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    frightened of Japan. Many people believe that Japanese Americans remained loyal to Japan as spies, although most were American citizens. The US government began to gradually limit the rights of Japanese Americans, and eventually forced them to leave their homes and be detained in detention camps. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, ordering the warheads to the west coast in 1942, in which Japanese Americans were detained to…

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    Fred Korematsu

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    War, President Franklin Roosevelt issued executive order 9066 giving the United States military the power to ban American citizens of Japanese descent from areas they deemed necessary. Soon after that the U.S. military built internment camps for the people of Japanese decent to be held in for the duration of the war. Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry defied the executive order by refusing to leave is home in California, after being convicted he appealed in 1944 and his…

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    Japanese American’s lives changed in an instant due to a different country's actions. In the middle chapters of When an Emperor Was Divine, it showcases the struggles all families went through when realizing where they will be living until the end of the war. Otsuka highlights the hardships the characters go to through inside and outside of the internment camp, reminding us of the struggles Japanese Americans went through during WWII to overcome the public's trepidation. As the girl and her…

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    American citizens were uneasy because they believed that the Japanese people in America were behind the attack and that they were going to harm them in their own country. To fix this problem, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 creating Internment camps. Within two months the first internment camp opened and they continued to operate until 1945, nearly two years later. In the Japanese Internment camps, the Japanese Immigrants were kept in the camps by a fence with…

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    family who inspired many people to never give up in times of crisis; hiding away from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Another true story comes from letters of Japanese American children in the United States’ internment camps during World War II. Some of these children’s letters were gathered and put in the book, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, Louise Owaga writes to Miss Breed about their beautiful journey to…

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    caused by the interception Americans made against the Japanese advancing to New Guinea in May of 1942. This was the first battle air-sea battle in history. The Japanese planes landed in the area of New Guinea, Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher commanded the American aircraft carriers to attack. Because of codebreakers who knew enough information to perceive the japanese, the Allied fleets were able assembled in the Coral Sea in time to attack the Japanese. These aircraft carriers were new naval…

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    unit made up of all Japanese Americans. Nisei another name for Americans with Japanese ancestry were highly discriminated against after the infamous event, Pearl harbor occurred. Many Nisei were put into internment camps for what was said at the time for National security. Colonel Pettigrew was determined to put these Japanese Americans into a unit, however it took him till 1942 to get the go-ahead. It was passed by assistant secretary of war Mr. John J Mccloy. Also prior japanese draftees were…

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    The Sphere Of Influence

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    surrounding the Japanese and and American relations therefore, causing tension between the once mutualistic relationship. The Japanese wished to expand their power and influence by dominating the Asian world consequently, this is known as the “Sphere of Influence”. The Japanese would raze the technology stagnant Chinese and rule over many islands to fuel the growing demand for natural resources. The U.S was against Japanese imperialism and therefore they put sanctions to abate the Japanese…

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    This investigation will focus on the Japanese-American experience during World War II and attempt to answer the question, “In what ways and with what effects did Japanese Americans experience internment camps during World War II?”. In order to thoroughly answer this question the following subtopics will be focused on: the bombing of Pearl Harbor which led to the relocation of the Japanese in America, FDR’s Executive Order that called for the relocation of Japanese Americans which led to the…

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