Essay On Japanese American Internment Camps

The conditions inside the United States internment camps were extremely overcrowded and provided very poor living conditions. According to the reports published by the War Relocation Authority, the administering agency in 1943, Japanese Americans were housed in tar paper covered barracks with guard towers and barbed wire fences for boundary. Moreover, not only were these boundaries just boundaries. They were guarded by military police with rifles, and numerous Japanese Americans in these internment camps were killed by the military guards for not following the orders or because they resisted the officers.
Moreover, these internment camps were built in simple frame construction without a proper water facility or in other words plumbing, nor cooking facilities and the only things the government provided for a barrack were cots,
Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per internee and served by fellow internees in an extremely crowded mess hall filled with 250 to 300 people. In many accounts of the camps, Japanese Americans mentioned their meals with “dust storms”. The dust storms blew into their food too, which were often only a tin cup and a bowl with milk, and covered them with dust. However they were forced to drink them because that was all they had.
Though it seems like an contradictory action by the United States, education was provided by the War Relocation Authority (an agency that relocated and interned enemy aliens during World War 2) for all school age residents at the internment camps. However the courses were already planned and the government hired teachers who assisted the state departments of education. The extra vocational training that was provided at the relocation center for communication with the adults, were only for the evacuees who were able to play a more effective role in agriculture or industry outside the centers (Brown and