Japanese Internment Camps During Ww2

America in World War II was fighting a war with the Japanese and Natzi’s; the Americans fighting to protect their Nation from any further harm. Which was created by the Japanese, bombing and emerging fear from this within the nation. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 being one of the reasons as to why the United States felt threatened and took action joining the war. Attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air, killing over two thousand American Naval soldiers. However, it brought problems for those who were Japanese people living in America because it caused American people to believe they had a relationship with Japan, making it dangerous to those that surrounded them. Japanese families then having their citizen rights taken

"Text and image relations in Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660." Discover Nikkei. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2017.) Each individual at one of those camps leaving their entire lives behind such as their homes and jobs they had. (source 1). Once people were then in the camps settled in, they were distinguished into three different groups throughout camps. There were the Issei, Nisei, and Sansei throughout the camps each one was based on whether or not an individual was a citizen of america(source 8). This determining the three different wages given out to people working and the money had ranged between twelve, sixteen, and nineteen dollars based on the type of work they had (source 8). Which for many families was a problem because some weren’t able to earn enough to where they could get supplies and other items they needed to be able to sustain their families. Becoming even harder when more and more people began to arrive in the camps making it harder for their to be enough jobs and resources for everyone to obtain from (source 2). Manzanar being

Conditions there turning worse as time went by due to the increase in people that were sent to a camp. That controlling the amount of people that went into the camp was impossible, people getting relocated frequently(source 6). The Manzanar an example of one of the camps that was facing the lack of poor conditions in homes and in the majority of public places. Barracks considered as homes for everyone in the camps that lacked ventilation during the winter was horrible. Many suffering either from the heat or coldness there was; nothing comforting them to keep them satisfied when temperatures changed. Then a problem especially, for families with more than three had a difficulty trying to fit in a small space when only a small amount of people had been meant to fit in those barracks. Fifty-four barracks constructed to only be available in Manzanar where in only one barrack at least eight or more families and strangers had been forced lived in. Every single day more people transported and relocated into new camps due to overcrowding in the previous location they came from. (source 6). Families then facing the chances of getting ill or getting a disease due to the lack of sanitation that the camp had. It leading to illnesses spreading quicker since people lived so close together it spread rapidly through the camp.