Japanese American internment happened during World War II (1942-1945), when the United States government forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes and live in internment camps, Many of the people who were sent to internment camps had been born in the United States and were citizens of the United States.
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to about 1944, 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent no matter if they were American citizens would be interred in isolated camps. As a reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war.
The internment camps were located in many states, the first internment camp in operation was "Manzanar", located in southern California. Between 1942 and 1944-1945, an approximate total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans for varying periods of time in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas.
Similar events and evacuation orders also applied for Canada, nearly 23,000 Nikkei (People or Canadians with a Japanese decent), were sent to internment camps in the British Columbia. It was one of the greatest mass movement in the history of Canada.Though, families were generally kept together in the United States, Canada sent male evacuees to work in road camps or on "sugar beet" projects. Women and children Nikkei were forced to move to six inner British Columbia towns.
According to CBC.ca The Camps got closed down in 1944, two and a half years after signing Executive Order 9066, fourth term President Franklin D Roosevelt stopped the order. The last internment camp was closed by the near end of the end of 1945.
On Wiki it says "After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, lasting until 1949, Japanese Canadians were stripped of their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps and farms in the B.C. interior and across Canada, They were scared that the same thing might happen to them."
Internment of Japanese Americans. The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
A large portion of the deaths were from diseases, nearly 1,862 died of disease. The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority, Japanese Americans were housed in "tar paper covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind.", the conditions were bad so that is why people got diseases and died. The Japanese Internment camps was the worst threat to American Civil Rights in the 20th century.