The Japanese were interned long before the kamikaze attacks started.
Most of the Japanese in Hawaii were NOT interned at all——most of the Mainland ones were.
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Most of the Japanese in Hawaii were NOT interned at all——most of the Mainland ones were.
In the week after the Pearl Harbor bombing, the unpatriotic behavior of the Japanese-descended inhabitants on the Hawaiian island of Niihau, likely added to the angst of the times. Wikipedia, Niihau Incident:
"The [the crash-landing] incident and the actions of [pilot] Nishikaichi's abettors demonstrated the potential for Japanese national allegiance among immigrant Japanese populations to work against the US war effort. This ultimately may have influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II."
Very few were interned at all. Most Japanese and citizens of Japanese decent were “relocated,” and only those within the “exclusion zone” of the West Coast were subject to that action. Anyone who could move to the interior of the country was free to do so. About 5,000 did. S. I. Hayakawa, who was Canadian by birth, taught at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology throughout the war.
Of course, the vast majority had no ability to find housing thousands of miles from their homes and were forced into the relocation camps. It was wrong, and no doubt racism played a role, but the action has been mischaracterized by the left for decades. A few of those relocated were released to go study at colleges, for example. The camps weren’t like Auschwitz, but the left wants us to think they were.