Life for the Japanese Americans became very hard following Executive Order No. 9066. Once the war ended, the Japanese returned to their homes and faced housing, employment, and racial discriminations. Overnight, the life of the Japanese Americans changed significantly when over one hundred and ten thousand people had to leave their homes and move to detention camps. The reasoning behind them having to go to detention camps was because of racial prejudice and war hysteria. After living in such harsh conditions during the war, Japanese Americans were also treated very cruelly after their arrival back to the west coast. Some even had to leave and find some hostels set up in pre-war institutions when they could not find any housing. Many
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“Though white racism limited their job opportunities, many Japanese and Japanese-Americans found relative success as entrepreneurs and business owners, particularly as farmers and hotel owners and managers” (Speidel). Since many industrial jobs were given to white male veterans, a small but wide variety of jobs then became available to the Japanese Americans. Many of them had to adapt to the new jobs that became open to them, because they might not have had much or any experience when it came to that type of job throughout their lifetime. Another way that job opportunities went up was that jobs that involved domestic labor became very popular. The jobs that involved domestic labor or service work were often hired by other Japanese Americans that had also returned. Even if Japanese Americans had farms or businesses before having to be moved to a camp, their property were often found to be in shambles once they arrived back home. At times, finding work became so important that people would use aliases to improve their chances of becoming hired. It is hard for anyone to get off their feet and live in a house if there are only a select number of open jobs that are available to
“Though white racism limited their job opportunities, many Japanese and Japanese-Americans found relative success as entrepreneurs and business owners, particularly as farmers and hotel owners and managers” (Speidel). Since many industrial jobs were given to white male veterans, a small but wide variety of jobs then became available to the Japanese Americans. Many of them had to adapt to the new jobs that became open to them, because they might not have had much or any experience when it came to that type of job throughout their lifetime. Another way that job opportunities went up was that jobs that involved domestic labor became very popular. The jobs that involved domestic labor or service work were often hired by other Japanese Americans that had also returned. Even if Japanese Americans had farms or businesses before having to be moved to a camp, their property were often found to be in shambles once they arrived back home. At times, finding work became so important that people would use aliases to improve their chances of becoming hired. It is hard for anyone to get off their feet and live in a house if there are only a select number of open jobs that are available to