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Dear fellow Americans,

I would like to give my sincere and deepest apologies for the way that you were treated. We should have never treated you the way that we did. We shouldn’t have sold your properties and we should have never sent you to Internment Camps. We feared that we would be attacked again. The way that we treated you made Americans think they were allowed to disrespect you. We want to thank the loyal Japanese Americans who served in the war to protect the United States Of America. Therefore we want to apologize and give you $20,000 to repay you for what you had to go to.

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Dear fellow Americans,

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Americans attacked Pearl Harbor. We feared that they were getting information from inside our country so we decided to relocate all Japanese Americans. We believed that it was the best way ease any suspicions of another attack like this from ever happening again. However, we now realize that this discrimination and ill treatment towards Japanese Americans was unacceptable.

Not only were you placed you into internment camps under strict and unfair conditions, but you were stripped of your civil liberties. People viewed you differently, frowned upon you, and were skeptical about your intentions and actions. Also, as you were contained in the camps, there were many brave and loyal Japanese Americans that served in the military to protect the United States. Therefore, we offer a sincere apology to you and your families for the actions that unfairly denied your fundamental liberties during World War II. We know these reparations can’t erase the past, however we’d like to extend $20,000 to you as part of our apology. We are truly sorry for what we did and hope this offer can help you in the future.

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Dear Fellow Americans

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. We feared that they were getting information from inside our country. We decided to relocate all Japanese Americans in an attempt to solve this issue. We thought this was the best decision to ease our suspicions.    . This was a huge mistake. After realizing what we did he are ashamed of our actions. We got so caught up in the war we didn’t realize what we were doing to our own people. We know this won’t solve all your problems but we are giving your $20,000. This is much less than your deserve but hopefully it assist you in your future endeavors.

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I will like to release an apology for how us other disrespectful Americans have been to you and your families. We don't have a right to be so harsh to you, your families and friends. Some of you helped us win the war and yet here we were mistreating you. Pearl Harbor was a very big impact to our country, but, our racist comments and selfishness got to us and discriminated you for something more than many of you didn't do. Putting you far away from us just to make our country feel safe wasn't any means necessary to do. What we did was very unacceptable and we should have never done this to all of you. On behalf of our apology, we are giving you $20,000 for how we mistreated you. We will now go on and become a free country once more.
Thank you.

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we are sending this to you as a apology to you and the people living in are great country. we are really sorry for the hardships the

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we are very sorry for the things we have done in the past. we are humans and make mistakes. we do the wrong things sometimes when we were scared and as a country   we were worried about our own future. we understand that being moved forcefully could have been hard. we took your rights for our own protection.we take all ownership for our actions .you as us citizens deserve your rights here in this country. we do not ask for forgiveness but for you to understand why. we apologize for our mistakes and will give you $20,000 to pay back for our debts. we are truly and deeply sorry. Thank you.

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Dear fellow Americans I am truly sorry for taking  you guys from your home and everything you had and putting you guys in camps. i know it must be very hard  for you to forgive us but I just want you to know that we are all very sorry for what happened to you guys there is nothing we can do for you guys to help you and gain our trust back.I hope that soon you can learn to forgive us and gain our trust so that we can all come back as one country not based on our religion skin or nationality.To show you our sincere apologies we are gifting you $20,000.

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During WW2 we were attacked by the Japanese  at pearl harbor and so after this incident we made a choice to take away you freedom. We the government made a decision to put you in a camp and so doing so you lost your home your old life and your jobs. Hopefully you are having a good life now and so moved on from what has happen and focus on what should happen. The government has come to a decision on to helping your life by giving you $20,000. We do not see this as of a way to pay any Japanese to forget you can remember if you wish, but  we hope that you can at least except our greatest apologies and help us do what right. We hope that the government and hopefully the rest of america see others as equals and know that all of us have freedom.

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Dear Americans,
I apologize for the poor treatment of the Japanese citizens of America during WW2. You did not deserve to be put away for things you were not responsible for and for that we are truly sorry. We only wanted to protect our country from the inside and we went about it in a terrible way. You guys have lost a lot because of our poor decisions and we want to try to repay you by giving you guys $20,000. We want to help and we hope you can forgive us for all the things you had to go through.
- United States Government

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dear, fellow japanese American's we sincerely  apologies for making you go through all that hardship and making you life in the interment camps with nothing

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Dear Japanese-Americans,
We are sorry for sending you away from your original homes to live in a interment camp. It was not personal, we just had to go by protocol for everyone's safety during the war. Far further notice we hope that in the future we can be equal. The government have decided to help you and give you $20,000. This gift is not just for you to have and leave us alone, we are truly sorry for what we did and this offer is to help you for the future.

