Transcript Japanese Americans from Washington State

Japanese Internment
Camps
Japanese Propaganda Posters
Photographs from Tule Lake
Photographs from Tule Lake
Working…..
School…..
High School Photos
Living Quarters….
Link to Photos of Washington
Citizens
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/ju
ne/photo/camp.html
Japanese Americans from
Washington State
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On April 21, 1942, "evacuation" announcements
addressed to Japanese Americans are posted on
Seattle telephone poles and bulletin boards. The
community is ordered to leave the city in three
groups on the following Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in
December 1941 had set in motion a series of
events and decisions that led to what has been
called the worst violation of constitutional rights
in American history: the expulsion and
imprisonment of 110,000 persons of Japanese
ancestry from the U.S. West Coast. Two thirds of
them were American citizens.
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The U.S. government wasted no time in
clamping down on the 9,600 Japanese
Americans in King County. The FBI arrested
Issei (first generation Japanese) and a few Nisei
(second generation), including Buddhist priests,
Japanese language teachers, and officials and
leaders of community organizations.
By the end of March, 1942, sites had been
determined for "assembly centers," temporary
prison camps to be used as holding centers for
persons of Japanese ancestry until the people
could be moved to more permanent "relocation
centers." At the time, 14,400 Japanese and
Japanese Americans lived in Washington state,
9,600 of them in King County. The Japanese
population of Seattle was nearly 7,000.
A total of 12,892 persons of Japanese ancestry
from Washington state were incarcerated. Seattle
and Puyallup Valley Japanese were sent to the
Puyallup "assembly center" and then onto
Minidoka in Idaho.