Secondly, the Japanese internment of 1942 was a giant step backwards for both Canada and Human rights and freedoms. It began the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and it lasted until Japan surrendered. Thousands of innocent Japanese-Canadians were simply arrested and put inside internment camps. ... The Japanese internment is important because it proves the point of how Canada has not always been how it is today. Just because the internment was not a good thing does not cancel it from being a defining moment, this event must never be forgotten because we need it to teach future gene...

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Following the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese Empire in December 1941, other Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. ... Based on these circumstances, Japanese Americans were no longer treated the same as other Americans.  ... Emmons and Fleet Chief Admiral Chester Nimitz who recommended the use of Japanese American soldiers. During a hearing of a military board appointed in July 1942 to study the question of allowing Japanese Americans to be soldiers, Colonel Pettigrew stated: ="The great majority of second-generation citizens of Japanese anc...

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