Japanese Internment Camps Injustice

American citizens were treated like prisoners because of their Japanese background. Though years later these citizens were given an apology and compensation for what they lived through, this moment will always be a moment that will put a shadow on the history of

The cause for the encampments was rooted in the hatred the American society had towards the Japanese. Discriminating and Judging

On December, 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. As a result the Americans decided to intern those of Japanese descent on the west-coast of the United States. The Japanese were uprooted from their homes and were relocated to internment camps where they would live their lives for the next 4 years. Japanese internment was a horrid act put upon those of Japanese ancestry in World War II, only using the common good as a reason to judge why the Japanese should be interned. The Civil liberties of the Japanese on the west-coast were more important than the common good because there was no valid evidence that the Japanese were planning an attack with their homeland.

The incident at Pearl Harbor stirred fear in many people and considered a very daring attack. Because of the treatment

How would you feel if you were punished for something you didn’t do? This is what happened to many Japanese Americans. After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Americans lost trust with the Japanese Americans. There were many events that caused the Japanese internment camps, not just the Pearl Harbor attack. Political pressure was also a big factor.

Japanese Internment Buses were taking people to an unknown destination. The buses were full of Japanese American men, women and children. They were all heading to internment camps. The event that caused this happened on December 7, 1941. On that day Japanese warplanes bombed an American naval base at Pearl Harbor.

World War II took place between 1939 and 1945, the war was against Germany, Japan and Italy, meanwhile when the war was taken place, in America some Japanese Americans were victims of discrimination and racism. All this discrimination, and racism increased right after Pearl Harbor (1941) because the government started to suspect that some of these Japanese Americans will sympathize with the Japan attack and progressive they would start to support them. During this period, those Japanese people who used to live in America were victims of a bad treatment of discrimination. The Americans took their rights away, they cannot became citizens or own land, after this around 120,000 Japanese Americans moved to prison camps around the country. This Japanese-American internment was just the separate of Japanese people from American people.

The fear of an invasion went in the minds of Americans. This was an idea that was thought by many military authorities. So they had a right to send the Japanese to the internment camps. ”Military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and… because they decided that the military urgency of the situation demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily(Black,1944). “There is no Japanese ‘problem’ on the Coast.

World War II brought many things to the United States: an end to the Great Depression, a strong sense of nationalism, and a large economic boom. However, it also brought the Japanese American Internment Camps, a dark piece of America’s history. Japanese American Internment Camps relocated many people of Japanese descent to enclosed camps. Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, any and all Japanese Americans were viewed as suspicious and untrustworthy. Americans were paranoid during this time period, and would do anything to keep their country safe from foreign powers.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese Internment Camps were built during World War Two. The internment began in early 1942 and lasted until the war's end in 1945. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and imprisoned in internment camps by the United States government during WWII. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which caused widespread fear and discrimination against Japanese Americans, several camps were built. Even though the fact that a large percentage of Japanese Americans were US citizens and presented no threat to national security, the US administration justified internment as a necessary action to prevent spies and sabotage by Japanese Americans.

In conclusion, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of their nationalist mentality, America’s embargo of oil to Japan and fearing that the United States will attack them first. The first reason why Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor was because the Japanese had nationalistic and narcissistic political mentality. The Japanese believed the Yamato race was a superior race to the other Asian race(Document A). They also believed they will become the “new order” once Europe and America crumble and become the “old orders”(Document A).

The United States chose to discriminate against the Japanese before the attacks on Pearl Harbor due to the large flow of Japanese immigration with in the west coast. The fact that a good portion of this discrimination and racism was shown through various different print sources is very astounding, especially since most of this took place in 1941, the year in which the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the island of Pearl Harbor. Simon Worrall shows some examples of discrimination in his non-fiction article How Racism Arrogance, and Incompetence Led to Pearl Harbor. He says, “If you read the American magazines and newspapers in 1941, it’s amazing how the Japanese were considered a funny, curious people who were technologically inept. They were supposedly physiologically incapable of being good aviators because they lacked a sense of balance and their eyes were not right”

Around the 1940’s, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from their own houses to ten different internment camps across America. These internment camps were in some of the most unpopular and undesirable place in the U.S. Even though most of the Japanese-Americans were U.S. citizens and had never even been to Japan, Americans still thought they would spoil the American culture. Since most of the camps were unfinished when President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066,

However, despite the Japanese working hard for their families, Americans became resentful and started to discriminate the innocent Japanese. Supported by “Envy and racial discrimination led to increasing anti-Japanese attitudes on the West Coast,” (Mercier, (n/d). A more violent approach was used by other countries such as Idaho, They drove out the Japanese laborers (Mercier, (n/d). The discrimination continued, only worsening as time went by, laws were going to be made against the Japanese. For example, Mercier states “Post-World War I nativist activists, including the Hood River Anti-Alien Association, pressured states to pass laws prohibiting Japanese immigrants from leasing or owning land” (n/d).

The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.