Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in the relocation camps?
After the event of Pearl Harbor, Americans felt threatened by
the Japanese-Americans. The Americans thought the
Japanese-Americans on the East coast had contact with their kind in
Japan and that they should cut that conact. They immedietly started
moving all Japanese-Americans to interment camps all over, but left
them the choice of either going to the camps, or going to Japan.
Not many moved back to Japan, feeling defient and angry. The
Japanese-Americans lived in their camp for under ten years, and
then where allowed to leave.