How were the japanese treated in the internment camps after pearl harbour??

Answer 1

Crappily. They were separated from their families and treated as lower, and I've heard stories that many of them were beaten. The food was terrible, and Japanese-Canadians were even treated badly. Even Japanese people who had been born in Canada were treated as lower. Then, families who had managed to stay together were moved to Alberta from their homes, and forced to live on farms and work, never knowing when they would see their families again.

Answer 2

To get real good information on this, you need to visit a good library and read one of the many books written by survivors of those internment camps.

They were NOT starved or gassed or abused like the Jews in German camps. They received food and water, and had warm, dry places to live and sleep.

But, it was certainly a thing of horror to be taken from their homes and in many cases lose all they had worked for, and stuffed behind barbed wire like criminals.

On the other side, many of the survivors admitted that in the heat of the war, many would have been killed by mob action if they had not been interned.

I agree. After 9/11, many loyal citizens of Middle East descent were terrorized and hounded and threatened, Compare a loss of only 3,000 people on 9/11 to the hundreds of thousands killed by the Japanese in WWII.

Answer 3

Far better than our Marines were treated on the Bataan Death March and subsequent imprisonment In Japan where they were beaten, tortured, and used as slave labor.

I was fortunate enough to have a high school math teacher who survived this evil and who took several days during the school year to explain the absolute horror of the experience. This was way before flaming liberals took over our classrooms and children still respected their elders.

Try placing things into perspective and in the context of the times. Our very future as a nation was at stake.

Answer 4

Not very well. They were given inadequate housing (tar paper shacks for sub-zero weather conditions) their belongings were confiscated so they had to make do with whatever they could get, which wasn't very much, and they were not allowed to form groups and committees that could have worked for their betterment. Any gathering of more than a few people was regarded as possibly subversive in nature, so was quickly broken up.
It was a strange way to treat native born Americans!

Answer 5

Worse than german prisoners of war. While the interned Japanese were confined to prison like facilities, German POWs were allowed to roam freely in certain US cities. Camp Blanding outside Jacksonville, FL, is one example. Even though they were prisoners, they were allowed to go into town for shopping or recreation whenever they wanted except during certain hours at night when they were confined to their barracks. One reason postulated for this is that Germans looked more like Americans--i.e. same light skin color, same facial features so the Japanese were seen as different. In my opinion it was all wrong. But, hey who am I, just someone who thinks those who fought against us should be treated worse than those who fought for US.

Answer 6

Minimal facilities, as prisoners of war.
US had no POW camps, per se.
I never heard of any mistreatment, abuse, etc. but the abuse was already done, when they lost business, homes, and belongings.

Some compensation was bestowed, only in recent years, but the damage was done.

I lived during that time.

Answer 7

they did no longer exist before Pearl Harbor. No, they weren't going to be killed in the event that they did no longer "carry on with orders." i thought you suggested you be responsive to they weren't taken care of like the Nazis taken care of the Jews? i do no longer think every person tried to flee however many youthful adult adult males joined the provider and have been honored for his or her valor.

Answer 8

Remember folks, that was a democratic president who implemented this.