THE CAMPS EXPERIENCE
Part I:
*Temporary Detention Centers*
1.Were Japanese Americans given adequate care and accommodations as they were rounded up? Were they given assurances and clear information on what the future held for them?
The Japanese Americans were removed to Assembly Centers while they boarded trucks, buses, and trains. A lot of the families of Japanese Americans lived in unsanitary cases. However, in prison, the inmates stood in line for meals, latrines, supplies, and services. Nutritionally,the meals that they served were inadequate.
The Japanese Americans were removed to Assembly Centers while they boarded trucks, buses, and trains. A lot of the families of Japanese Americans lived in unsanitary cases. However, in prison, the inmates stood in line for meals, latrines, supplies, and services. Nutritionally,the meals that they served were inadequate.
*Permanent WRA Camps*
2.Discuss the claim by the U.S. Government that the camps were for the protection of Japanese Americans. Were the barbed wire fences and guard towers meant to keep vigilantes out or Japanese American inmates in?
The army removed all of the inmates from fifteen temporary camps to ten permanent War Relocation Authority camps under the control of the Department of the Interior. Yes, the barbed wire fences and the guard towers are meant to keep the Japanese American inmates in.
*Camp Life*
3.Were the camps "resettlement communities, "or prisons? What's the differences between the two?
These camps were prisons.The differences between the two are that resettlement communities included single rooms without any furniture but they had cots and a pot-bellied stove. Prisons are buildings which contain cells because they lock people up for crimes that they committed. In the cells they have a bed or beds for the person or people that's locked inside of the cell.
4.Did the War Relocation Authority take measures to protect family life and privacy?
Yes, the War Relocation Authority went out of their way so that they can provide recreational activity knowing that monotony of camp life would set off violence among regret.
*Questions of Loyalty*
5.How did Japanese Americans respond after being incarcerated without due process of law, to questions asking them whether or not they were unquestioningly loyal to this country?
The Nisei were the second-generation in U.S, but were born Japanese Americans.The Nisei were outraged. The citizen's loyalty was never questioned, yet the Nisei were asked to prove theirs.However,should their parents
answer "no" to both questions, or "yes" on their part,but they knew it would mean certain physical and emotional separation from them.
*Tule Lake Segregation*
6.Were those who answered "no" to the loyalty questions clearly "disloyal"or were they voicing discontent with their treatment?
There were different reason to why some people in the camps answered''no''to both of the questions and they were labeled as disloyal.
*Draft Resisters*
7.Why did these young men resist being drafted into the military? Write or improvise a conversation between two bothers in an internment camp who make two different opposing decisions on the draft: one enlists, the other resists. What are their points of agreement,if any? How do they differ?Is one brother more patriotic than the other?
Some Nisei men resisted the draft because their constitutional
rights and the people of their family had been violated in the
incarceration.It begins with one brother that wanted to have freedom and to get away from everything dealing with the military.Then the other brother wants to sign up for the military so he can serve for our country. The difference is that one brother wants to be a part of the military and the other brother wants nothing to do with being a part of the military and to have his own freedom/regulations.Yes,one brother is more patriotic than the other.
*Military Services*
8.What did it take to fight for a country that kept your family interned behind barbed wire?
Numerous of Nisei's left the barbed wire confines so they could volunteer for the Army. A lot of people volunteered to prove their loyalty in response
to the urgings of the Army and the Japanese American Citizens League.Several thousands of people volunteered and they fought brilliantly overseas in Europe and dealt with drastic casualties.
Part II:
1.How do we prevent the injustice of internment from happening again?
Perhaps it starts with learning about this historic mistake, as well as working to eliminate the causes for continuing racial prejudice today. We have to look upon and cancel out the issues of injustice.
Perhaps it starts with learning about this historic mistake, as well as working to eliminate the causes for continuing racial prejudice today. We have to look upon and cancel out the issues of injustice.
2.What do you think? What is your responsibility? What can you do as one individual?
Your voice and actions can be an important part not only of preventing the gross injustice of internment from happening again, but also preventing the other negative effects of racial hatred and prejudice.My responsibility is not to discriminate against others.It's not right to judge one another by ones race.We should have the same rights as others.It shouldn't be affected by the color of someone's skin.
Part III:
Editor Roy Takeno reading a copy of the
newspaper office at the Manzanar
War Relocation Center
Photographer: Ansel Adams
People standing outside of Catholic Church at Manzanar
Relocation Center in California
Photographer: Ansel Adams
Standing on the step at the entrance of a dwelling, left to right:
Louise Tami Nakamura, holding the hand of Mrs. Naguchi,
and Joyce Yuki Nakamura
Photographer: Ansel Adams
Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, mother Frances Yokoyama, baby Fukomoto,
Photographer: Ansel Adams
Mrs. Ryie Yoshizawa is an instructor and is standing in front of class of
women students and one woman in foreground with dressmaker's dummy
Photographer: Ansel Adams
