Japanese American Internment Camps Explained 

My grandfather was in the Arizona national guard during the war, his job was perimeter guard at an internment camp. He said it was the most horrible and painful thing he had ever done, but he didn’t know what he could do about it. He told me it was up to my generation to make sure nothing like that would ever happen again.

I hate it that it took the government over 35 years just to realize they’ve made a constitutional mistake and the damages are already been done

You may remember them being called "internment camps," but let's call them what they were: "concentration camps." Here is my latest Story Time with Mr. Beat video. If you like it, please share.

I know this video is 9 years old at the time of my comment, but I really feel like it's worth mentioning that the 442nd Regiment (A unit made up entirely of Japanese Americans during WW2) is the most decorated military unit in the history of the United States.

"Fear robs us of reason, out of fear we commit terrible atrocities and call them acts of self-preservation"

You only mentioned very briefly the Japanese Americans who served in the The 442nd Infantry Regiment in World War 2. It was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the US military.

If you ever thought that the "single-bullet theory" proposed by the Warren Commission was illogical, the Commission was headed by a man who would have thought that it was logical to believe that a person without a police record would be more likely to commit a crime in the future than a person with a police record. According to the Wikipedia article on Earl Warren: - Warren further argued that the complete lack of disloyal acts among Japanese Americans in California to date indicated that they intended to commit such acts in the future.

The camps were unjust and not a great idea. But I hate when people say they were for mass execution. Surprising the Japanese mad the best of it by making communities and schools. But the camps are a disappointing look on us.

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well some Japanese Americans served in ww2 in the 442nd most legendary unit in ww2

"A measly $5" was about $80 back then. That was more than an Army sergeant's pay.

$5 May not sound like much but back then it was worth $88.51 adjusted for inflation.

$5 a day wasnt measly, it was about $80 in today's money. Privates made that amount in a month.

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This is very overlooked when discussing WW2

Kinda weird seeing such an early vid by Mr. Beat show up. I've been subbed for 3 years and never seen this

My mom and I went to the one in topaz Utah for my 11th birthday. It is devastating.

Gotta ask: did you do a video on the UK's camps for Germanic people, or is this strictly a america only thing?

I grew up in California, and some neighbors were victims of this. Here in Hawaii less AJAs were "interned", out in the country in Honouliuli, and at Sand Island near Honolulu, the old immigration station. There were no attempts at sabotage here, though martial law fueled the rumor mill with nitrous.

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I went to a traveling WWII museum, it was specifically on the treatment of the Jewish population during that time around the world. The museum was insane. There was so much I didn't accurately understand about that time in history. That was the first time I learned my state housed 1.400 Japanese Americans while also being a German/Japanese POW camp. We hide the stupidest things from the next generations, dooming ourselves to repeat history.

Let's not forget that Hawaii was not a state yet then. The US government couldn't just order anything there. The reason the PH attack was so notable was it was committed against a US Naval Yard. Not US soil per se.

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Why didn't you talk about the Niihau incident it was one of the main reasons for the order

I’m half Japanese and have lived in Japan my whole life. Although I side with China, Korea(both north and south), Philippines, etc over Japan about WW2, I do live with most people who buys the narrative from Japan. For example, the comfort women were mostly voluntary and were done so the families of the women could have more money and that the Nanking massacre is framed as an incident in Japan. I don’t know the specifics and I want to know if you’re going to make a video about it. If you don’t want to, I understand since it’s very controversial and from what I heard there aren’t many documents about it so it’s hard to make a video about it.

I think that the terms "internment camps" and "concentration camps" are equally valid and I just can't see where using one in place of the other is really any big deal. Further, no mention of Japanese wartime atrocities and passing mention of Japanese-American volunteering to fight for America in WWII in this video is acceptable because it's not what the video is about - it's about the internment of innocent people based on their ethnic origin. Period. Another solid job, Mr. Beat!

I know there was a camp in Ohio. I knew several people that left the camp and made it only as far as Chicago

And how is it different now with Guantanamo?

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I wish some forensic historian would expose who ended up with the farms,and other properties. Not making any excuses, but the Niesi lucked out better than a European Jew

Thanks for mentioning my grandpa

So obviously I'm not saying that the internment camps were a good thing but to call them concentration camps isn't right. For one thing more people came out of then then went in. Second you say $5 a day but this was 70 + years ago. The minimum wage was $0.30 an hour at the time so if you figure they worked the standard 8 hour day that's almost double minimum wage per hour. The standard GI made I believe it was fifty bucks a month fighting overseas. A gallon of gas around that time Was 20 cents a pack of cigarettes was about 24 cents A candy bar was a nickel. Without pointing the obvious inflation from that time some younger viewers might think 5 bucks is 5 bucks

Horrible thing like this should never happen again, regardless of their ethnicity and their religious background.