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I am giving out my dearest apologies to those who were effected and mistreated by the conditions of the camps, during World War ll. The U.S. government is now reaching out to you and your loved ones with sincere apologies to you about the way that you were treated. We now know that it was very wrong of us to take you away from everyone and everything including your homes, work, cars, and other property and valuable items. We are now offering you $20,000 and our apologies. We are very sorry that we thought it would be a good idea to rip away your freedom to save the freedom of others. On that day of December 7th, 1941, when the Japenese bombed Pearl Harbor, everyone was scared, nervous, frantic, and confused. That day is a day that no one will ever forget. That day is also the day that your whole life changed. People viewed you differently, frowned upon you, and were always skeptical about your intentions and actions. We hope that you can forgive us, and accept our money and apologies.
~The U.S. government

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On the 7th of December, 1941, The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and we locked you up in internment camps were you went through horrible things. You were stripped from your freedoms and you lost all of your valuables. We, the Congress of the U.S.A, apologize for the cruel things we have done to you. Discrimination against foreigners has been a problem with us since the beginning of our nation, and we are sorry for it. We are sorry for making you leave your homes.Though you may not forgive us, here is $20,000 as an apology. I hope you have it in your heart to forgive us.
Sincerely,

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On the 7th of December , 1941, the choice us American put in place was one of our most terrible mistake we have ever done. All Americans truly feel sorry about the  stripping away your personal freedom and taking all of your valuables and land. Our violent decision was completely wrong we need to make up for that in a nice way we are proudly offer ever
Japanese-American 20,000$ as and apology ever though this can not full show our sorry towards you in words, we hope to find your forgiveness
Sincerely,.
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This site includes a very detailed description of the events leading up to the relocation, the daily life in the relocation camps, and violence the Japanese experienced in the centers.

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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.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066

On February 19, 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 with the intention of preventing espionage on American shores.

Military zones were created in California, Washington and Oregon-states with a large population of Japanese Americans-and Roosevelt's executive order commanded the relocation of Americans of Japanese ancestry.

Executive Order 9066 affected the lives about 117,000 people-the majority of whom were American citizens.

Canada soon followed suit, relocating 21,000 of its Japanese residents from its west coast. Mexico enacted its own version, and eventually 2,264 more people of Japanese descent were removed from Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina to the United States.

ANTI-JAPANESE ACTIVITY

Weeks before the order, the Navy removed citizens of Japanese descent from Terminal Island near the Port of Los Angeles.

On December 7, 1941, just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded-up 1,291 Japanese community and religious leaders, arresting them without evidence and freezing their assets.

In January, the arrestees were transferred to facilities in Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota, many unable to inform their families and most remaining for the duration of the war.

Concurrently, the FBI searched the private homes of thousands of Japanese residents on the West Coast, seizing items considered contraband.

One-third of Hawaii's population was of Japanese descent. In a panic, some politicians called for their mass incarceration. Japanese-owned fishing boats were impounded.

Some Japanese residents were arrested and 1,500 people-one percent of the Japanese population in Hawaii-were sent to camps on the U.S. mainland.

JOHN DEWITT

Lt. General John L. DeWitt, leader of the Western Defense Command, believed that the civilian population needed to be taken control of to prevent a repeat of Pearl Harbor.

To argue his case, DeWitt prepared a report filled with known falsehoods, such as examples of sabotage that were later revealed to be the result of cattle damaging power lines.

DeWitt suggested the creation of the military zones and Japanese detainment to Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Attorney General Francis Biddle. His original plan included Italians and Germans, though the idea of rounding-up European-descent Americans was not as popular.

At Congressional hearings in February 1942, a majority of the testimonies, including those from California Governor Culbert L. Olson and State Attorney General Earl Warren, declared that all Japanese should be removed.

Biddle pleaded with the president that mass evacuation of citizens was not required, preferring smaller, more targeted security measures. Regardless, Roosevelt signed the order.

WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY

After much organizational chaos, about 15,000 Japanese Americans willingly moved out of prohibited areas. Inland state citizens were not keen for new Japanese residents, and they were met with racist resistance.

Ten state governors voiced opposition, fearing the Japanese might never leave, and demanded they be locked up if the states were forced to accept them.

A civilian organization called the War Relocation Authority was set up in March 1942 to administer the plan, with Milton S. Eisenhower, from the Department of Agriculture, to lead it. Eisenhower only lasted until June 1942, resigning in protest over what he characterized as incarcerating innocent citizens.

RELOCATION TO ASSEMBLY CENTERS

Army-directed evacuations began on March 24. People had six days notice to dispose of their belongings other than what they could carry.

Anyone who was at least 1/16th Japanese was evacuated, including 17,000 children under 10, as well as several thousand elderly and handicapped.

Japanese Americans reported to centers near their homes. From there they were transported to a relocation center where they might live for months before transfer to a permanent wartime residence.

These centers were located in remote areas, often reconfigured fairgrounds and racetracks featuring buildings not meant for human habitation, like horse stalls or cow sheds, that had been converted for that purpose. In Portland, Oregon, 3,000 people stayed in the livestock pavilion the Pacific International Livestock Exposition Facilities.

The Santa Anita Assembly Center, just several miles northeast of Los Angeles, was a de-facto city with 18,000 interred, 8,500 of whom lived in stables. Food shortages and substandard sanitation were prevalent in these facilities.

LIFE IN ASSEMBLY CENTERS

Assembly centers offered work to detainees with the policy that they should not be paid more than an Army private. Jobs ranged from doctors to teachers to laborers and mechanics. A couple of assembly centers were the sites of camouflage net factories, which provided work.

There were opportunities for farm work during a labor shortage, and over 1,000 internees were sent to other states to do seasonal farm work. Over 4,000 internees were allowed to leave to attend college.

RELOCATION CENTERS

There were a total of 10 permanent housing camps called Relocation Centers. Typically some form of barracks, several families were housed together, with communal eating areas. Residents that were designated as dissidents went to a special camp in Tule Lake, California.

Two relocation centers in Arizona were located on Indian reservations, despite the protests of tribal councils, who were overruled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Each relocation center was its own town, featuring schools, post offices and work facilities, as well as farmland for growing food and keeping livestock, all surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers.

Net factories offered work at several relocation centers. One housed a naval ship model factory. There were also factories in different centers that manufactured items for use in other centers, including garments, mattresses and cabinets. Several centers had agricultural processing plants.

VIOLENCE IN RELOCATION CENTERS

Violence occasionally occurred in centers. In Lordsburg, New Mexico, internees were delivered by trains and marched two miles at night to the camp.

An elderly man attempted to flee and was shot and killed. After settling in, at least two men were shot and killed while trying to escape.

On August 4, 1942, a riot broke out in the Santa Anita facility, the result of anger about insufficient rations and overcrowding. At Manzanar, California, tensions resulted in the beating of a Japanese American Citizens League member by six masked men. Fearing a riot, police tear-gassed crowds, and one man was killed by police.

At the Topaz Relocation Center, a man was shot and killed by military police for going too near the perimeter. Two months later, a couple was shot at for the same reason.

In 1943, a riot broke out at Tule Lake following an accidental death. Tear gas was dispersed, and martial law declared until agreements were reached.

MITSUYE ENDO

The internment camps ended in 1945 following a Supreme Court decision.

In Endo v. the United States, it was ruled that the War Relocation Authority "has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure."

The case was brought on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, the daughter of Japanese immigrants from Sacramento, CA. After filing a habeas corpus petition, the government offered to free her, but Endo refused, wanting her case to address the entire issue of Japanese internment.

Two years later, the Supreme Court made the decision, but gave Roosevelt the chance to begin camp closures before the announcement. One day after Roosevelt made his announcement, the Supreme Court revealed its decision.

The last Japanese internment camp closed in March 1946.

SOURCES

Japanese Relocation During World War II. National Archives.
Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites. J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord and R. Lord.
Lordsburg Internment POW Camp. Historical Society of New Mexico.
Smithsonian Institute.

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Japanese Relocation 1943 War Propaganda Video

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1943 U.S. government-produced film "Japanese Relocation" addresses relocation camps