Internment Camps In Canada

In the article, it mentions that the Japanese who lived on the west coast of America and Canada were placed in camps that were in isolated areas of the United States. They were placed there because after Pearl Harbor, America was scared that their Japanese citizens

On December 7th, 1941,when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor there was a intense pressure of anti-Japanese feeling in Canada. They feared that the Japanese Canadians would help Japan to invade Canada 's West Coast. Anyone of Japanese origin in Canada were treated with suspicion, hatred and discrimination. Many spoke no Japanese and had little or no connection to Japan. But within a week the Japanese Canadian homes, businesses and boats were taken under the War Measures Act without any form of restitution.

I could not believe that the Canadian government not only considered the Japanese enemies, but the Canadian Japanese that were born and raised here as well. Issei, nisei, and sansei (first, second, and third generations) were no longer considered as “Canadians”, and were labeled as the Japanese. Their land was taken away and sold by the government, their possessions confiscated, families were torn apart, and they were forced to endure inhumane conditions once interned. When the war ended, I expected Naomi and her family to return to their homes in Vancouver, but on the contrary, they were not allowed to return home for four years after the end of WWII. Instead, they were sent to places further away if they did not wish to ‘return’ to Japan.

The Canadian Government and Society made a social and economic mistake of the Internment of Japanese Canadians and should still be embarrassed to this day. The Japanese Canadians were not allowed to defend themselves. The Japanese in Canada were considered guilty of who they were, not due to anything they have done. This created a violation of Japanese Canadian rights as Canadian citizens. The Canadian Governments Internment of Japanese Canadians was not an act of war, instead a Human Rights Violation.

The internment of Japanese-Americans was justified because there were Japanese suspects. Between ten internment camps in Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas, about 250-300 people in each camp were suspects under surveillance. Only around 50-60 people were actually considered dangerous. “It is easy to get on the suspect list, merely a speech in favor of Japan being sufficient to land one there” (Munson 2). Clearly, America was taking extreme precautions.

They were always looked down upon for the inability to speak the language there. Many businesses owned by Japanese people were vandalised, making it increasingly difficult for Japanese people to live in Canada. However, the Japanese Canadians posed no military threat at all, protecting them from any higher level of racism. After the Empire of Japanese decided to attacked Pearl Harbor, everything made a turn for the worse.

Life In Internment Camps An Internment camp means to put a person in prison or other type of detention, generally in wartime. Internment camps usually meant death. People were treated awful just because of things like their culture or religion. Only because some people did not like their beliefs.

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.

How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.

Prisoner of war camps were common during World War II. However, the book Unbroken displays the true horrors that were in the Japanese prisoner of war camps. This book captures the life of Louis Zamperini and tells the horrendous conditions that he and other prisoners faced during their time in the prisons. The Japanese internment camps did not fulfill the purpose of the camp, the treatment of the prisoners that they deserved; also the prisoners were given meaningless jobs to fulfill.

The experiences of Louis Zamperini and Jeanne Wakatsuki both do not complicate Mark Weber’s idea of the Good War about the clear-cut morality between the United States and Japan. During World War II, the United States treated the American Japanese harshly opposed to Japan’s treatment. Towards Japanese American civilians, who lived in America and had nothing to do with the war, they were treated unfairly by Americans. Environmentally, it was harsh for American prisoners of war as it was for the Japanese Americans when hate was evident in their captors’ eyes. Involving innocent civilians as the consequence for living in the United States while having no involvement in the war opposed to punishing those involved with the military showed a clear

The next area of focus would be the discrimination of innocent Japanese Canadians who was unjustly incriminated solely based on their race. The attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese sparked the United States to declare war on Japan and for the United States to enter WW2. As well it also led to Canada declaring war on Japan on December 8 1941. An already established racial bias towards Japanese-Canadians was transformed into full anti-Japanese sentiment by Canadian citizens, who saw Japanese-Canadians as spies for Japan. It is then that the War Measures Act gave the Canadian Cabinet absolute authority to do what is thought to be needed in order to ensure the “security, defense, peace, order and welfare of Canada”.

December 7th of 1941 America would face a horrific scene in their own homeland, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor with their Air Force not once but twice. That same day President John F. Kennedy would decide to place the Japanese Americans, living in the country at the time, in internment camps. The civilians would not have a clue what they would be put up against, now they would have to encounter various obstacles to make sure they would be able to survive. “The camps were prisons, with armed soldiers around the perimeters, barbed wire. and controls over every aspect of life”(Chang).

Japanese-Americans living on the west coast were savagely and unjustifiably uprooted from their daily lives. These Japanese-Americans were pulled from their jobs, schools, and home only to be pushed to

As a result, all Japanese were discriminated in the U.S.A. as biased perceptions were already set in their minds. They were judging the Japanese as the whole, just because the attack of a small part of the