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	Topaz Camp
		The camp covers about 19,800 acres and is a mix of public domain land, land which had reverted to the county for non payment of taxes and land purchased from private parties.
		Executive Order 9066 and Civilian Exclusion Order 5 decreed that over 120,000 Japanese Americans be removed from their homes in the "western defense zone" of the United States, and incarcerated in ten "internment" camps, which were located in isolated areas of Utah, Montana, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Idaho.
		Camp life at Topaz settled down and residents continued the routine of cultivating gardens, attending classes at schools or the recreation halls, and working.
	www.millardcounty.com /topazcamp.html (1628 words)

	Japanese Internment in World War II
		Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
		More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.
		The last internment camp was closed by the end of 1945.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/internment1.html (744 words)

	PNLA Quarterly, Fall 98: Priscilla Wegars Presentation
		The Kooskia (KOOS-key) Internment Camp is an obscure and virtually forgotten World War II U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention facility that was located in a remote area of north- central Idaho between May 1943 and May 1945.
		The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Kooskia Internment Camp utilized the buildings and facilities of the Canyon Creek Prison Camp, a work camp for federal prisoners who helped construct the Lewis and Clark Highway between 1935 and 1943.12 The federal prisoners were moved out in May 1943,13 and the Japanese internees began arriving a week later.
		The Japanese who lived at the Kooskia Internment Camp from then until it closed in early May 1945 were all male, and all volunteers, and ranged in age from their low twenties to their mid-sixties.
	www.pnla.org /quart/f98/camp.htm (2235 words)

	CM Magazine: A Curious Cage: Life in a Japanese Internment Camp 1943-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Her comparative maturity (being in her late thirties at the time) provided an understanding of and empathy for the culture and people of China, something that gave a particular insight to the experiences she was about to undergo.
		Given the ever-present danger of discovery, an internment camp journal would have to be written with some measure of caution; but the reader is stuck by a candor and frankness that suggest the picture drawn is fair and full.
		Internment camps have gathered their own mythology, and the Pemberton-Carter diaries go a considerable distance in squaring those myths with reality.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol9/no20/curiouscage.html (629 words)

	DOJ Camps
		The camps were guarded by Border Patrol agents rather than military police and were intended for non-citizens including Buddhist ministers, Japanese language instructors, newspaper workers, and other community leaders.
		Camp Kenedy housed only men, many of whom were separated from family members who sent to other camps.
		"Japanese and Japanese Latin Americans at Idaho's Kooskia Internment Camp." In Guilt by Association: Essays on Japanese Settlement, Internment, and Relocation in the Rocky Mountain West, Mike Mackey, ed.
	www.nps.gov /manz/ccdoj.htm (935 words)

	Minidoka Internment NM: Expanded Website
		Barbed wire fences surrounded the camp, armed guards patrolled the grounds, and movement between different areas of the camp was strictly controlled.
		After the camp closed in October 1945, these lands were divided into smaller farms and auctioned to the highest bidders or given to WWII veterans along with two buildings.
		Segregation in the camps was achieved by employing what came to be known as the "loyalty questionnaire." The questionnaires were originally designed for determining suitability for military service.
	www.nps.gov /miin/home.htm (1691 words)

	Children's Books Relating to the Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
		Abstract: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
		Abstract: After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps.
		Abstract: Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~davidtoc/japint.html (671 words)

	Manzanar Japanese internment camp : Manazanar War Relocation Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Manazanar was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese "aliens" were interned as a "precautionary measure" during World War II.
		During the waning years of the war, the military presence of the camp was lessened and many internees were allowed to wander around the countryside and even fish and hunt in the Sierras.
		A shrine in the form of an obelisk was built in the cemetery by a group of internees led by Ryozo Kado[?] in 1943.
	www.city-search.org /ma/manazanar-war-relocation-center.html (720 words)

	history
		All people of Japanese ancestry were given a week to ten days to conclude any business, lock up their homes and report to a designated location on a specified date with no more baggage than they could carry.
		The camp in Wyoming, known as the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, was to be constructed on land that was part of a federal reclamation project located in the northwest corner of the state, halfway between the communities of Powell and Cody.
		Japanese Americans were then designated 1-A and told that they were eligible to volunteer for service in a segregated, all-Japanese unit which would serve in Europe.
	chem.nwc.cc.wy.us /HMDP/history.htm (6451 words)

	internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Most Japanese considered the U.S. to be their home and they realized they could end up taking arms against their own families back in Japan.
		At the Minidoka camp some people were released because the people needed the detainees for help with the crops because the men were at war.
		Justice Stone felt awkward being in the position that the US claimed that they had good knowledge that the Japanese would be traitors to the U.S. The Karimatsu case was heard and Hugo Black was torn that the Supreme Court could not and should not second-guess the military.
	www.isu.edu /psa/internment.html (1128 words)

