JAPAN
"On March 31, 1942, Japanese Americans along the West Coast
were ordered to report to control stations and register the names
of all family members. They were then told when and where they should report
for removal to an internment camp. (Some of those who survived the camps and
other individuals concerned with the characterization of their history have
taken issue with the use of the term internment, which they argue is used properly
when referring to the wartime detention of enemy aliens but not of U.S. citizens,
who constituted some two-thirds of those of Japanese extraction who were detained
during the war. Many of those who are critical of the use of internment believe
incarceration and detention to be more appropriate terms.) Japanese Americans were
given from four days to about two weeks to settle their affairs and gather as many
belongings as they could carry. In many cases, individuals and families were forced
to sell some or all of their property, including businesses, within that period of time."
“Japanese American Internment.” Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., 1 May 2024, www.britannica.
com/event/Japanese-American-internment.