Japanese Relocation Research Paper

CBA-Japanese Relocation
By:Kailey Olson Have you ever been taken away from your home? Japanese Relocation was a hard time for the Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor Attack.We thought that all the Japanese were informants or spies planning for another attack in the 1940’s.The internment camps were in Topaz,Utah,and Granada,Colorado. Many Japanese Americans got taken away from their families. My opinion on that is that we shouldn't have taken people away from their families and just worked with them to get the upper hand on Japan. After the bombing, there were posters all over the USA starting the evacuation of the Japanese. 127,000 Japanese Americans were relocated. “We don’t want you,all will be evacuated.” said the Government. All the Japanese Americans were all ready ashamed of what happened and the government was just making it worse. World War 1 veterans were sent to the camps too if they were of Japanese descent. (Digital
When they would go they were issued a small room and a hard mattress.They weren’t able to go outside and if they did, all they saw was barbed wire. There were letters sent back and forth between family members on the outside. One letter was from a young girl that was telling a family friend what life was like in the camp. Many people died in the camps because of the lack of food and care. The kids would sleep in old donkey stalls. Stalls would collapse because the roofs were made of clay. When they collapsed, they would kill the kids. One Man, by the name of Gordon Hirabayashi refused to comply with the relocation order.He was convicted with violating orders, and 90 days in jail. In 1980, Gordon challenged the courts and won. Making history, his case convinced the government to give a public apology. (The Washington Journey) This conflict was political, economic, cultural, sociological, and psychological.Conflict is when two people or more disagree on a topic that can be crucial to how things