Conditions in Japanese Concentration Camps

It's obvious that this deals with the internments camps, this photo showing how the barracks were laid out.

This is wrong. They did not have any choice. The area was declared a military zone and the government had all the power. They could have tried to resist, I guess, but that would have proven quite healthy for them.

This was the type of attitude in the West Coast area at the time.

This was the event that set off the internment process.

What it all eventually led to.

In many ways it was worse. The camps were located in either arid environments or in swampland. There was considerable heat. No running water in the rooms where they stayed. Barbed wire all around along with soldiers with guns. Curfew, and so on.

This is correct if you're talking about the very start of the process, but as time went on students were allowed to go to schools outside the camp. Many internees ended working on farms then returning to the camp. People were eventually allowed to settle elsewhere as long as it wasn't near the West Coast and they could prove they had a job waiting.

The housing indeed was poor. The food was adequate but not as good as they would have had in their own homes.

Some would also have died from sickness outside the camps, though.

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Here it is technically misleading. Two-thirds of those people who were interned were actually persons of Japanese ancestry who had been born in the United States and were thus United States citizens. Most of them considered America to be their country, not Japan.

??? It wasn't Ronald Reagan's judgment that led to the internment of the Japanese Americans, it was FDR's.



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