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Japanese Internment

By Maressa

  • When I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    When I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor The Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, without warning. The attack lasted 110 minutes and, 2,335 U.S men were killed. This attack brought the U.S. into WWII. I ran into the house when I heard the the booming noises and the sound of planes coming at me. I quickly looked outside my window , into the sky and saw planes pass me. It was the Japanese, and they looked ready to fight.

  • Treasury Department Siezes All Japanese Banks and Business

    Treasury Department Siezes All Japanese Banks and Business
    Japanese Banks and Business Immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the bank accounts of all immigrants born in Japan were frozen. All immigrants, however long they had been in the US, had to fill out a census of foreign assets in the United States. I didn't understand why the U.S. was doing this. I was an innocent citizen, so why did they have to freeze my bank account.

  • More Fear, Less Travel

    More Fear, Less Travel
    Japanese Camps After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear spread like wildfire across the country, and hysteria came along with it. An example of this fear, would be when Attorney General froze travel by all suspected "enemy" aliens, and ordered surrender of weapons. I feared whether the person next to me was one of them. I almost didn't want to get on the plane. Could he be part of another attack?

  • Executive Order No. 9066

    Executive Order No. 9066
    Japanese Camps After General DeWitt requested authorization to evacuate Japanese from the West Coast area, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066. This excluded anyone of Japanese ancestry from certain areas in the United States. I wish my eyes were blue, and round. My slanted eyes and dark skin keep me from the places that I should be with my family, whether I am innocent or not. Not all of us want war.

  • First Japanese Camps Begin

    First Japanese Camps Begin
    Japanese Camps On March 22, the first large contingent of Japanese and Japanese Americans moved from Los Angeles to the Manzanar temporary detention center operated by the army in the Ownes Valley of California. As a young Japanese American, I never expected my life to be this miserable. I came to America to thrive, but now I am stuck in a camp where nobody trusts me, due to another country's actions.