Japanese Internment Camps Essay

Register to read the introduction… Over 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and be relocated into poorly constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers." Most of these centers were poorly constructed military barracks with no plumbing of any type of cooking facilities. In addition, many families were so hastily forced out of there homes that families did not have sufficient time to pack and prepare for proper weather conditions, and some families were forced to leave with just the clothes on their backs. Some internment camps, such as the Heart Mountain War Relocation center in northwestern Wyoming, was just a portion of land with cramped military barracks, unpartitioned toilets, cots for beds, and a barb-wired fence surrounding it all. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled that the holding of loyal American citizens unconstitutional, and by 1945 the government began releasing individuals to return to their previous lives, many of whom had no lives to return …show more content…
Not expecting such a quick surrender from Japan, the American military had up to seven more bombs in line to be sent to over to Japan over the period of two to three months until the eventual surrender of Japan. Realizing the amount of damage done already to Japan and probable amount of damage that was most likely to come, Emperor Showa, or best known as Hirohito, quickly announced Japans surrender to the allies and thus ending the conflict between the two nations. Hirohito's announcement of surrender did not only address the harm done to his country, but he also addressed how such a powerful weapon is not only a threat to Japan but to the human civilization as a