Internments

fear. A year later, February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 which brought out the internment camps for Japanese Americans. In 1944, Korematsu spoke up for his rights as a Japanese- American citizen and he fought against the government. Fred Korematsu took a stand against the United States government for his rights by resisting arrest and placement into internment camps, and these actions resulted in a huge court case where he was accused guilty, though Korematsu…

17 years after the Immigration Act of 1924– when Japanese fighter planes attacked American Naval bases in Honolulu, Hawaii (History.com Staff). Out of guilt of association, 110,000 Japanese-Americans, regardless of their citizenship were sent to internment camps under president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive order 9066. Aggravated by the war, Anti-Japanese movements reached its highest point during this period, with citizens fueling their misdirected hatred and suspicion onto American…

Some might say that history might be repeating itself with everything that is going on. There are many things going on in this world with the Syrian refugees that can be compared to what happened in the Holocaust and the Japanese being put in the internment camps. The things that are happening in syria right now and the refugees wanting to leave is similar to what happened with the Jews in Germany. The Holocaust was a very difficult time for the jews. Adolf Hitler was…

Pearl Harbor and Japan with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. All the Japanese male citizens and Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii were sent to “the Honouliuli internment camp.” The prisoners there named the prison camp “jigokudani” or “Hell’s Valley.” (https://www. npr.org/sections/Codeswitch/2015/03/16/393284680/in-hawaii -a-w-wii-int ernment-camp-named-national-monument.) The name relates to the “unjust…

of fear and paranoia in general after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Jewish people were thrown into camps out of hatred Hitler and the Nazi’s had for them. Although both internment camps and concentration camps were wrong only the Japanese got the rightful apology they deserved. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not the same thing because they both took place for two completely different reasons, the prisoners reactions to being thrown into camps were different, and…

Japanese Americans during World War II is constantly overlooked though. Around one hundred twenty thousand Japanese American people were forced into internment camps based solely on whether they or their parents had been born in Japan. Although the United States was in a national emergency, Japanese Americans should not have been forced into internment because they were American citizens and should have been protected by…

When the Emperor was Divine The internment of thousands of Japanese families and people in general was a symbol of not only the oppression of a mass of people but also of the growing trend throughout the ages of the same type of war-time oppression. Throughout history, people have been being taken forcibly from their homes and placed in precarious and quite uncomfortable situations just for the sake of people’s “safety”. Although, it was typically only in times of war, it still had an impact…

all inland and kept them in a secure and confined space where they could be supervised as tension due to the war was high. How could they 100% trust an unknown alien’s promises of loyalty just because they said they were? In the article, Japanese Internment: Why It Was a Good Idea--And the Lessons It Offers Today it says that, “The Japanese government established ‘an extensive espionage network within the United States’ believed to include hundreds of agents.” Japan had hundreds of people…

predominantly non-Japanese neighborhood, until the war happened and they were forced to relocate due to the escalating tensions concerning Japanese Orientals and White Americans. At the time, Japanese-Americans, like Houston, were forced to live in internment camps due to the American government taking precautions. The text…

Heit: Earth and Sky, etc. However, the exhibition Minidoka: Artist as a Witness caught my attention in particular. It was based around japanese-american artists who live through World War II in internment camps after the executive order 9066 was passed. The artists depicted mainly scenes of the internment camps through the eyes of those trapped on the inside. I found a painting by Kenjiro…