Japanese internment is the unfair relocation of thousands of Japanese individuals, of whom more than 62% were legally bound American citizens. ... And another argument is that the Japanese Americans received unfair treatment as result of the camps. ... This is why what America did was very unprofessional and very prejudice against every Japanese American or immigrant. ... So if a Japanese American wants to fight and serve this country to prove his patriotism or Americanism, then I don't see why not. ... The American Japanese did nothing, I just think we were a little too paranoid. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Japanese Internment Camps What were they? ... Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. ... In April 1942, internment camps were set up across the United States of America. ... At the end of World War II, Japanese Americans faced rebuilding their lives. The U.S. government had forced them away from their homes and intro crowded living areas and scarred many Japanese-Americans. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Native Americans and Japanese Americans were both greatly affected by wartime beliefs of the 1940s. ... The first person is Jeanne Wakatsuki, a second generation Japanese American. ... Propaganda against the Japanese flooded American media. ... The midpoint of the war was the lowest time for Japanese Americans. ... Not only did white America not want any part of Japanese Americans, many Japanese Americans did not forgive the U.S. for its actions against them during the war. ...

• Word Count: 3609
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• Grade Level: High School

While stuck in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans did the best they could to retain an active lifestyle and pass the time. While locked up in these camps Japanese Americans, 70% of whom were American citizens, were subject to strict rules and regulations, harsh living conditions, and limited civil liberties. ... In some cases the Japanese Americans were prohibited from being within ten feet of the fence. ... Also evacuees were requested to voluntarily hand in Japanese books, pamphlets, literature, and other records deemed suspicious by Americans. ... Japa...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It all started to get worse for the Japanese Americans when the Japanese ambushed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This act of aggression aggravated the already existent discrimination against the Japanese immigrants in America. ... Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans were already facing a large amount of discrimination. ... Most of the Japanese immigrants and their offspring lived in small, rural farming communities in farming communities in California (93,000 of the total Japanese-American population). ... The internment camps were an experience that most of the Japane...

• Word Count: 1508
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• Grade Level: High School

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team Imagine this: You are a Japanese American living in the United States. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Americans faced quite harsh racism. ... This act by the American government shows that they did not trust the Japanese. ... These Japanese Americans were despised so much that Americans often destroyed their property. ... On the other hand, the addition of the Japanese Americans could have given U.S. the disadvantage and Japan the advantage. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pearl Harbor was one of the most vicious attacks on American soil. ... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. And later America decided to use atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. ... This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. ... The conditions were so harsh that some Japanese Americans died. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This book is about the Japanese internment camps that were set up in America during World War II, and how it affected this particular family. ... After the Japanese were released from these camps and allowed to return to their homes, America still held a fear and hatred towards these people. ... These American camps were not death camps, but they made Japanese Americans live in harsh living conditions because America was afraid of these people. ... Most of the Japanese who were put into these camps, were Japanese-Americans, and had never been to Japan, but knew about it from what they had hear...

• Word Count: 921
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• Grade Level: High School

Where is my America? ... History class, and recall prior knowledge of the Japanese-American internment camps, my fears for my family and myself grow, and I must raise certain questions with my society. ... More recently, is the issue of Japanese internment camps after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Government to order over 100,000 Japanese-Americans to move to the West Coast, to live in barracks complexes called internment camps. ... I have no resent for my American upbringing, government or culture. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

FDR points fingers full of fear at the Japanese Americans in the US. ... There were only signs of discrimination all throughout the United States towards Japanese Americans. ... " which shows Japanese Americans picking up a bar of TNT waiting for Japan to signal to fire it off in the United States. ... A good 62 percent were Japanese Americans who were likely born there. ... Executive Order 9066 violates the Japanese American's civil rights. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many of these people were born in the United States and had never stepped foot outside of America or visited Japan. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. ... DeWitt commenced with random raids of Japanese homes and seized guns, radios, and cameras from Japanese-American homes. ... Over 25,000 Japanese-Americans fought in the war and many of them lost their lives (Conrat 23). The Japanese-Americans of that time were intertwined within the American fabric. ...

• Word Count: 1275
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cesar Chavez helped Mexican American migrant farm workers get the fair wages from their employer, Fred Korematsu accuse the government for the right of Japanese Americans and Jackie Robinson helped African American right in the sport field. ... Fred Korematsu (1919.1.30 – 2005.5.30) was a Japanese American born in California. ... American government decided to lock up all the Japanese American to internment camp to prevent spy. All the Japanese American stay in internment camp for three years. ... But he didn't stop fighting for the right of Japanese American. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the true story of a Japanese-American family's detention in California's Manzanar internment camp during World War II. Jeanne was seven when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and created the calamity that forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to go away from their homes. ... She also tells what she took away from Manzanar after it was closed "a feeling of shame and determination to be accepted as an American. ... Pearl Harbor bombed- Japanese A. ... Woody in Japan (aunt Toyo, sugar) C. ...

• Word Count: 422
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• Grade Level: High School

This extraordinary novel tells about a Japanese family that struggles to remain a family while living in an internment camp. ... In my opinion, "Farewell to Manzanar" is about Japanese-Americans during World War II. ... The language is not difficult at all, but you might want to read the foreword before you read the book, just to get the Japanese terminologies. I recommend this book to anyone who has some idea of what went on in America during World War II. ...

• Word Count: 201
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• Grade Level: High School

The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. ... Jeanne's mother ("Mama") moves her remaining children to Terminal Island, where they live among other Japanese Americans for the first time. ... Soon, the government moves the Japanese Americans to Boyle Heights, a ghetto in Los Angeles. ... The family is soon sent to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp inland. ... She also watches a woman who powders her face white in the traditional Japanese style. ...

• Word Count: 661
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• Grade Level: High School

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is one of a daughter of first-generation Japanese immigrants in United States. ... Jeanne tries her best to associate with her fellow Japanese as well as with American people while Melba fights for their rights as they both experiencing discrimination, racism and different problems with their families. ... This challenge began in Jeanne's life when Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Therefore, Japanese-Americans considered as a "dangerous enemy aliens". ... " (157) Jeanne tried to become an American as possible. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The holocaust was very similar to the Rawanda Genocide, the Japanese Internment Camps, the treatment of women in the Taliban, and the African Slave Trade even though they took place at different times and places. ... Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. The thing I will remember most of all in this genocide is how Japanese-Americans were forced to carry on their lives under such harsh and terrible conditions. ...

• Word Count: 548
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• Grade Level: High School

The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to move Japanese Americans away from the public in the name of national security. ... Rosie is a model who is easier to look at by society than the face of a dirty and malnourished Japanese American woman at the Poston Camp. ... And frankly, to even suggest that the working women had it bad after the war because they didn't have to weld anymore compared to the after affects of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans is a joke. ... Chapter 2: Native America...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School