What sort of treatment did Japanese-americans receive from the government during WW2?

Answer 1

After the attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans, even if they had been native to the country for generations, were reft of all they had and herded into interment camps. They lsot their rights, civil liberties, their homes, jobs, and freedom.
Take a look at the sites below...its an interesting period in our history, and one largely overlooked.

Answer 2

Free room and board for the duration of the war. Not in light of the fact that they saw Hirohito as a god (Sun God) I think this action was appropriate. That is not to say that some patriotic Americans didn't get the short end of the stick, better safe than sorry. I notice no one ever mentions all the Germans that got put in concentration camp on the eastern sea board. PS It was acceptable here too.
Also: The term "Concentration Camp" had a unfair connotation because it is what Hitler's death camps were call. One can condemn "Extermination Camp" while being in favor of "Concentration Camp".

Answer 3

Lets face it our government treated a lot of people horrible over the years.American Indians were slaughtered beaten
robbed of there land and made to live in small pieces of land the government didn't want.American Indians to this day are still not allowed to drink whiskey now isn't that funny.Is our government afraid that the Indians might get a war party to gether and kill some white people. The American Japanese were treated badly.They were all rounded up and put in camps.It was cold and not enough food to go around.If your parents were from Japan but you were born in the USA you got to work inside the camps so you were treated a little better then your parents.There were a lot of spy from Japan that lived here so they just took everybody.The worse part was when they let them go,they just opened the gates and said your free to go. Go where they had nowhere to go and no money and no food they were on their own to start over again.It wasn't until 50 years later the government made good on their promise to help them.

Answer 4

Well, the government put the Japenese in internment camps, like how the Germans put the Jewish peolple in concentration camps. There were many camps in a region in California known as Manzanar. There was school, church, and other things to do at Manzanar. It was not a concentrarion camp. Many of the Japenese folk resented being at Manzanar because some were born in America and were citizens. There were reportings of shootings and deaths at Manzanar, but no racial discrimination, although the Americans only put the Japenese in internment camps, and not the Germans or the Italians. There are many books and autobiographies on the subject. Overall, they were being discriminated against because they were being put in Manzanar.

Answer 5

easily it replaced into 70% racial. the U. S. of 1940 replaced into an extremely 'racist' place. Asians, Africans have been considered not as sturdy as Europeans and have been and have been dealt with as unequals. then you definitely've those unequal people under you attack your u . s . at Pearl Harbor...nicely you are able to think of the same old public racial reaction. the different 30% replaced into because of the fact of time and numbers. the U. S. did not have that many jap people residing in the U. S. and maximum of those had arrived from Japan purely those days in the final 20-40 years. whilst the U. S. had thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of German people residing in the U. S. as between the biggest ethnic communities and maximum of those have been right here for a hundred years. The Germans have been considered a secure area of the american 'melting pot' the hot jap weren't.

Answer 6

while it is true that they were treated badly by our government, they were not tortured or there lives were not threatened,. it was a war where our very survival was at stake, and way before political correctness reared it's ugly head. i really hate what happened to these loyal, hard working Americans but it was a world war, and they wanted to cover all of the base's. i am afraid that if a world war happened now, that we would be more concerned about offending a certain ethnic group, and less concerned about winning a war. they truly were America's greatest generation.

Answer 7

According to many accounts, awful. They had internment camps where they treated the Japanese like vermin--OK, maybe a little better. A YMCA was set up in one in Utah, and someone slipped a micro camera in to see what it was like. It really wasn't that humane. It was against the U.S. Constitution and was a flaw in FDR's presidency--maybe one of the only, but it definitely was a flaw.

Answer 8

The U.S. government was very racist. They forced all Japanese- Americans to live in camps in the U.S.- called Internment Camps. They had to leave all that they know and owned to live there. They were made right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, because US citizens were racist against Japanease, they thought that the Japanese- Americans would bomb the US cities.

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Answer 9

They were moved to camps and treated badly. they were also discriminated against.

Answer 10

we put them in internment camps... its a little known fact from history