The incarceration of Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1946 remains a significant part of World War II history, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 eliminated the constitutional rights of people of Japanese ancestry.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1946 remains a significant part of World War II history, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 notoriously eliminated the constitutional rights of people of Japanese ancestry while simultaneously portraying them as the foreign enemy.Approximately 120,000 Japanese, over two-thirds of whom were U.S.
From left to right: Satsuki Ina ; Hiroshi Kashiwagi ; Jim Tanimoto ; George Nakano ; and Jimi Yamaichi . All five, photographed in 2016, were incarcerated at Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. parents, who were separated when Ina’s father was sent to Fort Lincoln internment camp in Bismarck, North Dakota, after answering “no-no” to the loyalty questionnaire.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy executed a surprise military attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing over 2,000 and wounding another 1,200. Terrified and angry, Americans scapegoated those of Japanese descent, who already had a long history of being discriminated against as a minority group in the U.S.It was a Sunday.
We took only what we could carry, and of course we took more things than that. My mom made duffel bags out of a tent we had so we could carry our clothing. We had a flock of chickens and we didn’t want to leave them behind or give them away, so I had to butcher them all and my mother cooked them down so that we could put them in Mason jars and add them to the duffel bags with all the clothing.
The War Relocation Authority provided many activities and opportunities to keep people busy in Tule Lake. Students were sent to school, and those over 18 were given jobs, which paid a salary of either $12, $16, or $19 a month. The camp had amenities such as a mess hall, auditorium, and a post office.In my free time, I joined a club to write and also a little theater where we performed for the inmates, and we had an audience every night because we didn’t get movies imported into camp at the time.
This photo from 1943 shows Jim Tanimoto with 27 of his fellow internees at Tule Lake Segregation Center. Tanimoto and the members of Block 42 were among the many who refused to answer the loyalty questionnaire.Our whole block was surrounded with soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets a few days after we didn’t turn in the papers. As we finished our dinner at the mess hall and came out, we were sorted, separated, and I was taken with half of the men out of the camp to a building.
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