Japanese American internment

the shoes of citizens living in that moment. The common man could say easily that Hitler was a horrible human being but the common folk themselves elected him into the positon of a leader, allowing him to carry out his mass genocide. Even today in American society the loudest voices advocate for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, which horrifyingly echoes a past where we stopped Asian immigration. Worse of all, the very enemy in which we were fighting used tactics we employed…

Japanese Americans people were kicked out of their homes and were forced to move to camps. Everything they once knew and owned was gone.The Japanese were forced to leave their homes in Los Angeles because of the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin Roosevelt. The Japanese Americans are moved to internment camps. Interment is the imprisonment of people without trial usually of enemy citizens in wartime or of suspects. The Americans started this because of on surprise attack on Pearl…

The Cats of Mirikitani is a Linda Hattendorf documentary that tells the story of an elderly Japanese American street artist that lives near Washington Square in SoHo district of New York City. The documentary begins in 2001, detailing how “Jimmy” Mirikitani lived on the street and made money by selling his drawings. Jimmy kept his belongings in a shopping cart and set up a makeshift table beside a storefront. In the aftermath of the Twin Towers collapse, the documentary maker invited Jimmy into…

was issued during world war 2 on February 19, 1942. This sent not only Japanese-Americans, but German, and Italian-Americans as well into internment camps. This occurred ten weeks after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. How did this executive order effect American citizens? Well for starters we ripped Japanese-AMERICAN citizens from their homes and their families, and through them in internment camps. We punished our own AMERICAN citizens because of their ethnicity from the orient. This was not…

Order 9066 issued February 19, 1942. The Japanese declared war on America with their attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1942. 366 Japanese air crafts destroyed 188 U.S. planes and killed 2,330 Americans; compared to the 29 aircrafts and 5 submarines that were destroyed; 64 killed Japanese, and one that was taken as a prisoner (1). This attack was the extra push for America to enter World War 2. On February 19, 1942, in the fear of Japanese Americans aiding America 's enemies,…

she feels proud of her mother language, Chicano Spanish, because she realizes that her mother tongue is her distinctive identity. Also, she encourages her chicano friends to keep their identities. Likewise, in “To the Lady”, Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and activist, writes to a lady in San Francisco and claims that the consequence of people not protesting when injustice…

times needs to change with the history. For example the treatment of the Japanese and the Muslims after the terrorist attacks is seen as unfair and is questioned if it was necessary. Even though these two ethnic groups were viewed differently they had a lot of similarities to how they treated after the attacks. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but it wasn’t until February 19th that the Japanese Americans got treated differently by the government. President Franklin D.…

disastrous event known as Pearl Harbour, many Japanese families were suspected of being accomplices and, because of that, they were proclaimed to be ‘enemy aliens’ by all the other American citizens. In the novel, “Farewell to Manzanar”, the authors, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, portray the damaging influences of World War II and its consequences by discussing and comparing Jeanne’s life before and after the internment camps. Many Japanese residents were hardworking and…

The internment and seizure of property on Japanese at that time was a kind of discrimination which cannot be understand for nowadays. But they were at war with America so that’s one of the reason that Americans be more careful on them. The treatment on the Japanese-Americans was a kind of discrimination because it was an action to treat different on a specific race. I think it is understandable for their actions. But we need to know not all of the Japanese were involved into the war. During…

“Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan amid outrage at the attack. Japanese Americans from the West Coast were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war.” U.S citizens came together to get vengeance on Japan’s empire, this was called Remember Pearl Harbor (wikipedia.org). “Two months after the attack, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which initiated an evacuation of all Japanese-Americans from West Coast of the US’’(fortune.com). “The USS Arizona Memorial, at…