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    The Japanese history tells us the story of the Japanese sharing many common feelings and hardships with thousands of other immigrants who came to Hawai’i. Starting with the first wave‚ the Gannen Mono‚ in 1868‚ the legacies and values passed on from generation and carried on today. The Japanese had to leave their homes in Japan to make a better life for themselves and their families. Through their struggles‚ of course‚ the Japanese immigrants were hesitant of stepping foot onto a foreign land to

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    would’ve taken to survive in a Japanese internment camp? It would take incredible work and strength. The utmost important factor would be teamwork. Trying to solve a problem as a group is the best way to respond to conflict. First‚ has your teacher told you that teamwork makes the dream work? It truly does; there is more power in a group than in an individual. Imagine you are a Japanese-American in the 1940’s. Your home has just been seized and you are moving to an internment camp. The conditions are

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    nearly 3 Million left after the war… Japanese had it easier their camps were less brutal than the Jewish Concentration camps. Also‚ Jewish Concentration camps were more guarded and higher standardized than the Japanese Internment camps.. Jews were forced to do jobs or they had punishment‚ Japanese weren’t forced to work they could volunteer. Jewish concentration camps and Japanese Internment camps weren’t the same because Jewish camps were more Brutal than Japanese‚ Jews lives weren’t cared about in

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    America during World War II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor over two years after the war started‚ Roosevelt had a difficult and important decision to make. Fears and anxieties broke out among the U.S. people that the Japanese living in the United States would sabotage America and turn against them in the war. A couple of months after the U.S. started fighting in the war‚ Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which required all people of Japanese descent to abandon their homes and move

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    A redundant act of tyranny was breached upon the rights Japanese Americans based upon Executive Order 9066. This act caused the relocation of about 110‚000 people with Japanese ancestry. Approximately 60% of the people that were relocated were U.S citizens with Japanese ancestry. The people that were interned would be told that they were in these camps for their own protection. Then again we must keep in mind that this action occurred because the United States felt like there was spies among us.

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    Pearl Harbor‚ United States started to create anti-Japanese propaganda‚ and a lot of it had to do with racism. Many posters‚ movies‚ and songs encouraged Americans to have hatred toward Japanese. Americans had so much hatred toward Japanese that they looked at them to be monsters. Americans came up with many hatred nicknames‚ such as; nip‚ yellow‚ Jap. Japanese American leaders and anyone who were had anything to do with Japan were arrested. Japanese had a mandatory curfew‚ in which they had to carry

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    Japanese Internment: racist or not? The “Japanese Internment” was an incident that occurred in World War II. The internment was to place all Japanese citizens into holding camps‚ wither American citizen or not. Some argue that the internment was solely based on racism‚ because the US were at war with Japan. In February 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066‚ which declared that the U.S. armed forces could designate military areas in which certain people had to be expelled

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    110‚000 Japanese American settlers on mainly the West Coast. With constant demeaning and terrorizing that occurred within America against the Japanese settlers‚ one incident put the American’s anger over the top‚ the Niihau Incident . In this incident‚ a Japanese Plane was shot down‚ and three local Japanese Americans saved its pilot. An act like this is what spurred even more anti-Japanese attitude within America‚ and ultimately gave America a reason to begin interning Japanese Americans. Americans

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    DBQ 4: Supporting Racial Internment During World War II 10/28/2013 Many American citizens today do not know that during World War II‚ the Fascist Party in Germany were not the only ones to have concentration camps with a specific race occupying them. Between the end of 1941 till the end of the war‚ the United States evacuated and imprisoned around 127‚000 people of Japanese ancestry. During this internment period‚ a supreme court case arose against Fred Korematsu where he was found

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    were Japanese-Americans Intermed? World War II was a tragic international incident. Among those involved included the red‚ white‚ and blue eagle herself‚ America. During the events of World War II‚ Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States. The U.S.’s retorted back with two atomic bombs and a plan to exclude people‚ including citizens‚ of Japanese ancestry in the States. The country that boasts freedom and is in some eyes‚ the embodiment of freedom‚ decided to segregate Japanese-Americans

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