Japanesse

This is an article I found when looking for information about Interment camps. It is an article stating why interment camps are good and needed. It talks about since after the war, which I am asuming is World War II, that the Japanesse are plotting against the United States since the war. It mentions that the Jappanese are good for agriculture and states that there are over 100, 000 japanesse here and that almost 80,000 of the were American citizens. It says that when we started the investigation we found that the Japanesse government plantted a Japanesse state in the Californian border. It finishes the article by saying that there are Japanesse spys here that report back to the government and some of them are in the American headquarters. I chose to do a portfolio on this article becuase i found it ineresting to find first hand facts of American fear towards the Japanesse during the 1940s. Plus, this relates to class materials on internment camps

This item relates to our class study on racism towards the japanesse and interment camps. I think that this article relates both to the comic covers and well as the video we watched over internment camps in class. It relates to the comic covers becuase the article was written to put fear in Americans of the Japanesse, that they are plotting agaisnt us and are out to destroy us. On the other hand it relates to the video we watched over interment camps becuase the video says that the Japanesse are happy there and that we are providing them a good life in the relocation centers. It is bascally saying we are just in what we did and that there is nothing wrong with it, and they are not like concentration camps. This article says that the relocation centers are just becuase we need to prevent the Jappanesse from plotting against us, so we need to keep an eye of everyone who is of Japanesse dicent here in the United States.

In my opinion this article was written by the government to scare the American public and make them distrust the Japanesse. They wanted the public to agree with them, so no one would complain about the interment camps. I think this affected stereotypes for Asian americans as well. People most likey viewed all Asains in negative ways during this time.