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Pros And Cons Of Japanese Internment

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Executive Order 13769 was an order issued by the United States president Donald Trump on January 27th, 2017. This order was titled ‘Protect the Nation from foreign Terrorist Entries’. However, it was severely controversial as it seemed like the order was more of racial profiling against Muslim people. In addition, people criticized that an executive order boosted a conflict with the Muslims rather than solving it. Furthermore, it was also reflected as unnecessary order considering that U.S never experienced a terror since September 11 terror. The controversy of ‘Muslim ban’ is going through a similar flow as Japanese internment which was proposed by U.S government after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On February 19, 1942, three months after the …show more content…

U.S government reflected Japanese as hypocritical, not trustable liars, and an ‘enemy’. A lot of people might claim that Japanese internment was a violation of freedom and liberty but in U.S point of view, it was a justified move which could limit the move of opponent from the war and eliminate the potential threat. Secondly, even though people were in internments, U.S provided and tried to make relatively good environment for the internees. As soon as the order was executed, 120,000 Japanese rooted people were captured and went to internment camps. This was a violation of liberty which initially took away all the businesses, jobs, and the normal life of Japanese Americans. However, it is clear that U.S government tried to provide them a livable environment inside an internment camps. They were served with three meals a day, they could stay with their families, and they were totally protected with totally armed American soldiers.( Not only from external threats but the hatred of U.S citizens toward Japanese people were already in uncontrolled level and Japanese internment compass were able to protect themselves from these threats …show more content…

Even though most of the people were innocent and weren’t involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor, not all the ethnic Japanese Americans were loyal to America. Michelle Malkin, the author of a book ‘In defense of Internment’ claimed that a year before the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan was sending messages to U.S consulates that they are recruiting Japanese American spies on the West Coast and it failed as it was decrypted by U.S top officials. If this move from Japan was successful and U.S didn’t ordered the internment of Japanese Americans, it was definitely a threat for the safety of citizens. This proves that every Japanese individuals were suspected and Japanese internment was an inevitable or best choice to solve this problem. In fact, there were lots of people who were recruited by spies of Imperial Japan during war but they weren’t able to make their moves or complete their mission due to this order executed by John F.

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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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This, however, is not credible because many Japanese-Americans had lived in America for generations, considering America their true home. The fear in their race is no reason to support the Executive Order 9066. [CONCLUSION] The Japanese internment camps in the United States, caused by the President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, was not justified and never should have occurred. The citizens that were locked up in those camps, like women and children, posed no threat to the

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Overall, the Japanese were interned during World War one because they were seen as a hypothetical threat to U.S security. The U.S viewed the Japanese population as saboteurs and more specifically, a threat national security. In document B of the Japanese internment DBQ it describes how the U.S racistly generalized the Japanese as Saboteurs who would easily destroy anything in their sight. With the mass hysteria in regards to the stereotype, the U.S too more precaution in regards to the Japanese community and imprisoned them. Moreover, another reason the Japanese were interned is because the Japanese only posed a threat to American security on the West coast.

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According to the Supreme Court Record “Part Three of the Brief” it states, “There was ample ground to believe that imminent danger then existed of an attack by Japan upon the West Coast.” (206) This was mainly believed because the area had a large amount of war facilities and production which could have assisted in their belief of having the internment policy. Also, a factual claim that pro-internment advocates expressed was that through the “existence of media” Japan have attempted or had attempted to secure war aims. (206)

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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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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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Akiko Kurose, who was 16 and attending a Seattle high school at the time, described when, after the Pearl Harbor attack, “one of the teachers said, ‘You people bombed Pearl Harbor’”, referencing Akiko’s Japanese heritage (Document 1). If, indeed, this was the general feeling of all non-Japanese Americans, than it is easy to see how amassed public hatred could lead to the internment of the hated. The government was even aware of the minimal threat posed by the interned—The Munson Report, delivered to President Roosevelt by his Special Representative of the States Department, Charles Munson, has such a statement as follows, “There is no Japanese ‘problem’ on the Coast. There will be no armed uprising of Japanese” (Document 4). And Mary Tsukamoto, who was an American of Japanese heritage, was forced in 1942 to an internment camp with her husband and child, leaving their strawberry farm behind, described her shock, “We couldn't believe that they would need all of us to quit our work to produce our fruit, food for victory... and then be put away”(Document 3).

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Many historians agree that this event was undoubtedly unconstitutional and an infringement of basic human rights. The forced incarceration of Japanese

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To be stripped of freedom for the sake of accommodating those who are prejudiced against one’s heritage remains an unjustifiable action. Although oppression remains a sensitive issue in society, one must not silence the history of its existence as humanity must learn from its mistakes. Such silencing was experienced by the Japanese citizens of Canada as their freedoms were replaced with discrimination. Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th, 1941 ¹, the Canadian government systematically removed over 21 000 Japanese Canadians from their businesses and homes and forced them into internment camps from 1941-1949 ². Thus, the methodical location of Japanese Canadians into internment camps during World War II was unjustified.

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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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In my opinion I do not think internment of the American Japanese could be avoided. With Pearl harbor being bombed and American Japanese, although loyal to this country, there was a fear of a Japanese invasion of the west coast. I feel

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Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive order of 9066 on February 19, 1942, which had forced all of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans, regardless of loyalty or citizenship, to evacuate the Internment camps. The order was abrupt causeing Many Japanese to be forced to sell their property and land at a severe loss before departure because no one would be able to take care of the property or land. The Japanese had just the clothese on their back and whatever they had in their pocket, as the effect was instantaneous and the Japanese were not prepared for this Act. The order had not applied to Japaanese/Japnese-Americans in Hawaii because many of the workforce (i.e farmers) were not effected by this order as the Japanese were majority work force for the US. If those japanese were to be sent to the Internment camps, then US economy would take a hit in profits which the US desperately needed for World War II.

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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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Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. In 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor close to Honolulu, Hawaii

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Over a staggering 120,000 United States citizens were held captive during World War II. What was there crime? Being from Japanese ancestry. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many Americans were scared of another attack.

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