Japanese Internment

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This paper discusses the internment of Americans of Japanese descent in America in the wake of the attack at Pearl Harbor. The paper discusses the actions that the American government took against Japanese-Americans during World War Two and concludes with how the government in 1990 acknowledged the injustices that were performed and attempted to compensate the families of those Japanese-Americans who were affected.

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"While today some Americans of Japanese descent criticize those who were interred for not showing any resistance, the fact was that the government actions could be quite terrifying. They raided Japanese homes, often without search warrants, under wartime rules that suspended some civil liberties, with some writers describing it as a "reign of terror" (Daniels, p. 206). On page 207, Daniels describes such a search of a home when only a young, teenaged girl was home. They went through the house upturning mattresses and emptying drawers, and then questioned the young girl. Since they found nothing, they did not arrest her, but such actions spread tremendous fear through Japanese-American communities."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Daniels, Roger. 1988. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. University of Washington Press, 1988. Pipes, Daniel. 2004. "Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters." New York Sun, Dec. 28. Staff writers. No date. ""Internment of San Francisco Japanese/." The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. Accesed via the Internet 5/24/06. <http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html> Tateishi, John. 2003. ""JACL Lauds CA State Assembly's Unanimous Vote Condemning Rep. Howard Coble's Insulting, Inflammatory and Inaccurate Comments on Internment." May 20. Accessed via the Internet 5/24/06. <http://www.jacl.org/current_prs/030520.html> Thompson, Herb. 2005. "Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their World War II Incarceration." Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 35.

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