Japanese Internment

Holding Japanese war prisoners during the Second World War has been discussed over time with the intention of solving the controversy of the justifications behind the imprisonment. As expected, war entails a lot of economic and political plays with both sides attempting to gain ground over the other party. However, the forced holding of people who had not even participated in the war is hard to justify. For many, the move was undemocratic and unfair. Additionally, little has been done to atone for the holding. This paper intends to discuss the consequences of the Japanese internment for the Japanese Americans that were held in the camps both economically and socially and the justifications given by the American government for holding them. THE HISTORY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JAPANESE INTERNMENTS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Historical Trends The World War II which occurred between 1941 and 1945 was a war between the Allied and the Axis powers in which the United States belonged to the former and Japan belonged to the later. In the late 1860’s Japan underwent speedy industrialisation that destroyed the available farming land in rural areas causing problems for a significant population of the country to consider moving to other countries such as Peru and the US to look for improved living conditions and work opportunities. At the beginning, the migrants were welcomed as migrants as they provided cheap farm labour for expanding plantations. Thus, by the time the Second World War began the Japanese had become citizens in…

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