On December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy- the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” . The bombing of Pearl Harbor launched America full-scale into WWII, and created a developing distrust among non-Japanese Americans, described as “waves of anti-Japanese sentiment swept the nation” . The main reason for distrust is from fear that Japanese citizens will turn on the United States and aid their country of origin, our enemy Japan. Lt. General John DeWitt says, “A Jap is a Jap! There is no way to determine their loyalty… They all look the same” . Furthermore, Lippmann, the country’s most influential journalist, says, “Nobody’s constitutional rights include the right to reside and do business on a battlefield” .
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Munson’s report found that “There will be no armed uprising of Japanese” in the United States. “For the most part,” the report says, “the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs” . In contrast, “the government-and popular sentiment- understood that German Americans were not necessarily Nazi sympathizers, and could distinguish Italian Americans from Mussolini’s Fascist regime, but they had a more difficult time separating Japanese Americans from Imperial Japan”
Munson’s report found that “There will be no armed uprising of Japanese” in the United States. “For the most part,” the report says, “the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs” . In contrast, “the government-and popular sentiment- understood that German Americans were not necessarily Nazi sympathizers, and could distinguish Italian Americans from Mussolini’s Fascist regime, but they had a more difficult time separating Japanese Americans from Imperial Japan”