Japanese Concentration Camps in America

World War II all minorities were struggling with racial tension, but none were treated like the Japanese. Most were citizens but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor panic and paranoia swept across the nation. This caused people to believe rumors that Japanese Americans were plotting to sabotage ships and poison vegetables. This caused the War Department to order an evacuation of Japanese from Hawaii. This order was not carried out because Japanese people accounted from too much of the population and forcing them out would destroy the economy of Hawaii. However they still ordered the internment of 1444 Japanese Americans, about 1% of the population. On the west coast however Japanese accounted for only 1% of the population so internment was not resisted. On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed an order to send all Japanese on the west coast to internment camps. Afterward the military started gathering about 110,000 Japanese to take to internment camps. No charges were ever filed, no evidence of Japanese American plans against America were ever found.

-Spencer