Toggle search
Search
Toggle menu
notifications
Toggle personal menu
Editing
Category:Internment Camps
Category page
Views
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
associated-pages
Category
Discussion
More actions
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
The Japanese Internment Camps were a dark period in American history during World War II, where the United States government forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 125,000 people of Japanese descent. Most of these individuals lived on the Pacific Coast and were sent to concentration camps in the western interior of the country. Of those incarcerated, approximately two-thirds were United States citizens. This action was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via an executive order shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Of the 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of Pearl Harbor, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. Around 80,000 of them were Nisei and Sansei, while the rest were Issei immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for US citizenship under US law. President Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, which allowed regional military commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded." Although the order did not mention Japanese Americans, this authority was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were required to leave Alaska and the military exclusion zones from all of California and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, with the exception of those inmates who were being held in government camps. The Japanese Internment Camps are widely considered a violation of human rights and a dark period in American history. The US government eventually acknowledged and apologized for the internment, and in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which provided reparations to Japanese Americans who were incarcerated. The act also formally apologized on behalf of the US government and acknowledged the "fundamental injustice" of the internment. The legacy of the internment continues to be felt by many Japanese Americans and remains an important topic in American history. [[Category: Culture]] [[Category: Nikkei]]
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to J-Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
J-Wiki:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)