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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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No, you can't generalize. It is dependent on a person's personal experiences to choose their morals and ethics, so no, Japanese people are not racist against blacks, only certain people are, and these people can be chosen from any race, of course.
Whilst the answer above is true, the Japanese people are not racist, per se. They are rather 'against' foreigners. But you cannot generalize all Japanese to be xenophobic; many are not, and if you show them respect and courtesy, which is very important in their culture, they are lovely people. However, many tourists do not understand Japanese customs and can do things which they may dismiss as trivial, but could be taboo in Japan. Hence the phrase 'baka gaijin' or 'stupid foreigner'. I am sure that if anyone respects and behaves in a controlled manner, the Japanese are just as nice as any of your friends.
It's the same with France. ("stupid americans"..). I think if you at least learn the language and learn how things are done then you should be fine. For your first trip though, you might want to try somewhere more culturally diverse like Spain or Thailand. They would probably be more used to you.
Why did the US keep the Japanese in concentration camps?
It was feared that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to Japan, which was at war with the US during WW II, than they were to the US in which they lived. This was very unfair to the Japanese who had done nothing to demonstrate disloyalty to America, and the wartime internment of the Japanese remains a shameful blot on American history.
What jobs did Japanese have in internment camps?
In Canada, in most parts, they worked on and built rail roads.
What was the main constitutional issue raised by Japanese internment during ww2?
Most detainees were U.S. citizens held without charges or the prospect of a speedy hearing.
How are concentration camps and internment camps terms conncected?
they are essentially the same thing; they are camps for a civilian population.
What was the rationale for the supreme court to uphold the internment of Japanese Americans in 1944?
America was scared that the American Japanese that were living there were spys
How were the prisoners for the Japanese interment camps selected?
Concentration camps were established in 1933 and were primarily for political prisoners. Extermination camps were first established in 1941 and were for groups that the Nazis wanted to exterminate completely - Jews and 'gypsies'.
From late 1944 onwards some Jews were transferred from the more easterly camps, especially Auschwitz, to ordinary concentration camps and the distinction became somewhat blurred.
What caused Japanese people to be relocated from the west coast and confined in internment camps?
Answer 1
What basically started it was Pearl Harbor
They did it out of fear of them fighting alongside the Japanese.
Answer 2
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.
What did the Executive Order 9066 authorize?
Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized the military to designate certain areas as military zones from which any individuals could be excluded. This order primarily led to the forced internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, during World War II. The decision was justified by the government as a national security measure, although it was later recognized as a violation of civil liberties.
Why did roosevelt move the Japanese to camps?
the citizens made the president put them in camps because they thought they wouldatack from the inside.
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What was the major reason for relocating many Japanese Americans to government run internment camps?
Because of the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the US Government was very suspicious about Japanese people living in America. They thought they were spies. So they were relocated because the US was afraid they were spies for Japan. Hope this helped! :)
Why were the people in the camps in the camps?
Hitler believed that he was destined to for germany to rule the world and he wanted a pure "arryan" race and unfortinuly Many people were discrimated and mainly jews of all kinds in europe,gypies,poles,soviet soldiers,disabled and colored people and wanted them all erraticed
What ethnicity were the people in internment camps?
They were Japanese people with no other races mixed into their generations. However, though they were purebred genetically the younger generations were AMERICANS legally because they were born in the USA. There were third and fourth generations (just babies) in the internment camps. There were Japanese labels for these generations called Issei, Nisei, Sansei and Yonsei. See the related links below.
What was the death rate in Japanese prison camps?
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What did Japanese die of in the Concentration camps in World War 2?
Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.
Why were Japanese Americans forced to be in internment camps?
Because they made up 1/3 of a multi-racial society, irrational fear fueled their prejudices which lead to the evacuation and interment of the Japanese-American communities.
Preexisting conditions started decades before the war. When Orientals started emigrating to Hawaii and the West Coast, which included people coming from China, Korea, the Philippine, and Japan, prejudices induced by fear permeated in American society. Ignorance of cultural differences and fears of taking jobs from the American population ignited violent outbreaks from the labor force as well as the American Legion. In 1907, the Gentlemen's Agreement between Japan and the US prevented further immigration for men but allowed wives to immigrate. However, in 1924, the Immigration Act banned ALL Orientals from immigrating to the US.
When the Japanese military invaded China in 1937, the American public again began to feel uneasy having a population of about 120,000 people of Japanese origin living on the West Coast. And when Pearl Harbor ensued, it solidified people's fears and prejudices. Immediately after the news of Pearl Harbor, men without citizenship were hauled off by the FBI and sent to mock trails of espionage. Bank accounts were frozen for their families. They were required to turn in all items that were considered a danger to society such as short wave radios, guns, knives, and binoculars. A curfew was imposed. The Chinese had to wear a tag that stated they were NOT Japanese. Rumors plagued the media which insinuated espionage up and down the coast line.
Then on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington. Thus the evacuation began and placed all people who had Japanese blood into internment camps, including those with only one sixteenth.
