Why did U.S create Japenese Internement Camps?

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*Japanese Internment Camps*

Answer 1

Fear. Pearl harbor caught America by surprise, we would have been hard pressed to put up more than token resistance if Japan had invaded Hawaii or America itself since the army was in shambles since the end of WW1 when the anti-military crowd went to work.

Many people were afraid that some of the Japanese in America were spies or sabateurs; a similar paranoia existed in WW1 about German immigrants. The end result was Japanese immigrants, and even native born Americans of Japanese descent, were sent to internment camps.

As one guy pointed out earlier t was also partially, though in truth not quite, motivated by a need to protect the Japanese against mob violence, although this was probably just the justification used to pull it off.

German American were herded into internment just like the Japanese, only most of the German that went there were deported after the war, so their story is as well known. It had nothing to with race, it was purely about justifiable fear. In 1941 America was in no way capable of defending itself, so they idea of homegrown sabateurs was real and important to consider.

not the best source, but it seems trustworthy.
http://www.foitimes.com/

Answer 2

The Americans were at war with the Japanese during the second world war (1939 to1945) so the camps were set up
to maintain security with in America. The U.S. government
believed some Japanese -Americans living in the U.S. may turn against the U.S. in support of the Japanese.

Answer 3

Fear.

The US, since before the war, was fearing sabotage from Japanese immigrants. The attack on Pearl Harbor was, in some ways, as successful as it was because the US planes were bunched together in the open, the better to make sure no saboteurs could get to them.

We also were a little afraid of Japanese being able to spy on our war plans and efforts.

We interned them in order to keep an eye on them and keep them from being able to do anything that would harm us.

In retrospect, it was wrong and not the most intelligent approach, but that's what happened.

Answer 4

The reason for the United States' government to make the camps was out of fear of operations that the Japanese or Japanese-Americans might do to slow down and/or stop the American war effort. Like the saying goes.. "Better safe then sorry."

Answer 5

Beacause the US was afraid that the Japanese Americans would ot show patritism to the US and would give information from the US to the Japanese government so that Japanese would win the war along with Germany

Answer 6

When the japanese attacked pearl harbor, we went to war with them. The usa knew that there were over 130,000 japanese on that island. The usa also feared that the japanese would attack san francisco/california, so they slapped the poor japanese citizens in internment camps.

I'm sure its in wikipedia somewhere ;)
Watch the movie "tora tora tora"

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Answer 7

To protect the Japanese from haters, such as we have seen in our own time when people shot and killed Sikhs because they wear turbans and resemble Muslims; and to keep an accounting of all Japanese, in the event some of them are noodnicks (terrorists, saboteurs, etc.)

Answer 8

just as what happens with people of middle eastern descent nowadays, the government thought that japanese americans would become an internal threat to our country after pearl harbor.

Answer 9

in world war 2 im presuming, it was so that japanese sabotuers (people who sabotage things) could not hamper the warr effort, plus we were ticked at the Japanese