Fred Koreatsu Japanese Internment Analysis

529 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Japanese american internment poems

The story of Fred Korematsu and the Japanese internment is relevant to distinguishing between “law and order” and justice because there were Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants that had absolutely no intentions of harm against the United States that were forced into jail and internment camps. They were discriminated against only because they were Japanese. Korematsu was the test case that was used to try to achieve justice for Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants, even though he had a criminal record by definition. He broke the law for justice.
The case of undocumented youth activists highlights the need to make distinctions is for the same reasons, they were fighting the law. They were being nonviolent and they were just protesting for their rights. They again were getting arrested for participating in protests, but they continued fighting for what was right even with deportation and their safety on the line. …show more content…

The word interment definition is “the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons” (Dictionary.com) By saying that they are a prisoner for political or military reason was wrong. The reason they were confined as a prisoner was a matter of race.
By the government justifying the Japanese incarceration by saying that the Japanese Americans belonged to “an enemy race” is definitely a racist argument. They were at war with the race at that point. Not another country. This case relates directly to the post- September 11th “War on Terror”, just because horrible things are done by people of a specific race/religion suddenly everyone who is part of that race/religion is to blame. When race/religion has nothing to do with

Show More
Related

  • Korematsu vs. United States

    559 Words  | 2 Pages

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were regarded as a threat to the U.S. President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, also know as the Exclusion Order. This Order stated that any descendents or immigrants from enemy nations who might be a threat to U.S. security will report to assembly centers for Internment. There were no trials or hearings. They were forced to evacuate and many lost their homes and their businesses. Fred Korematsu refused to go. He was a U.S. citizen. Fred Korematsu was grabbed by police, handcuffed, and taken to jail. His crime -- defying President Franklin Roosevelt's order that American citizens of Japanese descent report to internment camps

    Read More

  • Farewell to Manzanar

    517 Words  | 2 Pages

    Denied citizenship by the United States, a man without a country, he was tormented and interrogated by the government based on this reality, labeled a “disloyal” citizen to the U.S. Severing Ko from the remainder of his family, the FBI detained as many as 1370 Japanese-Americans, classifying them as “dangerous enemy aliens.” As much as a year would pass before he would see his family again, joining them at Manzanar, a concentration camp. Forced to destroy all memoirs of his Japanese heritage, fearful such things would allude to Japanese allegiance, Ko no lo...

    Read More

  • John Diefenbaker

    998 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Bill would prevent many injustice incidents such as the case with the Japanese citizens in 1942. During WWII, the government gov’t declared that all people of ...

    Read More

  • Korematsu v. United States

    836 Words  | 2 Pages

    In summary, Korematsu v. United States (1944), opinion can be seen as one of great historical importance. The reason it is so important is because of the differences in the Judges racial classifications, and personal values. Another important factor in this case is the requirements of military requirement and the Fifth Amendment of equal protection. This case shows the importance of interpreting the Constitution and the different ways that the Constitution can be interpreted depending upon a persons own political backgrounds and beliefs.

    Read More

  • Fred Korematsu

    905 Words  | 2 Pages

    On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor which set off a series of chain reactions. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was concerned about Japanese spies hiding in the United states and his solution was to establish Executive Order 9066 which authorized military commanders to define “military areas” and to exclude anyone from those areas. Korematsu v. the United States was a result of Executive Order 9066 which relocated over 120,000 persons of Japanese descent. Fred Korematsu refused to be relocated and suffered consequences. About 62 years later, the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld arises and with it follows the question; has the government learned from their mistakes. Considering that Yaser Hamdi was captured and detained without proper rulings until 2 years after, the public would say that the government has forgotten their mistakes of mass incarceration and neglects the consequences of their actions. The government has forgotten the effects of Korematsu v. United states and has not learned the lesson of what became of the Executive Order 9066 and its effect on Japanese Americans as well as history.

