Japanese Americans

Michael Hagen / Chase Berklacich / Michael Codorniz / Jared Drake

はじめに150,000 Japanese Anericans lived in Hawaii during the time of Pearl Harbor. These civilians were accused of helping plan the surprise attack and had their loyalty to the US questioned. The United States War Department suggested we evacuate the entire race from our country. This recommendation was denied due to the Hawaiin military governor calming down his people. Businesses also opposed an evacuation because so many jobs would be lost and these companies would be unable to provide profit for the island's economy. The press worked hard to back up this position. In the end, nearly all Japanese Americans stayed.

Opportunity

Most Japanese Americans did not have many opportunities in America after Pearl Harbor most of the Japanese were put into internment camps because the government saw them as a threat to national security

Hardships● Hawaii suggests that their mass removal on the West Coast was racially motivated rather than born of "military necessity." Due to the

attack on Pearl Harbor.

● Executive Order 9066 was written in vague terms that did not specify an ethnicity, it was used for the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. The government claimed that incarceration was for military necessity and, ironically, to "protect" Japanese Americans from racist retribution they might face as a result of Pearl Harbor.

● "Evacuated" families left behind homes, businesses, pets, land, and most of their belongings. Taking only what they could carry, Japanese Americans were taken by bus and train to assembly centers — hastily converted facilities such as race tracks and fairgrounds. Here they awaited reassignment to the "relocation camps."

● The bombing of Pearl Harbor it shows the power of the japanese military as it was a surprise attack towards the United States.On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a devastating surprise aerial attack on the U. S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor and on American military airfields on Oahu.

● On January 2, 1945, the Exclusion Order was lifted and Japanese Americans were free to leave the relocation camps and to return to their former homes, or to any location they pleased. Some of the interned Japanese (1,327) who although U. S. residents were Japanese citizens, chose to emigrate to Japan (although the war was still on). The last relocation camp closed in 1946.

Terms

Internment Camps: An internment camp is a center for confining people who have been relocated for reasons of national security Korematsu v. United States: The court upheld his convention on the grounds that a group”s civil rights can be set aside in a time of war.Executive Order 9066: This authorized the secretary of war to prescribe certain areas as military zones. This cleared the way for the deportation of japanese americans to internment camps.