How long were Japanese citizens held in internment camps in the US?
Most Japanese were in the camps for 3 years. Following Executive Order 9066 (February 19, 1942), the first Relocation Centers were staffed in March, 1942. Following the US Supreme Court ruling in January, 1945, most internees were released between April and November, 1945. Some were held for various reasons (including criminal offenses) into 1946, and the \"segregation\" camp at Tule Lake closed in March of that year.
What is the difference between Japanese internment camps and nazi concentration camps?
Japanese Internment Camps were in the United States. They housed the Japanese Americans in these camps to search for spies and keep them from turning into spies. These camps were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. So they were held illegally. The camp conditions were miserable. They had inadequate housing, bathrooms, food, and many did get sick from the camps. There were not killed or beaten or shot as the people were in the German Concentration camps. Some of the Japanese sons joined the war to prove their allegiance to the United States. The Japanese lost their homes, businesses and possessions. Some Japanese farmers had nice neighbors who kept their farms grow and producing and kept their houses safe but this was the exception not the rule. Many Americans back then were prejudiced against the Japanese, Chinese and other Asians. Truly sad.
The German Concentration camps were filled with Jewish people slated to be killed or used for free hard labor. They were also filled with the "undesirables" the Nazis wanted out of the population. They were communists, political prisoners, religious people, dwarfs, Downs Syndrome people, feeble minded, people with congenital defects, the mentally ill and anyone else they felt like putting into the camps. There were POW camps too. In the camps the conditions were not merely miserable they were deplorable. They were filthy, disease ridden, and the buildings had no heat or beds. The prisoners were put into pajamas. They did not all have coats or shoes. The camps were designed to kill and cremate the people. Some camps had gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews daily. The people died from disease, exposure, dehydration, starvation, dysentery and murder by the Nazis. One of the most horrible things that happened to the prisoners was the medical experiments conducted on them. I couldn't write what happened to them. This entire project of eliminating people Hitler did not approve of was called The Final Solution. His goal was to have the population be only of pure Aryan descent. Incidentally, there is no medical word/fact or sociological human grouping of "Aryans". It was a word Hilter borrowed from some books he read.
Did any Japanese-Americans flee the U.S. to avoid the internment camps?
After the tragic Pearl Harbor bombing, that brought the United States into the second World War, Americans began mistreating the Japanese residing here. All Japanese-Americans, including citizens, were all put into Internment camps. There were hundreds and hundreds of them, in an area as small as a square mile. They were not given proper bedding, food, or restrooms. This was a sad time for the Japanese-Americans.
You may want to read the book "Manzanar". It is based off of a true story.
Where in Arizona were the Internment Camps for Japanese Americans?
Gila River and Poston had War Relocation Centers, Leupp had a Citizen Isolation Center for what were called problem inmates, Florence had an Army Facility where German, Italian and Japanese of high risk internees were held, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons used Catalina and Camp Florence for actual convicted criminals. In addition temporary assembly Centers were located at Parker Dam, Cove Creek and Mayer.
What are the Japanese Interment camps?
Japanese Relocation Camps are located on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in the relocation camps?
After the event of Pearl Harbor, Americans felt threatened by the Japanese-Americans. The Americans thought the Japanese-Americans on the East coast had contact with their kind in Japan and that they should cut that conact. They immedietly started moving all Japanese-Americans to interment camps all over, but left them the choice of either going to the camps, or going to Japan. Not many moved back to Japan, feeling defient and angry. The Japanese-Americans lived in their camp for under ten years, and then where allowed to leave.
What happen to Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast during the war?
Americans feared that they were working with Japan. Also, there was deep seeded prejudice and economic rivalry. Nativist politicians and farmers wanted Japanese-American land and so they whipped up the rage of Californians, and they were aided by the false government report that Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were helping the Japanese naval force.
What was life like in internment camps?
- it was very rough a lot of people died from it.
Lots of hard work, very long hours on inadequate food, ill treatment.
- Concentration camps were where they forced mainly Jews to hard work labour. when they got to concentration camp, the victims were scripped naked and their hair was shaved off. there meals were very small, turnip soup and bread with sawdust on it. they only had two cups of dirty water a day and they had to chose it drink it or to wash with it, so people got dirty and lice-ridden really quickly. there was no ill treatment they were just sent to a new hut where all the sick people lived until they died. overall 6 million jews died alone in concentration camps in 6 years
How much money did it take to make the internment camp?
The cost of building a Labor Camp was Zero, Nada, Zilch. It was a profit making enterprise and here is how it worked: Joe gets a contract say to make widgets. He contracts with the SS for slave laborers who are skilled widget makers and pays the Nazi's a fixed price for each laborer for each day that he needs them. Joe's Widget Plant take the slaves and works them to death making widgets. He only feeds them enough to keep them productive and if they die, he contracts with the SS for more laborers. The profits made by the SS were enormous and more than adequate to cover the cost of establishing transit, holding and extermination camps. It was a win - win situation.
