The Japanese Internment Camp

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This paper discusses some background of the Japanese internment of World War II and the impact that the internment had on the American-Japanese population as well as the Japanese nation as a whole. The paper puts particular emphasis on the internees of the Minidoka Camp of South Central Idaho.

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"To fully understand the relocation of Japanese Americans one must understand how these people first came to this foreign land, and how later as they prospered, they came to be the recipients of racial prejudice from their white neighbors. The Japanese first came to America seeking their fortunes. Many worked as itinerate laborers with Californian fruit and Hawaiian sugar cane. As they continued to live in their new land, however, they eventually became businessmen, fishermen, and farmers themselves. In fact, by 1940 the Japanese Americans, despite discriminatory laws, owned 4% of the farmland in California. In 1920, twenty years earlier, they had already brought in 10% of California's agricultural production. "

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