The Hypocrisy of Japanese Internment

December 7, 1941 is regarded by the United States as a day of infamy. On this day Japanese Air forces launched a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor and crippled the US Navy. After this day America officially declared war on Japan and entered World War II. However, in public opinion the war was viewed as a war against the Japanese and not against the nation of Japan. These sentiments led to the creation of internment camps where many Japanese-Americans, who had demonstrated no signs of treason or disloyalty, were imprisoned for many months until the end of the war. This action was viewed as necessary by many in the American public but when it was discovered that Nazi Germany were hosting Concentration Camps that gathered Jewish individuals and systematically executed them, the American populace cried injustice and forever remember those camps as the pinnacle of evil in the world. The Hypocrisy of these reactions and the supposed justification of these differing opinions will be explored. The first question to be answered is why is a analysis of the two camps necessary or important in this day and age? The Internment Camps were not only a mistaken judgement of allegiance but they were a blatant violation of the Constitution. The camps ignored Americans right to a speedy trial and the right to be safe and secure in their belongings. The reason this is important is due to the fact that these violations were attributed to any appearance of danger but to the appearance of skin. The Japanese-Americans that were rounded up into camps were only seen as Japanese, this point is made apparent when considering the German-Americans that were seen as more dangerous to the country and yet were not rounded up in-mass to internment camps of their own. These dangers are ever present in the future as recorded in one article this conversation is " to pursue a full discussion of…the need to revise and create a nomenclature that