when the japanese attacked pearl harbor our west coast became a potential combat zone living in that zone or more than a hundred among this concentrated population if japanese forces should try to invade our shores military authorities therefore determined that all of them citizens and aliens alike would have come up with this picture tells how the mass migration was accomplished neither the our main or the war relocation authority relish the idea of taking men women and children from their homes their shops and their farms so the military and civilian agencies alike determined to do the job as a democracy shut with real consideration for the people in the first attention was given to the problems of sabotage and has been up now here in san francisco for example convoys were being made up with insight  possible exit stage for the remark japanese and not censored in any other area nearby san pedro houses and hotels occupied almost exclusively by japanese were within a stone's throw  naval air base shipyard well japanese special men had every opportunity to watch the movement of our ships japanese farmers were living close to vit aircraft but some of the first them all japanese were required to move from critical areas such as these but of course this limited evacuation was a solution to only part of the problem the larger problem the uncertainty about what happened among these people in case of a japanese invasion still remains that is why the commanding general of the western defense command determined that all japanese within the coastal area should move in i the army began mapping evacuation areas and for a time encourage the japanese to leave voluntarily troubled by the voluntary evacuation threatened in their new location so the program was quickly put on a plan and then protected makes the to the american citizen japanese and japanese aliens made their plans in accordance with army order notices were posted all persons of japanese descent were required to register they gathered in their own churches and schools in the japanese themselves cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork involved in the migration civilian positions made preliminary medical examination government agencies helped in a hundred ways they he evacuees find tenants for their farms they helped businessmen lease sell or start their property let's say it was financed by the government with quick disposal of property often involves financial sacrifice from the evacu now the actual migration got underway the army provided plates of land to transport household belongings the buses to move the people to assembly got the evacuees cooperated wholeheartedly not towns as well as large up and down the coast moving continue behind them they left the shop went home and occupied for many years federally owned lands in the interior satiny the racetrack for example suddenly became a community of about seventeen thousand person the army provided housing plenty of helpful nourishing food for all the residents of the new communities set about developing a way of life as nearly normal as possible they help church services protestants catholics and buddhists they should their own newspaper organize nursery schools and some made camouflage nets for the united states army meanwhile in arizona utah colorado wyoming and elsewhere quarters were being built where they would have an opportunity to work more space in which to live when word came that these new homes were ready the final movement opened advanced americanization classes for college students who in turn would instruct other groups they made a rough beginning of self government while the army would guard the outer limits of each area community life and security with them were largely up to the japanese themselves they admitted they saw the need for developing civic leaders at weekly community meetings citations were given to the block leaders who had worked most diligently special emphasis was put on the health and care of these american children of japanese their parents most of whom are american citizens and their grandparents who are at liam's middle they want to go to work at manton are they at parker they under meantime we're setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation we are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of christian dixon's without change the fundamental decency no matter