  the internment of japanese americans was the world war ii confinement of between 110,000 and 120,000various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons. people of japanese heritage who lived on the pacific coast of the united states. the u.s. government ordered the removal of japanese americans in 1942, shortly after imperial japan's attack on pearl harbor.national park service. manzanar national historic site the internment was applied unequally as a geographic matter: almost all who lived on the west coast were sent to camps, while in hawaii, where 150,000-plus japanese americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned.ogawa, dennis m. and fox, jr., evarts c. japanese americans, from relocation to redress. 1991, page 135. sixty-two percent of the internees were american citizens.semiannual report of the war relocation authority, for the period january 1 to june 30, 1946, not dated. papers of dillon s. myer. scanned image at trumanlibrary.org. retrieved september 18, 2006."the war relocation authority and the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii: 1948 chronology," web page at www.trumanlibrary.org. retrieved september 11, 2006. president franklin d. roosevelt authorized the internment with executive order 9066, issued february 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded." this power was used to declare that all people of japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire west coast, including all of california and much of oregon, washington and arizona, except for those in government camps.korematsu v. united states dissent by justice owen josephus roberts, reproduced at findlaw.com. retrieved september 12, 2006. approxi
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