You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Every Japanese man, woman, and child (citizen, resident, or illegal) on the West Coast was interned.
My goodness, peeps.
The proper word is “interned” - with an ‘n’. To “inter” - without an ‘n’ - means to bury a dead body.
Japanese Americans were interned not interred.
Re “every Japanese man, woman and child (citizen, resident or illegal) on the West Coast was interned”.
Basically correct.
However, Japanese/Japanese Americans living elsewhere were allowed to stay and to work, often in war industries, or agricultural industries esp. on the East Coast.
Some were allowed to join the Army as interpretors and possibly radio intercept operators. Most combat soldiers were sent to Europe where any residual resentment against them would be minimal (i.e. the 442nd).
A few were sent to the Pacific, as were the Navaho code-talkers, Indian volunteers in the Army/Navy.
If the old Hollywood adage of “Location, Location, Location” had any real meaning, it was to those Japanese/Americans who lived on the West Coast at the start of WW2.
As I recall, most Japanese living in Hawaii were not interned. They might have been required to register with the military, depending on their citizenship or resident alien status, but I don’t remember any major roundup there (a few saboteurs and spies were arrested after Pearl Harbor).
Another area of history that needs more work.