during the war.There were not many of Japanese heritage living in the east but most of the few that did were not interred either. 62% of those interred were American citizens. In 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which " allowed authorized military commanders to designate "military areas" at their discretion, "from which any or all persons may be excluded." These "exclusion zones," unlike the "alien enemy" roundups, were applicable to anyone that an authorized military commander might choose, whether citizen or non-citizen. Eventually such zones would include parts of both the East and West Coasts, totaling about 1/3 of the country by area. Unlike the subsequent detainment and internment programs that would come to be applied to large numbers of Japanese Americans, detentions and restrictions directly under this Individual Exclusion Program were placed primarily on individuals of German or Italian ancestry, including American citizens."
When were Japanese Americans sent to Relocation Camps?
The reason relocation for Japanese Americans was put to use. Was due to the fact of the bombing Pearl Harbor. The American people were so stereotypical that they thought all Japanese people were linked to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were taken to places almost like the concentration camps in Germany. But these relocation camps were meant for holding people until the war with Japan was over. Not for exterminating a race from existence.
