On December 7, 1941, the Japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. (Fremon 6) Right after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan. (Fremon 7) On February 19, 1942, as the U.S. fought the war they decided to issue Executive Order 9066. This order gave the military authority to exclude “any or all Japanese-Americas from designated area, including the California coast.” (Fremon 31) Racist attacks on the Japanese-Americans began escalating and the hated Japanese-Americans were hurriedly moved to the relocation camps the American government had prepared for them. Was this decision made by the American government justifiable?
The action to intern all Japanese-Americans was morally and legally wrong. On one hand, it could be argued that the U.S. government’s decision to place Japanese- Americans in relocation camps was justifiable given the atmosphere of public “hysteria”. The “sneak” attack on Pearl Harbor was a cruel one and the vast majority of the American public was angry. In addition, there was a possibility that there were spies and traitors who were working for Japan among the Japanese-Americans livi
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Fathers had to eat with other men and children had no choice but to eat with other children, making family conditions harsh. were actually American citizens, the U. In order for me to leave my children and their children an enduring legacy and a great faith in this country, I must appeal to you to pass Senator Inouye’s bill. ” (War Relocation Authority) I would like to illustrate in this report that treating citizens of the United States as not loyal based on their ethnicity alone was wrong. (Fremon 81)(Omata 249) Some Nisei were sent to Europe while others were sent to Asia to serve as translators and interpreters, among them my grandfather, for the American combat teams. She stated at the end of her testimony: “It will be 38 years since I was incarcerated in an internment camp. These atomic bombs marked the end of the Japanese Empire and World War II ended. After the war, JACL continued their fight against racism. (Fremon 57)
Since 1930, and especially during the war, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) had fought for fair treatment of Japanese in the U. Three days later another was dropped on the port of Nagasaki. More importantly, all of them were deprived of their due rights to process and equal protection of the laws as residents and citizens of the U. ” (The Japanese American Curriculum Project 8)(Omata 247)
The relocation and assembly centers were located in nine states but the evacuees were first taken to assembly centers since the relocation camps were not ready yet.
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