Why Is Japanese Internment Wrong

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The Internment of innocent Japanese-Americans in the United States is completely wrong but I wouldn’t blame America for the precautions they placed against any Japanese person young or old. For what Japan did to The United Stated in World War 2 in 1942 through 1946, innocent people of their kind that lived here had to pay the price of the native lands inappropriate actions. In these pages you will learn: why the Japanese people were being captured from the government stand point and what happened to their families and belongings, what happened to the people in the camps and what life was like in them and what was going to happen to the people, and finally Americas methods of punishments and how an end came to these camps. To start the definition of internment is the state of being …show more content…
This caused America to enter the war because at the time the U.S. was not participating Japan was later accused of committing a war crime in the Tokyo Trials. Toward the end of World War 2 America was still upset over this occurrence, therefore their response to this attack was “Executive Order 9066”. Executive Order 9066 was placed “Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area” (www.history.com). All of this meant that the entire Japanese population would be round up into Nazi like concentration camps for the Jews now for “Japs” an insulting, disgusting word to call someone who is Japanese. In the camps people were just waiting, waiting for a sign or hope, some people though they were going to be executed. “People in camps seemed like animals when they were hanging on the fences” (Conrat, Pg.

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