United States Japanese Internment Camps 1942

During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the detainees were United States citizens. These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam, the Philippines, and Wake Island in December 1941. Before the war, about 127,000 Japanese Americans lived in the continental United States, of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii (then under martial law), where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.

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Here is an official pamphlet given out to the public detailing the relocation of Japanese Americans. The location marked on this pamphlet is San Francisco, which is the place marked out on the map. An interesting aspect of this pamphlet is the font of the words. The largest word on it is “JAPANESE.” Its purpose is twofold: to call out the importance of the subject, which in this case would be the Japanese, and to humiliate the subject to the general public. Beside the word "Japanese" are the dates and location, a time and a place.