Japanese American Internment Camps

How would you feel if you were forced into an internment camp because of what other people of the same nationality did? From 1942-1945 numerous Japanese Americans were treated brutally because Americans turned their rage for a crime, which was the bombing of Pearl Harbor perpetrated by the Japanese. This action made the Americans loathe the Japanese.

Inevitably, after the bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, the United Stated was filled with panic. Residents, along the Pacific coast of the United States feared that there would be more Japanese attacks on their homes, cities, and businesses. Multiple people were scared and did not know who could be trusted. People were falsely saying that there were many Japanese spies spying for Japan, yet only
Two months later, on February 19th, 1942, the lives of countless Japanese Americans were perilously changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This forced all the Japanese Americans, regardless of citizenship or loyalty towards Americans, to depart the West coast. This order led to evacuation, assembly, and relocation of just about 122,000 of woman, men, and children of all Japanese Ancestry on the West coast of the United States. “America's fear of an on attack the West Coast of the U.S.A caused the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.”

In addition to that, the signing of President Franklin D. Roosevelt caused some 120,000 people of Japanese descent that were living in the U.S.A were removed from their homes and were then placed in internment camps. “The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese.” In spite of that. more than two thirds of those who were interned were American citizens and half of them were only children. None of these Japanese people whatsoever had ever shown disloyalty to the
Internees were only allowed to bring with them a few possessions. They had 48 hours just to evacuate their homes. Families lost about everything, they were forced to sell shops, homes, furnishing, and even the clothes they could not carry with them. "It was really cruel and harsh. To pack and evacuate in forty-eight hours was an impossibility. Seeing mothers completely bewildered with children crying from want and peddlers taking advantage and offering prices next to robbery made me feel like murdering those responsible without the slightest compunction in my heart." Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara speaking of the Terminal Island