Are you familiar with the Niihau incident? In hindsight it's easy to disagree with the internment policy, and I do disagree with it, but there were Japanese Americans willing to and did in fact aid the Japanese enemy.

They did it once upon American soil once, and they will do it again.

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Internment camps not consideration camps I think

Nicely done. I'm always careful to call them internment camps rather than concentration camps. I do often have students make the comparison to the German concentration camps, though.

i hate what happened too, but there are some exaggerations. the Hawaiian business men where just as racist, they didn't force them into caps because the entire territory was under martial law because of the war. calling the caps concentration caps puts them on the same level of auschwitz, what we did was horrible but we didnt do genocide. also 5$ was a lot of money back then.

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I wish the ending was correct. I have met more than a few Americans who claim that the reason no sabotage by Japanese Americans occured was because they were locked up.

5$ a day?? I heard it was 12$ a Month.

my grandparents lived next-door to a lovely Japanese family. the family was taken away to one of those camps and left the house vacant. as vandals began to break in to the home, my grandparents took. it upon themselves to protect their belongings until they could find the rightful owners. it was passed onto us and we donated the items to a local christian church made up of primarily Japanese-Americans. Unfortunately we had a water heater mishap and damaged one of their photo albums, along with many of our own family photos. I dont know where they are but I pray that they are well.

When you hear what imperialist japan did to American soldiers people get angry and don’t think.

And when will people ever learn from history?

What happened to german americans?

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I was watching a watch mojo video recently, and a legacy of the attitude of the time manifested itself in depictions of Asian characters with slanted eyes and lisps (Commando Duck is a classic example). What some politicians miss (not just an American problem, my country has done it too I'm ashamed to say) is that locking people up purely based upon suspicion rather than proof will only succeed in motivating them to do something. Take the situation in Northern Ireland during the period that became known as the troubles, for years people were held without trial on suspicion of being involved with the IRA. What tended to happen was that if they weren't members of said organisation before, they were very ready to join after their experiences. Great video again Matt by the way :)

Unjustifiable racial hatred is one thing America is real good at. FDR was wrong in signing such a executive order. Without question a malicious vindictive and wrong move.

I know this is an old video, and that saying this is like shouting at a wall, but using the term “concentration camps” for the Japanese internment camps devalues the term. Were they horrible? Yes. Is it one of the most evil things the American government did? Yes. But it never, and thank the lord for this, got to the point of being equated to a concentration camp. Some historians believe that using the term concentration camp for the internment camps is a dog whistle for neonazis and nazi sympathizers who want to either try to downplay the evils of the Nazis or to attempt to claim that the American government was as bad as the Nazis, which is an utter lie.

Germany and America? **sigh**

You should remake this video with your newer video making skills

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M4m_BwYeIRo.html (timestamped) I don't think it's exactly accurate to say that it was the impact on the economy that let most Japanese-Americans in Hawaii avoid internment.The entire island was practically under martial law. While the economy reason is true, it's a gross misrepresentation to not bring up how Hawaii wasn't exactly a pleasant place to begin with alongside that.

Imagine if they did the same with Mexicans.

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Is there any history of oppression to Mexicans?

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These people were given reparations and an apology, meanwhile the black descendants of slavery haven't been given anything.

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I guess Japan should say sorry to all of the people in Korea who were sent to their prison camps

It was pretty bad, but you are obviously trying to make it sound as bad as you possibly can. Unfortuntely the way people try to exaggerate how bad the Japanese internment camps were makes it hard to assess how bad they really were.

I use the term "internment camps." To call them concentration camps equates the Japanese experience with the goals of the final solution the Nazis perpetrated in Europe.

Japan is my favorite counrty and I'm not gonna say just because Japan is my favorite country but this is just inhuman America is my second favorite country America at this time should have been above the Nazis I know that FDR did a lot for America during World War 2 however, this action is unforgettable not to mention that a lot of Americans married a Japanese women after the end of World War 2.

WOW. So many disgusting quotes. Shameful.

Good American soldiers follow orders.

Japanese also put Americans in internment camps as well and did numerous other horrible things to the Chinese and Filipinos.

i wouldnt have taken the money

We're just as myopic and hysterical today. Hindsight is 2020, humanity never learns. Pretty sure Covid camps are on the way, backed by the EXACT same irrational hysterics. What has changed?

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That is bullshit Hawaii was put under martial low and yes there where concentration camps there where more people that exited the camps thene entered the camps and 5$ a day that is 80 dolars( in today's money) a day and if you worked for a monthe that is 155$ in today money it is 12 000$ monthe a private in the US army made 50$

Concentration camp? What a gross misrepresentation of the tone and mission of these internment camps.

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This video is so sad :( poor innocent people were treated like second class citizens because they were Japanese or Japanese decent. This was basically the holocaust on a much smaller scale.........

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