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Made on Wednesday, the 26 of August, 2020.

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Made on Wednesday, the 26 of August, 2020.

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After Order 9066 was revoked officially in 1976 by Gerald Ford, Japanese did not have it any easier. The last camp closed in 1946. The stigmatic views shown towards Japanese lasted for many years, and acts of terrorism and lynchings occurred. THe government did pay out amounts to internees.

Source : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354763/

"Japanese Americans returning to the West Coast were met with verbal abuse, rejection, and discrimination (Loo, 1993). In California, signs reading “No Japs Wanted” were frequent and communities held mass meetings to argue against their return. Seventy instances of terrorism and 19 shootings were identified (Girdner & Loftis, 1969). The actual numbers, however, likely were higher given the hesitancy of Japanese Americans to call attention to their situation."

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Life was hard inside the camp. The Japanese were kept in prison-like environments; being kept behind fences, barbed-wire, and guards. Inside the walls were city-like environments of Japanese people trying to go about their daily lives. Kids went to school, and Japanese adults worked. There are occasions of mistreatment by the guards to the Japanese. The board conditions where not any better, usually being to small for today's standards.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354763/

"They lived imprisoned behind barbed wire, watched by armed guards, for an average of two to four years. No charges were ever brought before the Japanese Americans, nor were they given the opportunity for a review."

Source : https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration/alt/japanese4.html#:~:text=Life%20in%20the%20camps%20had,their%20daily%20business%20in%20public.

"Life in the camps had a military flavor; internees slept in barracks or small compartments with no running water, took their meals in vast mess halls, and went about most of their daily business in public. Physical mistreatment was rare, but the armed guards and the ever-present snipers in the watchtowers were constant reminders of the residents' new status. Over time, life in the internment camps began to follow its own routine. Students were sent to school every morning, and adult internees were given jobs, usually farming or maintaining the physical plant. Each camp had a governing council, and many of the institutions of normal community life—newspapers, businesses, sports teams, concerts, places of worship—grew and thrived within the barbed wire. At the same time, however, camp life worked to erode some of the most distinctive tenets of the Japanese American community. "

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Source : Britannica.com

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After the events of Pearl Harbor and America entering the war, their was much hatred built up towards Japanese citizens. People thought of them as being "traitors". The question many people ask is, "Why the Japanese only and no Germans?".

Source : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354763/

"The mass incarceration was portrayed as necessary to protect the country from potential acts of espionage or sabotage that might be committed by someone of Japanese ancestry. However, an extensive government review initiated in 1980 found no evidence of military necessity to support the removal decision and concluded that the incarceration was a grave injustice fueled by racism and war hysteria."

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Executive Order 9066; Just the Beginning...

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Executive Order 9066; Just the Beginning...

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From 1942-1945, the U.S. Military was seeking out Americans of Japanese decent and relocating them out west, away from large cities as they were considered by some an strategic threat.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation

"Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century."