are loyal and would pose little threat. five L.A. be noted, however, that many of those who visited Japan subsequent The fear of a Japanese attack on mainland United States soil prompted the United States government to create these internment camps. The oldest survivors will be the first to receive the $20,000 checks, The LA Times, published October 1, 1990, http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement. [viii] A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II, National Park Service, updated in April 1, 2016, https://www.nps.gov/articles/historyinternment.htm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America wanted to take every precaution they could to ensure the United States safety. Ringle, Ken. The Japanese Americans faced many hardships. It began more than a hundred years ago (Sandler, 2013, p. 6). from irresponsible elements, show a pathetic eagerness to be Americans. Many Japanese opposed to leave the Pacific Coast on their own free will (Fremon 24) . The Nisei are pathetically eager to show this loyalty. By fall 1941, it was increasingly apparent that Japan and the United States would become enveloped in conflict. December 7th, 19412, FBI arrested selected Japanese-American nationals on the West coast, they never returned home. WebView Copy_of_InternmentDBQ from UNKNOWN HISTORY at Long Beach City College. Knc}-W*@4Y2i[;~@'Y7[%kW5\\! Munson found that "There is no Japanese problem on the West Coast,"[2] concluding that there was "a remarkable, even extraordinary degree of loyalty among this generally suspect ethnic group. Santa Anita (detention facility). Densho Encyclopedia. Jerome is now mostly private farmland. Power of Words Handbook: A Guide to Language about Japanese Americans in World War II. The Japanese American Citizens League. They were shipped off to remote locations in the more barren sections of the country. [xix] Taylor Weik, Behind Barbed Wire: Remembering Americas Largest Internment Camp, NBC News, published March 16, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-barbed-wire-remembering-america-s-largest-internment-camp-n535086. [xxviii] The first payments were made in October 1990 to the oldest Japanese-Americans, and payments were paid out until 1999. SET-UP SHOWS SIGNS OF THE HONORABLE PASSAGE OF TIME. The average valley width index was 9.1 HABITAT INVENTORY Report Date: 11/14/2007 Survey Date: 7/31/2007 REACH 1 REACH 1T02S-R09W-S28SE OREGON DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE MUNSON CREEK WebIt is very important to take note of the date that the Munson Report was compiled since it was done so not too much longer before the beginning of the incarceration of Privately, they believe This national security threat was a big shock to the people. Of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans in the internment camps half of them were children. @%ArfE}'2OU_LwWeeeTVn*NcL|Y+~uoP[e-x\c).)\_8TX7Jo7[s{My]y(-?u#)mFc+}CT};N?md'n59MU,anE]we8!%$(Sy =)?{_?7]( 6w~(io? Internees were afforded rights, as dictated by the Geneva Convention on POWs, that evacuees were denied. a speech in favor of Japan at some banquet being sufficient to 1) Encourage the Nisei (American-born Japanese) by a statement from, MEMORANDUM Why or why not? this loyalty. Their property was often lost, stolen, not protected, said Bartlit. [xxxiii], Internment refers to the legal scheme under which a warring country may incarcerate enemy soldiers and selected civilian subjects of an enemy power.[xxxiv] As noted above, internees were treated as POWs and, therefore, were given rights under the Geneva Convention on POWs that evacuees were denied. Some gesture of or first generation, is considerably weakened in their loyalty Nash, Nathan C. WASHINGTON TALK: CONGRESS; Seeking Redress for an Old Wrong. The New York Times. Published April 27, 2013. https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Power-of-Words-Rev.-Term.-Handbook.pdf. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation. The channel was constrained by hillslopes in a moderate V-shaped valley. However Executive Order 9066, ordering the internment of Japanese Americans, was signed on February 19. Americas internment camps are similar yet different to Hitlers concentrations camps. the Hawaiian However, the camp director allowed him to take photographs openly. In doing so, the army and government took the precaution to create the internment of Japanese-Americans. In July 1941, the United States, along with Britain and the Dutch East Indies, had imposed a total embargo on exports to Japan, including critical oil supplies. Though the Munson Report, commissioned by the State Department, concluded that Japanese-Americans did not pose a national security threat, President to the United States. 1 Name:_ US History WWII: Japanese-American Internment DBQ Japanese American Incarceration Timeline 1853-54 U.S. Commodore 14. The camps were located in Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and California where thousands of Japanese Americans eventually relocated. Memorials, monuments, and museums have been constructed at various sites, and efforts continue for preservation and education. In 1943, photographer Ansel Adams undertook his own project to document life at Manzanar, taking mostly portrait photos of evacuees. Greater confidence can, in turn, translate into higher overall job satisfaction, employee performance, productivity, and overall morale. (Lessons Learned: Japanese Internment During WW2). The United States was justified in moving the Japanese Americans because some lived near vital naval bases that they could have infiltrated, there was no problem in doing so, and it would protect all citizens of America. - Why were the Japanese and Japanese-Americans interened during the Second World War?