Japanese internment
WWII detention camps
Japanese internment refers to the forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government confined over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry—most of them American citizens—in remote camps, citing wartime security concerns.
The policy is now widely regarded as a racist injustice.
Her grandmother rarely spoke about internment.
- Executive Order 9066Wartime internment authorization decree
- Pearl HarborHawaiian military port attacked 1941
- ManzanarWWII incarceration site
- Fourteenth AmendmentPost-Civil War constitutional addition
- racial discriminationPrejudice based on ethnicity
displacement · World War II · Fifth Amendment · family separation · oral histories · concentration camps · psychological trauma · wartime propaganda · exclusion zones · economic hardship · activism · memoirs · segregation · documentaries · historical fiction · art installations · museum exhibits
- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- Japanese InternmentExecutive Order 9066, relocation centers, forced relocation, mass detention, evacuation order
Japanese internmentfreedom of movement
Liberty to travel unimpeded
civil liberty · civil liberties · liberty · habeas corpus · due process
Japanese internmentminority rights
Safeguards for underrepresented populations
integration · inclusion · multiculturalism · tolerance · pluralism
Japanese internmentredress
Compensation for injury
reparations · equal protection · civil rights · formal apology · exoneration
Japanese, Japan, internment, intern, interned, interning, interns, internee, internees