The accused Japanese were average American citizens; their only fault was their ancestry, being Japanese. ... Fear was also present during the Japanese American Internment as well. ... They felt that the Japanese living in America were still loyal to Japan. ... Apparently this was all Japanese Americans. ... The Japanese being very much American and patriotic were rounded up with out much protest. ...

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The innocent Japanese Americans were wrongly placed into these camps and the actions taken by the United States government put heavy burdens on the Japanese Americans for years to come. The United States had a Japanese American population of 126,947 by 1940 (Broom 8). ... After the attacks by the Japanese, the government had viewed the Japanese Americans as a threat to the nation's security. ... There was racism still directed towards Japanese by American racists. ... The problem was that there were fewer Japanese Americans in the east and many Japanese Americans wanted to live in the are...

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Racism in America was also somewhat prominent. ... Americans were depicted in a similar manner by the Japanese cartoonists. ... One of the more famous examples of racism was the internment of Japanese Americans. ... The Japanese-Americans were euphemistically called "evacuees," but in reality they were prisoners in relocation camps. ... Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 citing that the relocation of Japanese-Americans was to protect against espionage and sabotage. ...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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. ...

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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...

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