What was it like in a Japanese internment camp in America?

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. read more

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. read more

Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, in reaction to Pearl Harbor, people of Japanese descent were relocated to isolated camps. read more

Some saw the camps as concentration camps and a violation of the writ of Habeas Corpus, others though, saw Japanese internment camps as a necessary result of Pearl Harbor. At the end of the war some remained in the US and rebuilt their lives, others though were unforgiving and returned to Japan. read more