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Not all Japanese Americans were placed in Internment Camps, but the majority were. The ones that were not put in camps were generally Japanese immigrants who did not live near the Pacific.

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Where were the relocation camps for the Japanese in the US during World War 2?

US Internment Camps during WW IIThe related link site will have a map of all the Japanese-American Internment camps in the United States during World War II.


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How did the US justify interning Japanese-Americans during World War 2?

Badly. Some of the military leaders in California were .... OK, racists, and decided that Japanese might be disloyal. After all, they might send signals to Japanese airplanes or saboteurs, right? So, many Japanese, and Americans of Japanese ancestry, were interned in rather unpleasant conditions away from the coast for the duration of the war. It's astonishing, therefore, that when the Army asked for Japanese to volunteer for service, that so many did, and served so heroically. The 442nd Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, fought in Europe and were the most highly decorated unit in American history. As an interesting side-note, Japanese in Hawaii were not interned, even though Hawaii was far more densely populated with Japanese, and there were virtually no acts of sabotage or espionage among Japanese or Japanese-Americans.


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Why is it important to know what caused executive order 9066?

Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas "as deemed necessary or desirable." The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area. By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps built by the U.S. military in scattered locations around the country. For the next two and a half years, many of these Japanese Americans endured extremely difficult living conditions and poor treatment by their military guards. On December 17, 1944, U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issued Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that, effective January 2, 1945, Japanese-American "evacuees" from the West Coast could return to their homes. During the course of World War II, 10 Americans were convicted of spying for Japan, but not one of them was of Japanese ancestry. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill to recompense each surviving internee with a tax-free check for $20,000 and an apology from the U.S. government.

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Where were many Japanese Americans forced to live during world war 2?

All of the above. Apex


Why did the Americans keep Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War 2?

the Japanese bombed pearl harbor and we thought all Japanese were evil


Japanese Americans were sent to relocation camps because of the?

suspicion of anyone of Japanese


What was true about Japanese Americans in ww2?

Sadly there were 110,000 - 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to the internment camps during WW2.


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 reason was given or the internment of Japanese Americans?

There were internement camps because Americans were afraid there were Japanese American's were spying for the Japanese so all Japanese even innocent people were forced into camps just because they were from a similar spectrum of background as the pilots who had bombed Pearl Harbor.


What games did Japanese Americans play in internment camps and how do you play them?

All i know is they played baseball


Were Japanese Americans during ww II convicted of espionage?

No Japanese Americans at all were convicted of Espionage. Even so, when they left camps, they faced discrimination and rasicsm.


Why was it unfair for the Japanese-Americans to go to internment camps?

The Americans thought the Japanese-Americans were in contact with the Japanese that planned the pearl harbor attack so they had them sent to interment camps but in actuallity the Japanese-Americans weren't in contact with Japan at all (maybe family) but not the military so they were sent without being able to testify or prove their innocense before being sent unfairly.


Where were Japanese Americans held in internment camps?

They are located in the United States


Describes the Japanese Americans interned during the war?

During World War II, Japanese Americans were treated extremely unfairly. Specifically, President Roosevelt signed an executive order which called for all Japanese Americans in the US to be rounded up and moved into camps.


During world war 2 japense americans were?

Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps ~ look to the related link below .