Japanese Internment Camps By Gavin Sheffner
Moving to Internment Camps
Some families were told to get out and sell their house for very little to a white family. Most families did what they were told because they were scared. All they could bring with them are two bags full of clothes and whatever else they needed. Most Japanese Americans were living in California about (112,000) at the time. Anything suspicious found on the Japanese Americans property the fathers could be sent to South Dakota for questioning.
Eating
These camps had to fit about 9,400 people in each camp. I did research on how much food should a person have a day. The average intake for food is 4 pounds. If the Japanese Americans ate that much a day in they would be using 37,600 pounds of food a day. In a year they would have used 13,724,000 pound of food. They would later use over 50 million pounds of food in the internment camps. These mess halls held 250-300 people, before dinners some Japanese Americans would line up at the door waiting to eat.
Baseball in the Interment Camps
For fun they played baseball yes there were no fields on the inside. So they had to make them. This is Tetsou Furukawa he was a baseball player in Gila River who was on the baseball team. Before Japanese Americans were allowed to play in Major League Baseball, there were the Nebraska Nisei or (Second Generation) , the Tijuana Nippons, the San Fernando Aces, and the San Pedro Gophers, among others.
Seattle Debate
After WWII Seattle wasn't sure how to deal with the hatred on the Japanese. The sign says "No Japs Wanted". After that was spray painted they wanted to settle if Japanese Americans were able to live in Seattle. So they made newspapers with arguments and what people felt about the Japanese.