Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the American camps as "concentration camps," at the time.The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast of the United States were all interned, while in Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the territory's population, 1,200 to 1,800 Japanese Americans were interned.Of those interned, 62% were American citizens.President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps.In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders,[8] while noting that the provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings.The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau's role was denied for decades but was finally proven in 2007.In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.Almost 120,000 Japanese Americans and resident Japanese aliens would eventually be removed from their homes in California, the western halves of Oregon and Washington and southern Arizona as part of the single largest forced relocation in U.S. history.Most of these camps/residences, gardens, and stock areas were placed on Native American reservations, for which the Native Americans were formally compensated. The Native American councils disputed the amounts negotiated in absentia by US government authorities and later sued finding relief and additional compensation for some items of dispute."Under the 2001 budget of the United States, it was also decreed that the ten sites on which the detainee camps were set up are to be preserved as historical landmarks: "places like Manzanar, Tule Lake, Heart Mountain, Topaz, Amache, Jerome, and Rohwer will forever stand as reminders that this nation failed in its most sacred duty to protect its citizens against prejudice, greed, and political expediency".Japanese American internment" DOJ Internment CampsDuring World War II, over 7,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese from Latin America were held in internment camps run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, part of the Department of Justice. In this period, Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and transported to American internment camps run by the U.S. Justice Department.These Latin American internees were eventually, through the efforts of civil rights attorney Wayne M. Collins,offered "parole" relocation to the labor-starved farming community in Seabrook, New Jersey.Many became naturalized American citizens or Japanese Americans after the war.There were twenty-seven U.S. Department of Justice Camps, eight of which (in Texas, Idaho, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Montana) held Japanese Americans. The camps were guarded by Border Patrol agents rather than military police and were intended for non-citizens including Buddhist ministers, Japanese language instructors, newspaper workers, and other community leaders.In addition 2,264 persons of Japanese ancestry[48] taken from 12 Latin American countries by the U.S. State and Justice Departments were held at the Department of Justice Camps.Approximately two-thirds of these persons were Japanese Peruvians(Wikipedia)
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Japanese Internment during WW IIby retafmil3,989 views
Invaluable piece of history..."they are merely dislocated people"...The narration tries to make it seem like this is all ok...chilling. I like how it's stated that they're not prisoners, and yet they are guarded by armed soldiers. More people need to learn about this. Thank you for posting.
featheredhorse 3 months ago
@featheredhorse Today looking backward at the entire picture we can suddenly discover that the german decision to "relocate" to the east the jewish populations and individuals was officialy just what the democraties did too exactly starting 1940 and 1941.This acceptable safety measure allowed the Wansee Conference decision makers to cover up the extermination plan behind the "we do the same like all the other nations"screen.Of cause "nobody will be harmed", they will just live somewhere else..
NickVenture1 3 months ago 3
It shows that in those days a citizenship doesn't mean full trust by the government towards some ethnic groups in a crisis situation. These japanese apparently were distrusted. More than german americans, or italians. Both nations at war with the USA at the same period when the decision to relocate these asian cictizens and alien residents was decided. But these europeans were not massivly relocated as far as I know. I read that buddhist clergy was also put into safety.
NickVenture1 11 months ago
If the President says "It's Ok" than why to discuss the orders?
NickVenture1 1 year ago