Why were Japanese Americans interned in relocation camps?

Answer 1

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. :(

Answer 2

During WWII Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The government was frightened so they ordered that anyone of Japanese decent even if born in America was to be put in a concentration camp. The government did this because they believed any Japanese-American could be a threat to America.

Answer 3

Descendants of Asian ancestry were placed in internment camps as a precaution after Pearl Harbor was bombed. Many were thought to be spies for Japan.

Answer 4

They were blamed for the attack on Pearl Harbor and thought to be spies.

Answer 5

Americans thought the Japanese-Americans were allied with Japan because they were Japanese. They did this because of paranoia that more attacks would happen.