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Internment In Canada

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Making Canada great Again From 1942-1949 the Canadian government was responsible for the cruel internment of Japanese citizens in Canada. Ever since the first sailor Manzo-Nagano arrived in New Westminster, BC Japanese have experienced prejudice. Early BC settlers were extremely conscious of there ethnic origin and were extremely concerned with the racial origins of immigrants, they became obsessed with eliminating “undesirables” and as a result passed laws preventing them from voting, working in mines and other government funded projects. On Dec 7th 1941, Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor killing 2403 Americans, 22,000 Japanese Canadians were disposed of there property and belongings and were evicted to various internment camps. The definition of a just society is that everyone has equal rights regardless of gender race. During WWII treatment of Japanese Canadians was unjust. Regardless of Japanese not being seen as security threats they were still majorly discriminated against. After the Japanese forced the surrender of the British garrison in Hong Kong and the Pearl Harbor attack, fears of a Japanese invasion was anticipated, the RCMP impounded 1,200 fishing boats, shut down …show more content…

On Feb, 24th 1942, Prime Minister William Lyon Makenzie King issued a number of orders-in-council to force them back to Japan or disperse them Far East of the Rockies. Considering they were not being seen as threats to the country, to issue such an outrageous order-in-council for no apparent reason Is simply a racist act that 's should be seen as unjust. Ten days later they trained Japanese down to Hastings park where they were put in animal stalls, dehumanized and inadequately fed. To do this to another person who has done nothing but have a different pigmentation is sick nothing Japanese Canadians did led them to deserve

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On December 7th, 1941,when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor there was a intense pressure of anti-Japanese feeling in Canada. They feared that the Japanese Canadians would help Japan to invade Canada 's West Coast. Anyone of Japanese origin in Canada were treated with suspicion, hatred and discrimination. Many spoke no Japanese and had little or no connection to Japan. But within a week the Japanese Canadian homes, businesses and boats were taken under the War Measures Act without any form of restitution.

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As opposed to righteous view that America was safeguarding its position in the war, the Japanese American internments were created out of resentment and racial prejudice fostered by other Americans. As the article “Personal Justice Denied” stated, the internments were led by “widespread ignorance of Japanese Americans contributed to a policy conceived in haste and executed in an atmosphere of fear and anger at Japan” (Doc E, 1983). It may seem like a precautionary cause to make internments but there aren’t any other extreme measures for other fronts. Caused by a hatred stirred by media and society’s view, many people disdain the Japanese.

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In support of the notion that the Supreme Court of Canada erred in upholding the Order-in-Council which permitted the forcible removal of “Japanese Canadian” from Canada, according to the Order in Council the word “deportation” means the “removal, pursuant to the authority of this Order (7355), of any person from any place in Canada”. This is a process of being sent away from a particular country based on legal reasons. But in this case, the Japanese were not foreigners in Canada but rather they were citizens before Canada invoked the War Measure Act. The deportation of the Japanese Canadians in 1945 was as a result of the World War II, which led to the suspicion by the Canadian government that the Japanese race was an ally with the German government. On the 15th of December 1945, Orders were made based on the War Measures act to remove all native Japanese and any other persons that is related to the Japanese race from Canada.

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Events from the Home Front #1 - Conscription One of the most serious controversies experienced by many at the home front during WW1 was conscription. In 1914 Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden declared that conscription would never be necessary in Canada. Only 2810 men signed up to fight during the war but the Canadian government needed more men. In 1917 conscription was introduced and men were forced to enlist for the war as a result of the Military Service Act that was passed by Prime Minister Borden. Men aged 20-45 were forced to leave their families, join the war and fight for Britain.

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How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.

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During World War II the Canadian government took actions to protect the country against a Pacific threat that resulted in the unjust treatment of Japanese Canadians residing in the country. Civil rights were blatantly abused as Japanese Canadians were targeted based on their race and not on their loyalties or connection to Japan, and little effort was made by the government in making these distinctions. Citizens who posed no threat to their country were forced to leave their homes, have their property and fishing boats taken away and later sold, and moved inland into internment camps. These security precautions put forth by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King only resulted in Japanese Canadians being separated from their families and

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“The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.” (Crawford 1). After the attack, the government felt threatened by the Japanese. Therefore, they could not trust any, even the ones living in the United States. Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps or military camps where they were not allowed to leave.

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WWII- The Internment of Japanese Canadians When the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, shock and anger gripped many Canadians. This is the event that prompted the discrimination of the Japanese in Canada. All Japanese nationals, who were people born in Japan but living in Canada, and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned under the War Measures Act. Japanese Canadians were taken from their homes, packed into trains, and sent to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia.

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The internment of Japanese-Americans was justified because there were Japanese suspects. Between ten internment camps in Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas, about 250-300 people in each camp were suspects under surveillance. Only around 50-60 people were actually considered dangerous. “It is easy to get on the suspect list, merely a speech in favor of Japan being sufficient to land one there” (Munson 2). Clearly, America was taking extreme precautions.

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Australian POWs In 1942 over 22,000 soldiers and 40 nurses were captured by the Japanese, trapped working as slaves for the Japanese. Most were captures when the Japanese forces took over Malaya, Singapore, New Britain, and the Netherlands East Indies. The long wait until World War II finished, one in three of the captured Australians had died, approximately 8,000 through all the country's. One thousand deaths caused form allied ship torpedoed the unmarked ship carrying the prisoners around Japan's wartime empire. In 1945 the lucky survivors of the harsh conditions were liberated from all camps all over Asia, some places had been captured and others in Burma and Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan itself.

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The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.

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Japanese Internment Among all of the other countries, one had the courage to bomb the United States of America. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor because of the threat the Navy had on the U.S. After that, America feared another attack or even worse, an invasion from Japan in the West Coast. In order to prepare for an invasion America decided to relocate all of the Japanese-Americans, mainly in the West Coast because they were the most threat. Many people debated whether relocating was the right thing to do.

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In my opinion, the Japanese were still trying to show that they were Americans. They were complying with people putting them into the internment camps and they burned all of their heritage. Honestly, they were not doing anything un-American, but, because of their race, they were targeted. Arresting someone based on race is not constitutional, but we still see it today.

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What if you were stripped of all your rights in the a blink of an eye? The Japanese-Canadians experienced the horrid and life changing events of internment camps which were targeted specifically towards them. All Canadians of Japanese heritage residing only on the West coast of British Columbia had their homes, farms, businesses and personal property sold and completely liquidated. This was all due to the government 's quick actions against the Japanese. These actions were fuelled by the events of Pearl Harbour during WW2.

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I don’t believe the treatment is justified. I understand the government and citizens wanting to be safe, especially at wartime. Also the fact that the Japanese weren’t interned until after the Pearl Harbour attack shows that the Japanese weren’t interned because they were from a country of the axis powers until a place close to home was attacked. This further shows that the government believed the Japanese Canadians had nothing to do with the country of Japan, and even let them enlist, but when Pearl Harbour was attacked Canada started fearing the result if these Japanese Canadians turned on Canada for their motherland.

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