HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Santa Barbara City College, Japanese American Redress And Court Cases, Japanese Americans
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120,000 japanese americans living on the west coast imprisoned to internment camps: more than 70,000 of those were americans, we had committed no "crime" other than being merely of japanese descent. Although strict anti-asian immigration laws remained in place after world war ii, more than 20,000 japanese women who had served in japan after the war had married. In the late 1960s, young japanese americans who were born after world. War ii started searching for information on japanese internment camps during world war ii: this interest contributed to the so-called redress movement, in which the us government requested apologies and compensation from the japanese americans. In many ways japanese americans have become more american than. Japanese, with fewer immigrants from japan coming along with them: this transition, together with the shift in societal attitudes towards minorities in the 1960s, resulted in a higher degree of acceptance for.
