About 120,000 Japanese-Americans, 3/4 LOYAL Americans (Nisei).
I'm not sure exactly. This is a way to get started. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans feared that the Japanese living in the United States would do something bad and were somehow linked to the goverment.
From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.
The US justified the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II primarily through national security concerns, claiming that individuals of Japanese descent posed a potential threat of espionage or sabotage following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Government officials argued that the internment was necessary to protect the country from possible subversion. This rationale was further supported by wartime hysteria and racial prejudice, leading to a widespread acceptance of the policy despite the lack of evidence for any actual disloyalty among Japanese Americans.
During World War II, people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, were removed to internment camps due to widespread fear and suspicion following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The U.S. government deemed them a potential security threat, despite a lack of evidence of disloyalty. This decision was fueled by racial prejudice and wartime hysteria, leading to the forced relocation of over 120,000 individuals to camps across the country. The internment is now recognized as a grave injustice and violation of civil rights.
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See website: Japanese-American internment camps.
People of Japanese heritage
The largest Japanese Internment Camp built during World War 2 was the Oikawa camp in Nevada. It held approximately 50,000 people against their will during the war.
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Force or threaten the Japanese-People
No. The Japanese Internment camps were not hurtful, they simply isolated the Japanese from the rest of the country.
I believe sadly they were all sent to internment camps !
Under an Executive Order, Americans interred Japanese-Americans.
It means Japanese people Are un employed ; 0-
The American government placed people of Japanese descent into internment camps for fear that they would be succeptible to acts of espionage.
Japanese Internment camps were never a necessity. Based on a few Japanese people who hid a Japanese pilot, the entire population of Japanese Americans were convicted without a jury. Yet, Japanese Americans still continued to join the army, and go to fight for their country while their families were forced to live in internment camps. Historians agree this was a very dark time in American history.
They were ALL japaneese.