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25 Apr 06

Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Some present-day supporters of the internment have argued that some Japanese-Americans were indeed disloyal, as seen by the approximately 20,000 Japanese Americans in Japan at the start of the war who joined the Japanese war effort, hundreds joining the Japanese Army. Critics of this viewpoint note that it seems unlikely that they had any choice other than to be conscripted into the Japanese army, given that the United States had already classified all people of Japanese ancestry as "enemy aliens."
  • "I have since deeply regretted the removal order and my own testimony advocating it, because it was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens. Whenever I thought of the innocent little children who were torn from home, school friends and congenial surroundings, I was conscience-stricken."
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