Japanese Internment camps
The things you don't know
Japanese internment camps
Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. They were suspected of being loyal to their ancestry land over the United States and thus being relocated to concentration camps. These camps were commercialized by the U.S as a quality and excellent place to live; they weren't telling us the truth.
Japanese keep moving
The U.S made all of the non Japanese Americam citizens feel that the Japanese Americans were aliens and that they were the bad guys. An example of this was a cartoon we watched in class that showed Japanese men as the Vilan compared to the American man.
Letter of eviction
When the Japanese Americans were instructed to pack their belongings, they read these signs around town that pretty much stated they were being kicked out of their homes. This is a similar sign to the one that the mother in the book reads.
Happy children
These two children are pictured smiling at a camp in Utah. This photo does not portray how the kids were really treated and how they really felt.
What we all thought was true
A picture like the one pictured on the left is what people assumed the internment camps created; joy. The problem was that Americans were never exposed to the pictures that portrayed the bad things that the camps actually were like