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Roosevelt had to address two challenges in his Pearl Harbor Address. Roosevelt had to address the sudden, planned hostility by Japan and the doubt of domestic security for America. In his address Roosevelt spoke of the many predetermined attacks of the Japanese stating: Yesterday,…

disastrous history is about “military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…

This is what happened during World War II after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States’ citizens and government officials were suspicious of the Japanese-Americans being disloyal to their country. This fear became the reason many people lived in military-style barracks surrounded by barbed wire fences and guards at an internment camp (Interview 2). What was life like to live there for the duration of the war? How did the Japanese-Americans feel? This topic was of interest to me…

The Japanese American Internment was forced relocation. Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation which required the immigrants from other World War II countries to register with the Department of Justice (Staff, 2009). For example, Italy, Germany, Japan. Once registered, there was a Certificate of Identification for Aliens of Enemy Nationality (Staff, 2009). This was said to be a follow up of the Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Staff, 2009). We will talk about executive order,…

explored through visual World War II propaganda. Often, Americans would be portrayed as idiotic and careless while the Japanese soldiers would be strong, highlighted with astonishing qualities, and smart when compared to the American idiot portrayed. This was all in an effort to dehumanize Americans while portraying pride in a Japanese nationalist mindset. “The media was making the Japanese feel as though they are superior to the United States.” Superior in tactics, ability, and in unity. This…

medicine etc. But one situation that the United States was involved which was considered a grave mistake were the Japanese internment camps. These were the camps that the Japanese or people thought to be Japanese were put into after the bombing of pearl harbor by the Japanese. After this the Japanese were considered the enemy and a threat to the United States simply for being Japanese or looking like one. Now we look back on the time of World War 2 and we can only imagine how these innocent…

Secondly, the internment of the Japanese Americans subjects civilians, men, mothers, women, children, and elderly, American citizens to conditions that were more suitable for soldiers and war criminals. Close to 120,000 people were kept in ten camps, that means around 11,000 people a camp. And they detained men, women, and children. Farewell to Manzanar, an autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki, someone who grew up in the camps details the conditions that the Japanese American internees were kept in…

many Japanese-Canadians living near the British Columbia coast were relocated, and eventually put into internment camps, as Canadians believed if they were to be attacked by the Japanese, local residents would attempt to aid them. Despite the modern thoughts on the Japanese-Canadian internment, Canadians during World War II, specifically those living in British Columbia, believed that the Japanese deserved to be interned, as the majority of them felt unsafe with their presence. The…

Conner Yoshimoto Mrs. Marino 21 September 2015 Short Story It started one morning in February, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. It stated that all Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps in the United States. A news anchor reported this too. Little did I know that this moment changed my life forever. One morning I awoke to raised voices. I could recognize my mom’s voice, but the other was foreign. As I walked downstairs I saw what must be an official with…

work or be executed. The Japanese and the United States had different ideas of concentration camps. They definitely had more differences than similarities. The United States used internment camps instead of the concentration camps used by the Nazis in Germany. The internment camp I'll be talking about is called Camp Harmony and the Japanese concentration camp I will be talking about is all their camps in general. The United States’ version of concentration camps and the Japanese version of…