Japanese Internment Camps

This is a picture of The Japanese Internment camp in Millard County Ut, Topaz. The Japanese didn't have a lot of freedoms, but they were allowed to get married while in the internment camps.
This is the letter that pres. Clinton wrote

in Oct, 1, 993to the japanese saying that they were sorry about the camps 50 years after.

TOPAZ CAMP

This camp opened in September 11, 1942

and although many barracks as well as the schools were not completed. Japanese-americans from the San Francisco area were transported to Delta, Utah, by train. The population of the camp soon reached 8,000. Once located, some internees finished building their own barracks and other structures at the site. The internments of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII was one of the worst violations of civil rights in the history of the United Stated. the government and the US Army,

citing ''military necessity'', Locked up over 110,000 men, women, and children in 10 remote camps. These Americans were never convicted or enen charged with any crime! Yet were incarcerated for up to 4 years in prison camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.

Why Were the Camps Established?
Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of pearl harbor. More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.

''People are people; judge them as individuals, not by race, color, or creed.'' As said by Reiko Oshima Komoto in March 1997.

Click here to view a letter of some one who lived through the time.http://www.uwec.edu/geOGrApHY/Ivogeler/w188/life.htm

Click here to play a word search based on the internment camps.http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japaninternmentcampwordsearch.htm