Japanese-American Internment Camps

Introduction

It was 7th December of 1941, when the Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor, all the citizens of the United States were feared of attacked, and this war seized the whole country. Some of the representatives insert the pressure on the president of that time Roosevelt to show the action against those Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor, descent in the United States.

In 1942, Roosevelt passed an ordinance number 9066, it was an Executive Order. Under such terms, most of people like some of 120,000 whose lives were descent in the United States, and they were homeless, removed from their homes, and took shelters in internment camps. Critics argue that it does not adequately describe the real nature of these fields, perimeter fencing, surveillance by armed guards and isolated location outside the population area. Have been documented cases where the guards fired on prisoners attempting to cross the fences (Campos, 2002 793). The conditions correspond to what is generally understood as an Internment camp.

The exact description of the fields is under discussion between the sources and historians, official references designate them as "internment camps". Proponents of the measure prefer the name of relocation camps; others speak of them as detention camps or Internment camp. The defense argues that the term relocation that was the official name, the fields were no prisons, and nearly one quarter of the residents eventually received permission to settle outside the camps, although they are barred from the exclusion zone in the West Coast of the United States, unless a family supports them exceptionally responsible non-Japanese, or a government agency.

Post-war

The U.S. government provides compensation to victims since 1951, but he would apologize only in 1988, claiming that the Internment of prisoners due to "racial prejudice, war hysteria and failure of political leadership." President Ronald Reagan also signed a document, which offered 20 thousand U.S. dollars to the surviving victims. During the war, many Americans of Japanese descent lost all their possessions and their savings were confiscated by the government, to be considered "enemy property". It is estimated that lost 400 million U.S. dollars in this way, but after the war, the government only returned $ 40 million. However, these returns occurred many years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. For customers, Yokohama Specie Bank, Japan-American bank, depositors did not receive their savings until 1969, when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, stating that the return must be done without interest and pre-war change (Calvacoressi, 2001 85).

Cooperation in Latin America

There were agreements with most Latin American countries (except Argentina, Paraguay and Chile) so that they send some of their citizens of Japanese descent to camps in the U.S. and Panama, or apply their own internship programs. Some of these people were just of Japanese descent and had never been to Japan. In 2264 total of Peru, (1,800), Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela were initially taken to Internment  camps in the U.S. and Panama and from ...