Analysis Of Korematsu-Civil Wartime Internment Camps

On December 7, 1941, the world changed with Japan's first attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, striking the start of another war, World War II. America came back by taking Japanese-Americans from their lives and imprisoning them into internment camps until the war had come to its end in 1945. As citizens, Japanese-Americans should have been given their civil liberties rather than having the government do what they said was best for the common good. The bombing on Pearl Harbor had brought war hysteria, along with that, trashing of personal belongings and racial prejudice on Japanese in which were interned.

The incarceration of all with Japanese descent was majorly influenced by their race and the way they look. In the documentary, Korematsu-Civil

There was then fear and suspicion of the opposing nation. In the article, Japanese-Americans Fight to Preserve Wartime Internment Camps, Justin Ewers states, “Worried about invasion and convinced that Japanese immigrants might be loyal to Japan, Roosevelt insisted the decision was a matter of ‘military necessity.’” This shows that the U.S government had grown suspicious of the Japanese and no longer had trust upon them. They believed and had suspicions that any with Japanese ancestry had some connection with Japan and which they were communicating with the Japanese about the United States. Also in the article, Japanese Americans: The War at Home, Roger Daniels mentions, “The commission said that the “‘broad historical causes were … race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership. Widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan.’” This shows that America had begun to have fear and suspicion on their Japanese citizens. People saw those with Japanese ancestry differently than the way they saw them previous to the attack. People became hatred toward the Japanese-Americans and citizens. The government had no evidence that all individuals with Japanese ancestry had done any

In the article, A Grave Wrong, by Eugene V. Rostow, it states, “Japanese merchants and businessmen were forced to run fire sales of their merchandise, the article reported, like the druggist who sacrificed his $2000 stock for $250.” This shows that people had to not only leave their jobs, but sell everything for less than its worth. Not only were they getting interned and forced to sell their properties, but they would not even get much money out of it knowing they had to sell everything at a price much below the original price would be. In the article, Japanese internment camps, by the staff of History.com, they stated, “Army-directed evacuations began on March 24. People had six days notice to dispose of their belongings other than what they could carry.” Along with the fact that the Japanese-Americans had to get rid of all that they could not carry, they had very little time to. They were going into internment with everything being taken from them and their products to be sold at low prices. Also, would not get money if they could not sell what they