Japanese Internment Camps

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The American government responded to the mass hysteria that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by ordering more than 110,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to “internment camps” in California, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas. Many of the Japanese-Americans were born in America; their only connection to Japan was their ancestry. America was also at war with Germany and Italy, but there were no restrictions on Americans of German or Italian descent.

In 1988, the U.S. Congress apologized for the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans and provided monetary payments to the approximately 60,000 surviving Japanese-Americans who had been incarcerated during World War II.

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