Many newspapers would also publish propaganda cartoons concerning the Japanese military, which fueled a general racist attitude towards Japanese-American residents. Almost overnight the country had taken on a new sense of patriotism and a belief in contributing to an all-out war effort. The hysteria would finally culminate in President Roosevelt signing executive order 9102, which established the War Relocation Authority on March 18, 1942. This order allowed the military to designate areas along the coast from which all enemy aliens, both immigrants, and native-born, were to be moved inland to relocation camps. On March 24, 1942, the first civilian exclusion order was issued for Bainbridge Island, where forty-five families were …show more content…
This order gave members of the military the authority to remove Japanese people from the area if their presence there was deemed too close to the military establishment. In April 1942, Exclusion Order 346 forced the Japanese-American citizens to live in assembly centers which were in various open spaces such as fairgrounds and tracks. By the fall of 1942, the Japanese people had been evacuated out of the West Coast and to inland internment camps. The camps were in Arizona, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Arkansas and were usually built in remote, rural areas near small towns. Newspapers are supposed to report the truth in an unbiased manner. Following Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government and private organizations began releasing anti-Japanese propaganda, much of it full of racial stereotypes. Films, songs, and newspapers encouraged Americans to hate the Japanese as a people, comparing them to vermin or subhuman beasts. They were referred to as “Nip,” "Jap" and "Yellow" and these derogatory terms used by many Americans during the war. Japanese were depicted as apes, rats, demons, and other beasts. Propaganda in favor of Japanese-American internment was produced by both