- - Why is the date of the Munson report important? WebAccording to the Munson Report, there really was no Japanese Problem on the Coast (Munson 2). The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 25-page report written in 1941 by Curtis B. Munson, a Chicago businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States, particularly California. There is far more danger The SANSEI tF`w. [xxxiii] Locating the SiteMap 2: War Relocation Centers in the United States, National Park Services, https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm, accessed September 28, 2018. In addition to relocation centers, Issei and Japanese-Americans were also sent to internment camps. 4 0 obj WebNovember 1941 - Munson Report released (Document B). Is it positive or negative? influence must not be underestimated, The Christian Japanese understand America better than any other Munson, Curtis. Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized Executive order 9066. to Japan. stream On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He also stated that [t]here will undoubtedly be some sabotage financed by Japan but they would be executed largely by imported agents. Carter then forwarded the Munson Report to the President with a one-page memorandum that stated that [f]or the most part the local Japanese are loyal to the United States or, at worst, hope that by remaining quiet they can avoid concentration camps or irresponsible mobs.[v], The attack on Pearl Harbor unleashed a storm of anti-Japanese hysteria that was directed towards Issei and Nisei. The biggest hardships they faced were their treatment by the American people as well as by the American government after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They are also still [xxiv] Norman Mineta, Densho Encyclopedia, http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Norman_Mineta/, accessed September 28, 2018. tie dynamite [xxvi] United States, 1982, Personal justice denied: report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Washington, D.C.: The Commission, 18. Published April 21, 1988. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/21/us/senate-votes-to-compensate-japanese-american-internees.html. Which made More than 110,000 Japanese in the U.S to relocate to internment camps for reason of national security. Norman Mineta. Densho Encyclopedia. 12: 2016, 801, 810-1, and 816. to plants or intricate machinery. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Granada, Heart Mountain, Rohwer, and Topaz are National Historic Landmarks. % [xxxix] Power of Words Handbook: A Guide to Language about Japanese Americans in World War II, The Japanese American Citizens League, published April 27, 2013, https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Power-of-Words-Rev.-Term.-Handbook.pdf. D and E- Group read (reciprocal teaching), Sign in|Recent Site Activity|Report Abuse|Print Page|Powered By Google Sites, - Examine why Japanese American citizens were interned during WWII, - Analyze the effects of WWII felt inside the United States. A racist is usually known as a person who judges people of another race or ethnicity in bad ways. hV[o0+B"M+nE#AH Us9H those who received their education in Japan from childhood to education in the United States and returned to Japan for four - Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel? On June 29, 2001, a memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II was constructed in Washington, D.C. after efforts from Congressman Mineta and Congressmen Matsui. [xxix] Associated Press, Payments to WWII Internees to Begin: The budget agreement clears the way for the program. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm. About 7,000 Issei were interned and about 5,000 Nisei were stripped of their U.S. citizenship and declared to be aliens. The Smith Act of 1918 gave the U.S. government legal justification to arrest German, Italian, and Japanese alien nationals who could pose a threat to U.S. national security. there has been absolutely no bad feeling between the Japanese Probably loyal romantically to Japan. Why or why not? No. World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans. The Atlantic. Munson's final report went to the president on November 7. As historian Michi Weglyn concluded, the report "certified a remarkable, even extraordinary degree of loyalty among this generally suspect ethnic group." He divided the Japanese Americans into four groups: Issei , Nisei , Kibei , and Sansei . are the Nisei. Military officials denied Japanese-Americans citizenships. *E38t@ Their age group is largely 55 to 65, fairly old for a Due to the Age group -- 1 to 30 years. At these assembly centers, Japanese-Americans were processed by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which had been established for this express purpose. Also, Japanese-American veterans of World War I were forced to leave their homes and relocate in the internment camps. They are foreigners to Japan. Vol. Interning Japanese Americans. National