Jewl Duran Hist 136 11/7/10 Japanese American Internment The Japanese American internment was ingrained anti-Asian racism, nativist and economic pressures from groups in California that had long wanted the Japanese gone, and the panic of wartime hysteria. The decisions to relocate and detain Japanese Americans were race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership. Ultimately, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry: including tens of thousands of U.S. citizens were taken from their homes without charges or hearings, were excluded from the entire coastal region, and detained in desolate camps for years after any threat of a Japanese assault on the U.S. mainland had evaporated. The financial costs to Japanese Americans
Following the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans and Japanese people were sent to War Relocation Camps. These camps, surrounded by barbed wire, armed guard towers, with guns facing inwards, felt demeaning to every one of the 100,000 plus located within. Additional orders were given to the guards to shoot anyone who tried to escape. Life in these camps was at best inhospitable. Sheets on clotheslines were used to divide families that slept on cots that were surrounded by the smell of horse urine and dung.
There was a very large amount of anti-Japanese prejudice, especially in the West Coast. The discrimination against Japanese Americans was even at the federal level. Two months after the Pearl Harbor bombing, President Roosevelt authorized the “Executive Order 9066”. This provoked the evacuation of Japanese people from their homes. The United States was afraid there were more Japanese spies plotting another attack.
The nurses felt the same anger as the other women prisoners at their own lack of power and the same repugnance to be sex servants, and as women in the military they had additional worries. They were conscious of their duty not to assist the enemy, and by appearing to cooperate with the Japanese could have faced degrading enquiries and court charges in the after the war; they knew the Japanese as the soldiers who had inflicted terrible injuries on the Australians they had nursed in the crowded temporary hospitals of Malaya and Singapore and as the murderers of 21 of their fellow nurses on the beach; and they feared that even if they survived the experience and were not formally charged with any offence their personal and professional lives after the war would be destroyed. If things came to the worst, they wondered if an individual nurse could attach herself to a particular Japanese in the hope that he might protect her from the others, and if they could ensure silence among themselves as a group. When the Japanese told Sister Win Davis what she had to do or be killed, she said that she chose death. At the time it was not an unlikely alternative.
They wouldn’t even want to tell there sons and daughters because they were so sad and embarrassed. The website called’’livinghistoryfarm.org’’ internment in America, states that a Nisei named Kaz Tada that was 18 years old said, it was one of the worst places to live in experience. It was embarrassing and horrible.’’(paragraph 10 sentence three.) It’s really sad to hear this because I can’t even picture myself in there position it just seems too sad and humiliating. The Nisei was one of the generations that experienced Internment camps more.
Those who refused to take it, disobeyed the rules of the camp, or were suspected troublesome were sent to a facility in North Carolina called the Tula Lake Facility, which was later named a segregation center. We all were housed in barracks, with cots pushed close together, and not given the care we needed. Many died due to lack of medical attention; along with the intense amounts of stress that each of us had endured. The camps were surrounded by fence and constantly watched by a countless amount of guard towers holding only white men. We were forced to work in the camps in order to keep the facility running.
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
Despite the superior numbers of British and Indian troops, the Japanese brushed them aside, the Allied forces being poorly trained. Allied troops repeatedly fell behind Japanese lines, engulfed by the onslaught. Those who were not prepared for the Allied retreat were taken prisoner, or killed, by the Japanese. The Japanese crossed the strait and
They have larger area and long range to fight. it was difficult for U.S because the Germans were hiding in the buildings and used tanks and stuff. The American soldiers had to live in the foxholes. The soldiers had not enough ammo and clothing. The soldiers felt depression because their friends dead in front of them.
Many were born in Canada and had Canadian values and morals and knew nothing about being Japanese. Furthermore, Japan was now a ruin and a radiation filled country from the war. “Thousands of Japanese Canadians (born in Canada) were being sent to a country they had never known and where they would still feel quite alienated. Family members would be divided. They were being deported to a country that had been destroyed by bombs and was now hunger-stricken due to the