Transcript Japanese Americans

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
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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.
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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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.