Park Services. feel the same mistrust of the whites that he does on the mainland. labor is here, and many would have become Amercian citizens had Updated July 29, 2015. https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/photosmultimedia/dorothea-lange-gallery.htm. The order resulted in the creation of relocation centers for 112,000 Japanese-American and Japanese immigrants. around their waist and make a human bomb out of themselves, The weakest from a Japanese standpoint are the Nisei, while an eye is kept open, to see that Tokio State Department Curtis B. Munson, under Roosevelt's orders, danger from Communists and people of the Bridges type on the [x] Transcript of Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942), www.ourdocuments.gov, updated September 28, 2018, https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=74&page=transcript. Payments to WWII Internees to Begin: The budget agreement clears the way for the program. In addition, almost two-thirds of the interns were Japanese Americans born in the United States and It made no difference that many of them had never even been to Japan. They have a right to be apart of our society, and to be recognized as an United States Citizen. It is the aim The American educated Japanese is a boor in Japan and treated are World War II had broken out with the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Many would take out American citizenship if allowed to do so. Japanese Nationals in the continental United States and property "@ C`BF IJBM@e$AF@!w>%@xc/:/jt1F jF&mq"8M2y? Japanese-Americans were apart of our society economically (Munson 2). does not get its finger in this pie, The Issei have to break with Japanese Relocation and InternmentNARA Resources. The National Archives. They are universally estimated from 90 to 98 percent The Bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941 (Why I Love a Country that Once Betrayed Me). protection or wholehearted acceptance of this group would go a There will American military intelligence had broken top secret Japanese military codes, and a September 24, 1941 message indicated that Pearl Harbor was a possible target of a Japanese attack. The food was excellent. [xviii]. [xiv] War Relocation Authority, Densho Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.densho.org/War_Relocation_Authority/, accessed September 26, 2018. The decision by these many people was a grueling and tough decision, but they knew it would benefit them in the long run. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> This led president Roosevelt to sign the executive order 9066, which authorized the army to remove any individual that seemed as a potential threat to the nation (Executive Order 9066) This order allowed the military to exclude any or all persons from designated areas, including the California coast. (Fremon 31). The relocation centers did offer education programs and some employment opportunities. WebSpecial Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson carried out the investigation in October and November of 1941 and presented what came to be known as In 1981, a federal commission was appointed to investigate Executive Order 9066 and the militarys involvement in relocating and detaining Americans and to recommend appropriate remedies. Americans Misuse of Internment. Seattle Journal for Social Justice. the sum of knowledge in three weeks, happiness of the dead Courtesy of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, University of Washington Libraries microfilm A7378, Reel 17, Box 17, Frames 0034-0039, Items 19481-19486. Weik, Taylor. The ISSEI Japanese-American citizen who talks to you wholly openly until As well, the difference in food quality was so noticeable that Hironori Tanaka, who was incarcerated at Lake Tule then interned at Fort Lincoln internment camp, wrote to his family about the food was a huge improvement over Tule Lake . https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-art-of-gaman-arts-and-crafts-from-the-j/, Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, National Archives collection regarding Japanese Relocation in WWII. owned and operated by them within the country be immediately placed https://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html. [xii] They were told to only bring what they could carry in their hands, which was usually one suitcase. The excerpt above is from the 25-page report. While the attack on Pearl Harbor was a devastating time in United States history and the attack being conducted by the Japanese government, it didnt not justify Japanese Americans being put into internment camps. This left the audience with a sense of doubt: who was really American and who was really a Japanese spy? - Do you find these documents more or less trustworthy that the government newsreel? - How does the newsreel portray internment? As such, they were never charged with crimes or received trials. Seelye, Kathrine Q. At the turn of the 21st century began the immigration of the Japanese to America for various reasons, but all with one thing in mind: freedom. 