Japanese Interment Camps
The truth behind these closed gates
The truth...
Americans portrayed Japanese-Americans as monsters following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They did this to justify the terrible ways in which the Japanese were treated. The Japanese-Americans were sent to war camps that the U.S. government portrayed as good places to live when in reality the Japanese were treated terribly in the camps. They were also racially discriminated against.
Propoganda used against the Japanese.
Americans used propoganda to portray the Japanese as terrorists and monsters. The Americans did this to make it seem as if they were doing right by the U.S. citizens in sending the Japanese to war camps. In reality, Japanses citizens were just typical citizens with no intention of harming the U.S. This image portrays the Japs as if their primary goal in life was to bomb the U.S. which is completely false
An average Japanese family living in the United States of America being sent to a war camp.
Contrasting the image of propoganda, Japanese families who were the complete opposite of the monsters they were portrayed as were sent to war camps because of their race even though they did not commit any crime against the U.S.
Another example of a typical Japanese family.
Yet again, this image helps to show that Japanese people were just average people who did not have intentions of being the terrorists they were depicted as.
An FBI agent searching through a Japanese family's home.
The FBI trashed and searched through countless Japanese homes trying to find traces of terrorism. The FBI did this for no patricular reason against Japanese family's who had done absolutely nothing wrong. Thus, the Americans were extremely unloyal towards Japanese citizens
Japanese men signing up to join the U.S. army.
Contrasting the image of the FBI searching through Japanese homes, Japanese citizens were loyal to the United States even though the U.S. was unloyal to the Japanese. This image proves Japanese peoples loyalty to America because they were signing up for the U.S. army. They were going to risk their lives for a country that did not trust and were unloyal to them.