Title: Japanese Americans
First published: 1996
Description: "Since 1855, nearly half a million Japanese immigrants have settled in the United States, and today more than twice that number claim Japanese ancestry. While these immigrants worked hard, established networks, and repeatedly distinguished themselves as entrepreneurs, they also encountered harsh discrimination. Nowhere was this more evident than on the West Coast during World War II, when virtually the entire population of Japanese Americans was forced into internment camps solely on the basis of ethnicity."
Subjects: History, Immigrants, Japanese Americans, Japanese Americans -- History., Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Immigrants, united states, United states, history, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Places: United States