Essay On Japanese Spies

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On December 7, 1941, there was an attack. Pearl Harbor had been bombed, and the casualties were high. At first, the United States believed the attack came from the Nazis, but were proven wrong when the Japanese took fault for the attack. Prior to that attack, there were Japanese spies on an island, called Oahu. Some were agents, while others were regular people who had no relation to the Japanese Foreign Service. The spies collected and sent back information to the Japanese Empire, respecting the dispositions on the island. Japanese families/people who lived in the United States before the war were very serious about believing in America, and a new start. They were a small group, but they were valuable to the population. Many of them contributed to a lot of work that many other Americans did. Arts, agriculture, and science were very important to us, and the Japanese helped out a significant amount with things like that. The majority of people believed they seen hope in America, and were growing with America as well. The casualties of war caused America’s Japanese minority to be judged throughout the US. Americans believed all Japanese people were spies and needed to …show more content…

A lot of people may think it was, in order to keep America safe, but putting one race into literal cages, would not guarantee the safeness of America. It would only cause more uprising, from the ones who used to be called “neighbors” and “friends”. Japanese-Americans did not appreciate the internment, and that happening can cause an uprising after everything blows over. Think about it, if you were blamed for something you never even considered doing, and placed into a camp, with little to do, you would not walk out of there thinking everything was okay. You would want to make the people who did that to you pay. There was not going to be peace after everything had settled

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