“Forced internment of Japanese Americans in the United States of America 1942-1945 (reasons, motives, and applications)”

Abstract

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led the American administration, after declaring war on Japan and entering World War II, to attempt to neutralize Americans of Japanese descent and Japanese residents who are largely present in the state of California in the American West. The security option was the most likely, as the President issued a The United States issued an executive order providing for the forced detention of Japanese Americans and residents of the same race in special camps and in specific states to avoid their influence on the internal security of the United States. Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States of America and the counter-propaganda used by some Americans who were harmed by the competition created by the presence of cheap Japanese labor played a role in mobilizing public opinion against their presence in the American West. Executive Order No. 9066, issued in February 1942, did not specify specific details for dealing with this issue, but executive officials were very radical in its application, as more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent and residents were detained, making this issue one of the inhumane legacies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Many successive US administrations have tried to deal with the issue of forced detention and explain the illegality of their decisions, which prompted some of them to compensate those affected psychologically and financially after more than four decades.