	JS Online: Shio helped relatives leave Japanese internment camp
		She also joined the Japanese American Citizens League, a pre-World War II organization dedicated to civil rights for Japanese and later other Asian citizens, and she served as a president of the Wisconsin chapter.
		He was ill with stomach cancer when the family was forced into the new internment camp, which did not have medical care.
		The second of seven daughters, she was the oldest daughter helping their immigrant parents in the internment camp.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nobits/feb04/209051.asp?format=print (535 words)

	Japanese-American Internment in WWII Photographs Exhibit, Univ. Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was gripped by war hysteria.
		Leaders in California, Oregon, and Washington, demanded that the residents of Japanese ancestry be removed from their homes along the coast and relocated in isolated inland areas.
		Internment camps were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming, where Japanese-Americans were forced to carry on their lives under harsh conditions.
	www.lib.utah.edu /spc/photo/9066/9066.htm (261 words)

	NMAH : Our Story in History : Try It At Home : Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp : More Information
		Today, the Japanese American community is still working to make sure that all those who were forced to leave their homes are compensated.
		The Japanese American National Museum features this virtual exhibition that explores letters written by children in the internment camps to a public librarian, Clara Breed.
		This PBS documentary tells the stories of six Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII, and explores the lasting effects of their experiences.
	americanhistory2.si.edu /ourstoryinhistory/tryathome/activities_internment_more.html (622 words)

	Japanese Internment Camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		All internment camps were in very dry places of the interior of the US.
		Camps were surrounded by barbed wire fences to "prevent the Japanese from escaping."
		If you visited an internment camp you would find American flags everywhere because of Japanese showing their support for the war.
	home.earthlink.net /~joeman/internment/internment.htm (154 words)

	Children of the Camps \| INTERNMENT SITES
		Photographs of the remnants of the internment camps by Prof.
		Using digital technology, Densho (meaning "to pass on to the next generation") gathers the life stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II and presents their firsthand accounts, together with historic photographs and documents.
		Dedicated to the Japanese American WWII brigade, some of the most decorated soldiers in the War, who fought in Europe while their families were incarcerated in the U.S. See also
	www.children-of-the-camps.org /resources/internment.html (398 words)

	Japanese-American Internment
		Japanese American internment raised questions about the rights of American citizens as embodied in the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
		Pretend that you are a Japanese American housed in one of the interment camps during WWII.
		The evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, or Nikkei, from the Pacific Coast in the early months of 1942 was the greatest mass movement in the history of Canada.
	www.42explore2.com /japanese.htm (1346 words)

	Granada Japanese Internment Camp
		On February 19, by Executive order, the president authorized the military commander to prescribe certain areas from which any or all persons [of Japanese ancestry] may be excluded.
		It was through this office that the Japanese disposed of their properties, received their instructions and were ushered into the various assembly centers prior to their exodus further inland…
		The Granada Relocation Center [in Prowers County] was officially opened on August 27, 1942, with the arrival of the first contingent from the Merced Assembly Center [in Northern California].
	www.colorado.gov /dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm (977 words)

	Internment Camp: A Family Interpretation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As you have read earlier I was born in a Japanese internment camp in the Phillippine Islands during WW2.
		The camps were set up during world war to imprison Americans who the Japanese saw as enemy aliens.
		Since I have almost no memories from my first three years of life in the internment camp, the meaning of this experience came to me by way of the stories my parents told.
	www.orednet.org /~jflory/205/camp.htm (372 words)

