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  2. Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, much anti-Japanese paraphernalia and propaganda surfaced in the United States. An example of this was the so-called "Jap hunting license", a faux-official document, button or medallion that purported to authorize "open season" on "hunting" the Japanese, despite the fact that over a quarter of a million ...

  3. Japanese American redress and court cases - Wikipedia

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    Some 5,500 Issei men arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor were already in Justice Department or Army custody, [1] and 5,000 were able to "voluntarily" relocate outside the exclusion zone; [2] the remaining Japanese Americans were "evacuated" from their homes and placed in isolated concentration camps over the spring of 1942. Two ...

  4. Propaganda for Japanese-American internment - Wikipedia

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    After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards people of Japanese ancestry indicated a strong sense of racism. [1] This sentiment became further intensified by the media of the time, which played upon issues of racism on the West Coast , the social fear of the Japanese people, and citizen-influenced ...

  5. Japanese-American life after World War II - Wikipedia

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    On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and into internment camps for the duration of the war.

  6. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Niihau Incident occurred in December 1941, just after the Imperial Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy had designated the Hawaiian island of Niihau as an uninhabited island for damaged aircraft to land and await rescue. Three Japanese Americans on Niihau assisted a Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi, who ...

  7. Merced Assembly Center - Wikipedia

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    The Merced Assembly Center, located in Merced, California, was one of sixteen temporary assembly centers hastily constructed in the wake of Executive Order 9066 to incarcerate those of Japanese ancestry beginning in the spring of 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and prior to the construction of more permanent concentration camps to house those forcibly removed from the West Coast. [1]

  8. Pearl Harbor Day: See photos of the attack that brought the ...

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    The damaged battleship USS California, listing to port after being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs, is seen off Ford Island during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. December 7, 1941.

  9. Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor coupled with their alliance with the Nazis and the ensuing war in the Pacific fueled anti-Japanese sentiment, racism, xenophobia, and anti-Axis sentiment in the Allied nations like never before. Japanese, Japanese-Americans and Asians having a similar physical appearance were regarded with deep-seated ...