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Pros And Cons Of Japanese Internment Camps

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Japanese Internment Camps - Persuasive Argument On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base located near Pearl Harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii. After the bombing, Japanese Americans were sent off to internment camps due to President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision on releasing Executive Order 9066. Even though the U.S government’s decision was meant to benefit the country’s safety from more attacks by the Japanese, my strong belief is that Executive Order 9066 was not justifiable towards Americans. One reason why the U.S government’s decision was not justifiable is because many of the Japanese-Americans were innocent people who legally received their American citizenship. For example, in Monica Sone’s “Camp Harmony”,
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When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Japanese Americans were suspected of spying on the US Government and selling information to Japan. This was enough reason for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to authorize the deportation and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans, using Executive Order 9066. This was not justified, and was not fair, to the Japanese Americans. 62% of the internees were United States citizens, and 99% of all Japanese Americans were not spies. Executive Order 9066 was an order signed and issued during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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The Executive Order 9066 was an ordered issued by America during World War II in 1941 from the japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. As a result of the bombing this order was issued, sending more than 110,000 japanese americans living on the west coast of the U.S and were placed in internment camps. This was an unnecessary and racist act made by America, “this imprisonment was the result of two closely related emotions; racism and hysteria (japanese-american internment was an unnecessary and racist act)”. Many people agree that this event was very unnecessary, Edison Tomimaro Uno a former internee notes that the Japanese people relocated to camps for their own “protection” was sheer hypocrisy, he calls this a crime attributable to racism and economic and political opportunism which is a statement I agree with.

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Primary Source Analysis 1942, just over 2 years into World War II the nation was in turmoil, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. The purpose for this was protection but the question is how much protection was insured by Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was created out of necessity for the protection of Americans both for the Japanese descendants which could have faced much brutality from people who blamed them for their loosely connected ancestor's actions and also protect other natural born Americans who could have been harmed by some Japanese descendants who sided with the Japanese. This order created internment camps, even thought we were also at war with Germany only people of Japanese ancestry were placed in these camps. The document refers to the people who were put in these camps as “alien enemies” although they had shown no signs of being anything but loyal to the

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Rough Draft Japanese POW Camps The Japanese prisoner of war camps were prisons ran by savages, with no rules. These camps were built for soldiers that surrendered in World War Two, and lasted until the end of the war. These camps were ran by savages that saw us less than dogs, and treated people worse than the Germans did. "There were many indeed who became so demoralized that they abandoned every tenet of personal integrity, honor, loyalty, and the accepted standards of human behavior.”

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On December 11, 1941 Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese, more than 360 Japanese warplanes. They came and bombed our harbor killing more than 5,000 people. After the bombing America had a suspicion that maybe there was a spy, so they put more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans in an internment camps. I feel that internment camps were not necessary though because of that action we were thought of as racist, harsh, and dis loyal. I feel that because of those internment camps we were looked at as racist because we put humans in a internment camp just because they were of a different race.

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In the court case, they stated, “the Court nonetheless felt “that in time of war residents having ethnic affiliation with an invading enemy may be greater source of danger than those of a different ancestor.”’ (Rothenberg & Mayhew, 2014, pg. 551). They used the concept of “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” to deal with the issues that were going on at the time. They disregard any personalities and qualities of every Japanese American. They removed the American and used only the Japanese of the term to “protection against espionage and against sabotage.”

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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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It should have been far more crucial for America to consider the civil liberties of the Japanese Americans rather than the common good of the nation because they were also victims of Pearl Harbor, the government based their decisions out of war hysteria and it intensified racial prejudice. The government responded solely on war hysteria. The

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During the time of the World War II and because of the surprise attack by Japan towards the US naval base Pearl Harbor, located on the island of Hawaii, the enmity between these two countries was declared. The situation that caused a lot of controversy was the decision taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign the executive order 9066 in May 1942. This order was to internalize Japanese and even entire families in remote areas of the cities to be able to avoid any type of espionage by Japan, since there was no way to ensure that the Japanese Americans and their families were loyal to the nation of the United States. The internees began one month after the signature of the new order. Buses and trains were used to transport the japanese in the fields of California which were under military guard.

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Due to the increasing fear of a Japanese attack on the West Coast, Lt. General John L. Dewitt recommended that all people of Japanese descent living in America be removed to the interior of the country. In the article “An American Tragedy: The Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II” by Norman Y. Mineta, former US Secretary of Transportation, Dewitt backed up his suggestion with rumors that “ethnic Japanese on the West Coast were signaling Japanese ships out in the Pacific ocean” and they “had stockpiled numerous rounds of ammunition and weapons” (Mineta 161). In order to combat this threat in case of enemy invasion, the camps would detain the Japanese Americans so they cannot aid the enemy. The warped logic used to imprison 110,000 people purely based on ethnic background was convincing enough to the American people that they didn’t even question

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Jayna Marie Lorenzo May 23, 2023 Historiography Paper Professor Kevin Murphy Historiography Final: Japanese Internment “A date which will live in infamy,” announced President Roosevelt during a press conference after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Due to the military threat by the Japanese on the West Coast, on February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, ordering for the incarceration of all people of Japanese descent. The Order forced about 120,000 Japanese Americans into relocation centers across the United States where they remained in captivity until the war ended.

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On December 7th, 1941, Japanese Aircraft and submarines launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii territory. Many Japanese aircraft flew in the sky with intent to eliminate the Pearl Harbor base, the soldiers, and all of our equipment. The American soldiers tried to protect themselves, our nation, and their brothers who they were fighting along side with. Both of the articles we have read contained a claim in relation to Japanese internment camps during WWII. The first article supported the idea japanese internment camps were necessary and our nation could have became corrupt because of the lack of trust and idea of dishonesty by the Japanese American population.

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To begin with, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing military commanders to remove Japanese decent people out of their home areas. Whether or not they were citizens of the United States they were told to leave their homes on the west coast and report to assembly centers, also known as internment camps. Moreover, many questions arise stating, was it within the power of Congress and the Executive branch to exclude persons of Japanese ancestry from their homes. Justice Hugo Black claimed that during the time the exclusion was ordered, it was justified because although the exclusion imposed hardship on American citizens it was a time of war. Therefore, under the conditions of war the country is able to act if they

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 and authorized  the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II. At the time of the  order the nation was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and citizens, especially along the West  Coast, feared another attack was imminent. Many believed that Japanese Americans were still loyal to  Japan and would act as spies, even though almost two­thirds of internees were United States citizens. Racial stereotypes and propaganda pieces that were prevalent before and during the war depicted the  Japanese as less than human and barbaric in nature.   Internees in most cases lost their homes, businesses and possessions when they were interned.

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December 7th of 1941 America would face a horrific scene in their own homeland, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor with their Air Force not once but twice. That same day President John F. Kennedy would decide to place the Japanese Americans, living in the country at the time, in internment camps. The civilians would not have a clue what they would be put up against, now they would have to encounter various obstacles to make sure they would be able to survive. “The camps were prisons, with armed soldiers around the perimeters, barbed wire. and controls over every aspect of life”(Chang).

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