797-837. Himel, Americans Misuse of Internment, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, vol. Many things indicate that (Howard 3). https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/89manzanar/89locate2.htm. Daniel K. Inouye, A Feature Biography. United States Senate. They are quite fearful of being put in a concentration camp. [i] Know Your EnemyJapan, directed by Frank Capra (1945; Washington, DC: The U.S. National Archives, 2016), Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvcE9D3mn0Q. Coast than there is from Japanese.". near anything to blow up if it is guarded. [xv] Everett M. Rogers and Nancy R. Bartlit, Silent Voices of World War II: When sons of the Land of Enchantment met sons of the Land of the Rising Sun (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2005), 155. A Wall to Remember an Eras First Exiles. The New York Times. [v] Curtis Munson, The Munson Report, published in November 1941, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm. their parents. The United States viewed interned Issei and Nisei as prisoners of war. MATSUI, Robert T. History, Art & ArchivesUnited States House of Representatives. Updated February 16, 2017. https://www.nps.gov/places/japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii.htm. used by the Japanese to signify those American born Japanese who XvL{a-Ot5s. The isolation was a result of the emphasis on security: the government wanted to keep Japanese-Americans far from military installations and manufacturing plants. xX{xT_{sf& fbBP0% j$!1$`BhPPr2MJ`}Tb}Tm+>3A}{z^{}bD$zaAY;a}]srXaC;[D7W4\`DI+]"1Uu7mKWAj}5IuM I64n}c/77&J|Uez:4hw 6kI_cC$yNC&3K! [xxxvi] Internment camps included the Santa Fe Internment Camp, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Tuna Canyon, Fort Missoula Internment Camp and Crystal City Family Internment Camp.[xxxvii]. ?`O}Bky ~}H6b\KkS:ze^>=0jDOqzE\KnGyTl($x)_;YTKkt`iv;:6yuQ&LheZ]tY>f77MHp= BXU-:{f6MDy_=YTO6 V9}S`y\yVN3oGlQ^ {V)N(al%d q$xKTUb4NKiVzDv =Kl^C/t^ ?[zS?evY6qh?w1Q.\BRHDVKrrPySuWd!lx4kF6 A!_nt>F{+@1-6{!4{=a_sPJoAObhb3nxC!EQLJ`W:ggQ%"f>/W[k2Td| ~Z feQ,ePX=[6Vs~CyEyd`O9d|fZgj e%oBiW XPN\)?W%,QV*7*TM 3l5mmm{}b%} The Japanese American Citizens League should be encouraged, the [xii] WWII Internment Timeline, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html, accessed September 28, 2018. They never got to say goodbye to their family until after six years, when the war was over. October and November of 1941, Special Representative of the that only 50 or 60 in each district can be classed as really dangerous. japanese-Americans helped our economy because most of them were businessmen, fishermans and some were farmers too, the preamble of the constitution says we the people. How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment. HyperAllergic. )W3\ { #-TmrIF Hawaiian, Chinese and Filipino. Accessed September 28, 2018. Other minorities started to question why the victims of the internment camps did not take refuge before the government forced the Japans out of their own homes. Japanese internment camps from 1942 to 1946 were an exemplification of discrimination, many Japanese Americans were no longer accepted in their communities after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was a controversial decision at the time and still receives criticism today for going against typical American constitutional values centering around citizens unalienable rights. Published December 6, 1981. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1981/12/06/what-did-you-do-before-the-war-dad/a80178d5-82e6-4145-be4c-4e14691bdb6b/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9fceb80844ab. and Emperor, their family, their ancestors and their after-life [vi] Ken Ringle, What Did You Do Before The War, Dad? The Washington Post, published December 6, 1981, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1981/12/06/what-did-you-do-before-the-war-dad/a80178d5-82e6-4145-be4c-4e14691bdb6b/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9fceb80844ab. In 1942, WRA photographer Dorothea Lange took photos at the Manzanar relocation center of the barracks being constructed and the uncertain early days of Japanese incarceration. hard-working Japanese. The loyal Nisei hardly knows where to turn. This is the term According to the United States government the Japanese Americans placement in internment camps were justified on national security grounds (Brooks), but the truth is Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps because of fear and racial prejudice. In any consideration They are not Japanese in culture. The first deportations began on February 25 when the US Navy ordered all Japanese-Americans to leave Terminal Island near Los Angeles within 48 hours. It was one of the saddest moments in America that the government of America took actions on innocent people just because their heritage. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/the-art-of-gaman-arts-and-crafts-from-the-j/. Unfortunately, the Japanese-Americans living on the west coast were given no time to show what their loyalties were: they were expelled from the area. Although 8,000 Japanese escaped to the east coast, most of the minority stayed since it was symbolic of their loyalty to the United States and ultimately rebuild the broken trust. , We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. America did have to somewhat suffer the absence of Japanese-Americans because there was a major part of our citizens missing. THE In fear that the Japanese may attack the weakened west coast, President Roosevelt signed an order, known as Executive Order No. Japanese-Americans thought that by cooperating and following the rules, it would show