Japanese Internment Camps

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Japanese Internment Camps
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Executive Order of 9066

• Executive Order that allowed the US government to
  use of internment camps to contain the Japanese
  into certain areas
• US government felt this was necessary after the
  attack on Pearl Harbor, fearing that Japanese
  Americans would help Japan

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Relocation of Japanese

• There were a total of 10 camps that the Japanese
  were moved to
• They were told only to bring what they could
  carry had to leave all other possessions behind
• About 120,000 Japanese were relocated most were
  American citizens
• War Relocation Centers

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Camps were mainly in the western part of the
United States. US government were particularly
concerned with Japanese living on the west coast,
closest to Japan
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Life in the Camps

• Camp was surrounded by barbed wire
• Ate in mess halls, had communal bathrooms, lived
  in cramped quarters
• Razors, scissors and radios were banned
• Children were sent to schools, run by US
  government, taught American ideals

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Japanese were told that if they boxed and labeled
their other furniture/possessions the government
would store it, but they made no guarantees about
the security of the items
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Leaving the Camps

• Could leave in 1943 if joined US military
• Roosevelt revoked the order in 1944 and the last
  camp was closed in 1946

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Lasting Impression

• Korematsu v. United States
• In 1990 US finally admitted wrong doing
• US apologized to 60,000 survivors and paid each
  20,000 in reparations