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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Alien and Sedition Acts, Allegiance (musical), Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, Black Dragon Society, Civil Liberties Act of 1988, Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Culbert Olson, Dale Minami, David Lowman, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, Eric Yamamoto, Executive Order 9066, Executive Order 9102, Ex parte Endo, Fairplex, FBI Index, Frank S. Emi, Go For Broke Monument, Hirabayashi v. United States, Japanese-American Claims Act, Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese American internment, Japanese American redress and court cases, John L. DeWitt, Karl Bendetsen, Korematsu v. United States, Koyasan Buddhist Temple, Magic (cryptography), Marvin Opler, Michi Weglyn, Mike Masaoka, Milton S. Eisenhower, Munson Report, Nihon Go Gakko (Tacoma), No-No Boy (play), Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, Peter H. Irons, Ralph Lawrence Carr, Reference re Persons of Japanese Race, Seabrook, New Jersey, Shikata ga nai, The Long Journey Home, War Relocation Authority, Wayne M. Collins, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, Yasui v. United States, Zenshuji. Excerpt: Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the interment in 1942, shortly after the Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned. Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," 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 Pacific coast, including all of California and much of Oregon, Washington and Arizona, except for those in internment camps. In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders, while noting that the provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings. The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau's role was denied for decades, but was finally proven in 2007. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter conducted an investigation to determine whether putting Japanese Americans into internment camps was justified well enough by the government. He appointed the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) to investigate the camps. The commission's report, named "Personal Justice Denied," found little evidence of Japanese disloyalty at the time and recommended the government pay reparations to the survivors. They forme