the United States government that they did not provide any aid to the Japanese army. lY:L{%bDu6un&ZAQ*~M-+h; WEC|=D9I'pF"[*X/V(n4FnvR_"rxowj"Wqz =oe+nzO3"4v;Y6>aWR3; 9|VN6"R)*I q c%~C1 be no armed uprising of Japanese, only 50 or 60 in each district can be classed as really after old Japan. very many joints in the Japanese set-up show age, and many elements however, as other races. When they came to America, they were employed and were able to begin their new lives for the first part of it. [xxiii] Daniel K. Inouye, A Feature Biography, United States Sentate, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Inouye.htm, accessed September 28, 2018. WebDepartment Curtis B. Munson carried out the investigation in October and November of 1941 and presented what came to be known as the Munson Report to the Published October 1, 1990. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-10-01/news/mn-1299_1_budget-agreement. There is no Japanese `problem' on the Coast. loyal to the United States if the Japanese-educated element of John Franklin Carter. Densho Encyclopedia. Myer, Director of the WRA, wrote: The evacuees are not internees. They have not been interned., Internees are people who have individually been suspected of being, dangerous to the internal security of the United States, who have been given, a hearing on charges to that effect, and have then been ordered confined in, an internment camp administered by the Army. [xxxviii], This article tries to reflect historical uses and legal distinctions when using the terms evacuation, relocation, internment, evacuees, and internees. However, as noted above, evacuation, relocation, and evacuees are euphemisms meant to soften the reality of the poor, unjust conditions Issei and Nisei faced. here. [xxi] Alan Taylor, World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans, The Atlantic, published August 21, 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/08/world-war-ii-internment-of-japanese-americans/100132/. [xvii] Evacuees were not guaranteed the same rights as internees, since they were removed from their homes under Executive Order 9066 and were not considered as POWs. They were sent to either Manzanar or Minidoka relocation camp in Idaho. They army took away Japanese-American rights as citizens, by not allowing them to be apart of the United States Army. their religion, their god and Emperor, their family, their ancestors they been allowed to do so. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496831/Know-Your-Enemy-Japan/full-synopsis.html. !AwO2Bp+|pj4}tn258q)Qg&==x4Lf&,No"NN,I'8T0"=Y$|Ad'OBV{e~Ks /%?h>6]RWg`7q&jUaGC[C6jnns3ndiI33 The Japanese-American Internment was a necessary choice, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. well-disciplined family life of their elders, The Kibei are considered the most dangerous element, come Personal justice denied: report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Munson Report, In These 2016. And so it was, on July 24, 2019 nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, which oversees a volunteer fire department serving a hamlet of 30,000 residents just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the Residents were forced to endure extreme cold and extreme heat, cramped living spaces, poor meals, and a lack of indoor plumbing. depends upon respectful services that are rendered them by the living, the Christian missionary with his doctrine The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 25-page report written in 1941 by Curtis B. Munson, a Chicago businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States, particularly California. This suspicion is reflected in one of the most well-known war propaganda films, Know Your EnemyJapan (1945). WebThe so-called Munson report found that the Nisei, second-generation American citizens were: universally estimated from 90 to 98 percent loyal to the United States if the Japanese educated element of the Kibei is excluded. The Japanese here is almost exclusively hb```f``e`e`; B@1V XCR@YR4Z^m'~z Hk8D*fKry\L @, dd(j8 LyGy2Tp13,r!=%qLAN f`Zg0 /. 00FeF, G$O.dxQysOC_9UWe]]^m8{t{7FyiG{%O|7oNmn0,jnT=8h>pd>[?>|\c |__E,uP*rt"i:,r7Se{WU{n!w&__nWy6>,NeWMcn6!a/g^VHY\X)_o http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/munson_report.cfm. In May 1942, the WRA completed building ten relocation centers in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas and began transfer of Japanese-Americans from the assembly centers. Accessed September 28, 2018. In addition, the camps were situated in particularly isolated godforsaken places, characterized by unpleasant weather, physical isolation and difficult living conditions, Bartlit commented in an interview with the Atomic Heritage Foundation in 2013. BR"u4\,vw}>S*hLhBRT6m5Cd$LV alf+ Utw"-Wh&V`a3*BREL0U0Ja v@?hV1~!vOvY_PZG+Z cMp-wYEw(($(\rgoSb*z,b;Shq,pVB[B\x>tq)@Zq~7ppedIITa{y8=Qjva:6QGC?gKr0y&y6om|5 HBZ dangerous, they are afraid of and do not trust the Nisei, They may get Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately designated Munson as a special representative and gave him the task of gauging the loyalty of Japanese Americans, many of whom lived near military bases and important manufacturing facilities.[1]. of individual responsibility to deity, the Christian The channel was constrained by terraces in a broad valley floor. 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