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4 days ago · Records related to Japanese Americans and the U.S. military during World War II reveal a complicated and often contradictory relationship.
4 days ago · Records at the National Archives offer a valuable resource for researchers seeking to explore these postwar struggles as Nikkei (Japanese The end of World War II and closing of the camps did not lead to an immediate return to normal life for the formerly incarcerated.
4 days ago · Records at the National Archives—Rocky Mountain Region Relating to the Japanese American Internment Experience, 2008 The Decision to Evacuate the Japanese from the Pacific Coast An extensive and detailed army analysis by Stetson Conn of the circumstances surrounding the internment of Japanese-Americans.
4 days ago · World War II Japanese American Incarceration: Pre-war Surveillance and Planning. Decades before Executive Order 9066 paved the way for mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, the U.S. government targeted Japanese American communities for surveillance. Intelligence reports on communities in Hawai'i (sugar strikers) and California (fishermen ...
4 days ago · U.S. Army Defense Commands (World War II) (Record Group 499) Western Defense Command (WDC) and Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) records concern the policy, administration and the public reaction to the program to forcibly remove Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
4 days ago · Background to the Records. Military control of the Western Defense Command (WDC) Area (Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) was established in March 1942 by Executive Order 9066. The WDC at first tried to implement a “voluntary evacuation” of Japanese Americans.
4 days ago · Summary: Contending that they were kidnapped by U.S. military police, Japanese Peruvians filed test suits (writs of habeas corpus) in 1946 to prevent deportation to Japan. The federal government agreed to suspend expulsion, reclassified them as resident aliens and allowed them to stay in the United States.
