What Do U Know About Japanese Internment Camps During WWII?

These videos are part of my Soc197a; Intro to Asian American Studies. I took interviews of random people at the HUB at Penn State on January 31. The topic is "What is Asian American Studies" Enjoy.

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[kookiezMILK]

@am220uss

LOL, I thought that's what you were talking about what happened in Canada, not US....my baad. :P

[am220uss]

@kookiezMILK - I think you should check your source it sounds like you have been reading

about the Canadian internment of their entire Japanese population ( U.S. only interned its west coast Japanese ) The Canadians did take their posessions and sell them. Check it out and get back.

[kookiezMILK]

@am220uss

that's incorrect. The Custodian of Alien Property did in fact sell the property of the Japanese in the internment camps. They sold them for only a fraction of what the property was worth.

[EvilFingers]

@am220uss In a Nut Shell, Germany had alread invaded the US, and that Nazism was established in the United States during the 1930s, also American Born Nazis were being monitored by the US Government, during WW2.

[am220uss]

lets lay out some more facts -- The war relocation authority did not sieze the property of Japanese . It had no authority to do so. It offered to store or deliver their household goods to their new home. Many Japanese believed a rumor that they would be shipped back to japan and sold their belongings in a panic sale.

20 thousand asked to be shipped back to Japan. They did not get much for their stuff as millions were being drafted and had to sell at the same time, my father included .

[am220uss]

@EvilFingers - Germany could not invade the U.S. with only U boats, A U- boat just had enough room for its own crew. The german navy had lost most of its surface fleet before the U.S. entered the war and they had no aircraft carriers.The japanese had 11 carriers. A german invasion of the U.S. was impossible they could not even invade England. There were 9 japanese submarines operating off of our west coast at the time of the internment. There were only 6 u-boats on our East coast .

[am220uss]

@wordandcharacter - You had better reread your history , germans and italians were interned sometimes

right next to Japanese. I think one of the camps where this happened was crystal river. Order 9066 applied to all enemy aliens

[formless777]

@am220uss

Lets face facts. Being Japanese in the USA during WW2 would have been an invidious position. No doubt there were 5th column elements in the USA, definitely in the Philippines. On the other hand there were a great many US citizens of Japanese extraction who fought bravely for the USA. These situations are seldom black and white, normally they're grey... and sticky. I do think the US government should have done more to guarantee interned citizens' property though.

[am220uss]

Lets lay out some facts. Under japanese law at that time all Japanese children born to japanese parents are Japanese citizens no matter where they were born.( same is true today for U.S.) 46,000 of those interned were born in Japan and were Japanese citizens the rest were their children who got U.S. citizenship because they were born here so the children had dual citizenship . The children were taken to prevent breaking up families and

leaving them without a means of support.

[am220uss]

@formless777 There were allot more things pointing toward the fact japanese were

disloyal , magic intercepts, niihau incident , what the japanese aliens who were living in

the Philippines did when the Japanese army invaded ( almost all went over to the japanese)

and I can name many more. While in the camps 20,000 applied to be sent back to Japan

They attacked and beat those they t hought loyal to the U.S. killng several. There was no

other choice