    Read More

  • Japanese Internment Camps Research Paper

    538 Words  | 2 Pages

    What were the Japanese internment camps some might ask. The camps were caused by the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1942 by Japan. President Roosevelt signed a form to send all the Japanese into internment camps.(1) All the Japanese living along the coast were moved to other states like California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. The camps were located away from Japan and isolated so if a spy tried to communicate, word wouldn't get out. The camps were unfair to the Japanese but the US were trying to be cautious. Many even more than 66% or 2/3 of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in April of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan. Their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestors and they were suspected of being spies to their homeland of Japan. Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.(2)

    Read More

  • The United States' Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II

    1201 Words  | 3 Pages

    In conclusion, the United State Government did justify its actions for internment camps of Japanese Americans during World War II. However, how these fears and concerns were handle is a matter of violation of civil liberties even though it is the governments duty to preserve democracy. The Supreme Court has viewed past injustices as learning tools for future issues. Some similarities have appeared in modern history to the Japanese Americans injustices with the Arab Americans. Overall both groups have had to sacrifice their personal privacy at the cost of national security of the whole country.

    Read More

  • David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

    1257 Words  | 3 Pages

    To understand the fact that the mood of the novel was a very racially charged, the reader can reflect back to this time period in history and understand why it was so hard for Kabuo Miyamoto to receive a fair trial. One piece of historical evidence that show the racial animosity that majority of the population felt toward Japanese Americans the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the early morning hours of December 7, 1941 the United States was deliberately attacked by the Empire of Japan (Shandley 5). Within a few hours the Japanese has destroyed a majority of the Pacific Fleet of the United States naval capacity (5). Yet to the average American they took much more. The attack drove the American way of life into that of xenophobic thought. Never before had the United States been invaded in such a was as the events of December 7. Americans, in shock, feared anyone that they believed as being “enemy alien”(Desai 2). The American government in an effort combat this fear and to resolve the chance of “Japanese Aggression toward the United States as a whole” enacted the Executive order 9066 (Desai ...

    Read More

  • The Necessity Of Japanese Internment

    1429 Words  | 3 Pages

    FYI (This is a biased written paper written if one were to defend Japanese Internment)

    Read More

  • Japanese Internment After Pearl Harbor

    2439 Words  | 5 Pages

    23 .Roger Daniel, Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in the World War II 1993, Hill and Yang.

    Read More

  • Japanese Internment

    700 Words  | 2 Pages

    After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was filled with panic. Along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes, and businesses, this feeling was especially great. During the time preceding World War II, there were approximately 112,000 persons of Japanese descent living in California, Arizona, and coastal Oregon and Washington. These immigrants traveled to American hoping to be free, acquire jobs, and for some a chance to start a new life. Some immigrants worked in mines, others helped to develop the United States Railroad, many were fishermen, farmers, and some agricultural laborers.

    Read More

  • Individual Rights Versus Public Order

    1646 Words  | 4 Pages

    The basis of criminal justice in the United States is one founded on both the rights of the individual and the democratic order of the people. Evinced through the myriad forms whereby liberty and equity marry into the mores of society to form the ethos of a people. However, these two systems of justice are rife with conflicts too. With the challenges of determining prevailing worth in public order and individual rights coming down to the best service of justice for society. Bearing a perpetual eye to their manifestations by the truth of how "the trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both" (Hitchens, 2003, para. 5).

    Read More

  • Japanese American Incarceration

    1893 Words  | 4 Pages

    There has been considerable debate as to if internment is really an appropriate term for the holding of Japanese Americans. Internment, the term that has typically been used to describe the holding of Japanese citizens, is defined as the legal detention of enemy aliens during wartime. This is inaccurate as about 66% of those imprisoned were American Citizens. Incarceration on the other hand refers to the imprisonment of citizens, not aliens, so it more accurately describes the situation that faced...

    Read More

  • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

    1150 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...e undocumented youth, it is not where they were born that constitutes them, but where their heart lies. For these individuals, their heart lies in the Unites States of America.

    Read More

  • The History Of Criminal Justice

    1016 Words  | 3 Pages

    The definition of justice and the means by which it must be distributed differ depending on an individual’s background, culture, and own personal morals. As a country of many individualistic citizens, the United States has always tried its best to protect, but not coddle, its people in this area. Therefore, the criminal justice history of the United States is quite extensive and diverse; with each introduction of a new era, more modern technologies and ideals are incorporated into government, all with American citizens’ best interests in mind.

    Read More

More about Fred Koreatsu Japanese Internment Analysis

Open Document