	Masumi Hayashi Photography
		She collected personal photographs taken by these camp survivors during their time at the internment camps.
		The "Canadian Concentration Camps" page shows some of Hayashi's work from her more recent travels to Japanese-Canadian Concentration Camp sites, and gives audiences a brief historical synopsis of the Canadian Government's reaction to its own population of Japanese immigrants during WWII.
		Internment camp statistical information is presented with the permission of the Japanese American National Museum and Brian Niiya, 1997.
	www.csuohio.edu /art_photos (611 words)

	japanese american internment camp - is about
		Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp...
		Children of the Camps: the Japanese American WWII internment camp experience
		The Children of the Camps documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined as children to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II.
	www.angelfire.com /ab8/angelte/16/japanese-american-internment-camp.html (305 words)

	Report to the President: Japanese-American Internment Sites Preservation
		These lands were transferred to the War Relocation Authority (WRA) for internment purposes pursuant to Executive Order No. 9066.
		However, local individuals, Tule Lake Pilgrimage Committee, Japanese American Citizens League, Sacramento, and the staff of the State Historic Preservation Officer are interested in preservation and interpretation of the Center's remains.
		The State of California is considering the addition of a wayside rest area at Tule Lake.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/internment/reporta2.htm (1121 words)

	Timeline
		The census found 126,947 Japanese Americans; 62.7% were citizens by birth.
		The Japanese Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco was formed.
		The Evacuation Claims Act authorized payment to Japanese Americans who suffered economic loss during imprisonment: with the necessary proof, 10 cents was returned for every $1.00 lost.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8420/timeline.html (2454 words)

	Kooskia Internment Camp Project
		The Kooskia (pronounced KOOS-key) Internment Camp is an obscure and virtually-forgotten World War II detention facility that was located in a remote area of north-central Idaho, 30 miles from the town of Kooskia, and 6 miles east of the hamlet of Lowell, at Canyon Creek.
		The WRA camps, including one at Minidoka, in southern Idaho, housed some 120,000 American citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry who were unconstitutionally evacuated, relocated, and interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
		Although some of the internees held camp jobs, most of the men were construction workers for a portion of the present Highway 12 between Lewiston, Idaho, and Missoula, Montana, parallel to the wild and scenic Lochsa River.
	www.uidaho.edu /LS/AACC/KOOSKIA.HTM (954 words)

	Pacifica's Sharp Park Japanese Internment Camp - 1942
		Moved Inland as Soon as Camps are Opened Up Within sight of old Salada Beach, where many of them used to spend Sundays fishing, taking snapshots (and possibly making notes of reefs, currents and landmarks for the Japanese Navy), scores of alien Japanese today were housed in an internment camp at Sharp Park.
		Opening of the camp was made necessary by overcrowding of the Immigration Station into which the FBI has been pouring a steady stream of Japanese, Germans, and Italians known, or suspected to be, members of secret groups and to have possessed weapons, explosives, signal lights, short wave receiving sets and other contraband.
		The first covered 237 Japanese residents of Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound not far from the Bremerton Navy Yard, who were removed by special train yesterday to the reception center at Manzanar, in the Owens Valley.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist8/sharppark.html (653 words)

	Children of the Camps \| INTERNMENT HISTORY
		The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.
		Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered.
		Popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill, this act acknowledged that "a grave injustice was done" and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.
	www.children-of-the-camps.org /history (426 words)

	PAT 2001 Utah Regional Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thc entrepreneurs for such an endeavor were the Hoshiyama brothers, internees of the Japanese internment camp located just 16 miles outside of Delta.
		The main purpose of this paper is to determine the reaction of Delta residents to the Japanese internment camp, nicknamed Topaz.
		However, the Delta community had a number of opportunities to interact with the internees through working at the camp, playing sports, watching talent shows, or even boarding the Japanese internees in their homes.
	www.utah.edu /pat/conference2001/abstracts2001/Pabst.html (313 words)

	Palmer, John Wesley, Experiences in a Japanese Internment Camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A description of the speaker's position today in contrast to one year ago as a political prisoner in a Japanese internment camp.
		The truth of stories told of the brutality and fanaticism of the average Japanese soldier.
		Two suggested lines of thought from the speaker: Do not emphasize one Axis group at the expense of the other; a strong appeal for a maximum war effort so that the liberation of those millions to whom freedom of thought and movement is still denied, may be hastened as quickly as possible.
	www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=1174 (310 words)

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