Have you heard about the Japanese-American internment during WW2?

Question

What were this about and were all American-Japanese affected?

Answer 1

Fear and uncertainty in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. 120,000 Japanese-Americans, all citizens or legal residents, were rounded up and "evacuated' from the states bordering the Pacific Ocean. They were moved to Relocation Centers (which bore a suspicious resemblance to POW camps, to include the armed guards) as far west as Colorado. The operation was carried out with such haste that most sold homes and businesses at huge losses (pennies on the dollar). Most were held until 1944-early 45; few were allowed back to their hometowns til after the war was over.

Answer 2

Not a proud day for the U.S. FDR, through executive order, had Japanese-Americans on the west coast confined to internment camps. The fear was that the Japanese government had a "5th column" of spies and saboteurs in the Japanese-American community. Reagan formally apologized to this population segment while he was President.

We did not do the same thing to German-Americans and Italian-Americans so the charge that the order was racially biased seems to be accurate.

Answer 3

Executive Order 9066 authorized by FDR and upheld by the Supreme court in 1944 ordered the removal of all Japanese-Americans from the west coast of America into internment camps in remote positions of interior of US

Answer 4

I have heard of it and it is my understanding that all Japanese-Americans were interned. The US government saw them as a potential threat from within.

Answer 5

Because of fear of sabotage, many people were put into camps. Many Americans were attacking anyone of Asian descent, ignorant of any difference. The unfortunate fact is many of these who were interred were AMERICANS who's only crime was being of Japanese descent. As these people were in camps, they lost their jobs, witch lead to the loss of their home & buisnesses.

Answer 6

America also intern German and Italian Americans

Answer 7

Japanese Internment Camps


There were ten internment Camps in total; they consisted of: three road camps, two prisoner of war camps(POW), and five self supporting camps scattered throughout Canada during the second World War. Prior to World War II, 22,096 Japanese Canadians lived in British Colombia; three quarters of them were naturalized or native born Canadians.

Taken from:(www.lib.washington)
This notice was distributed throughout British Columbia. If any Japanese were found in the prohibited areas listed, they would be incarcerated.


Many historians believe internments camps came about because of racist attitudes Canadians held towards Japanese Canadian's-many of whom lived in BC. Once the bombing on Pearl Harbour happened racism came to a head. British Columbians started to blame all their troubles and problems on the Japanese. Japanese people were blamed for everything from a bad crop to a flat tire. The scared people of BC cried out, wanting the BC Government to deal with the problem as they saw it-Japanese Canadians. The people of British Columbia wanted to feel safe in their homes again and they wanted Prime Minister Mackenzie King to rid Canada of people of Japanese orign. They were causing a threat to Canada (or so it was believed by the public.) Mackenzie King wanted the votes from B.C. so he was more than happy to do what they asked. Mackenzie's first order of business was to incarcerate all Japanese males between the ages 14 and 45. They were ordered to move more than 160 km inland. This was to "safe guard" the pacific coast from Japanese spies. The Canadian government took away all of the Japanese fishing fleets, in order to protect Canada.




Over a nine month period 22,000 people were taken from their homes and scattered throughout BC. By October 1942, the Canadian government had set up 8 internment camps in interior BC. They were in Kaslo, New Denver, Tashme, Roseberry, Slocan City, Lemon Creek, Sandon, and Greenwood. Tashme was named after the 3 leading BC's security commisioners; TAlor, SHirras, and MEad.



The war caused a large labour shortage for farmers, especially sugar beet farmers. The Security Commission Council organized sugar beet projects to combat the labour shortage. This gave the Japanese males a choice. The choice was to work in road camps as slaves or go to the beet camps and be with their families. Working in the beet camps was the choice taken by the majority of Japanese married men.



Japanese Canadians were being punished for a crime they didn't commit. Canada's only defence for it's actions was that Japanese people were not white and they "could" be Japanese spies. Innocent Japanese Canadians were stripped of their rights, issued special clothing, humiliated, thrown behind barb wire fences, and were forced to do manual labour.

Living in interment camps was a hard life to live. Many families were forced to live in cramped quarters with ten other families sharing one stove. Some camps such as Slocan city; didn't have the resourses to house the huge amounts of people coming into the camps. Many Japanese were placed in tents until there were houses available. One would think that moving from a tent to a house would be a step up, but this was not true. Most houses consisted of panal board with no insulation, rickety walls and maybe a stove. During the harsh cold winters many Japanese put lanterns under their beds to try and keep warm.

Answer 8

Yes, but have you heard of Italian-American internment during WWII?

Answer 9

at the current time in history yes we locked all of them up, couldn't trust not one, just like blacks ...they all look alike!