[Archimedes2000]

Totally agree, and have thought these same thoughts for a while.

I think the Japanese camps were infortunate. But I also think that given the circumstances, the camps were largely innocuous.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor using Japanese tourists/locals as spies. It's hard to fault the quarintine of west Coast Japanese, particularly quarantines of those Japanese whose allegiance was to the Emporer, rather than America. And yes, some innocents were caught up in the camps.

Japanese were also fed, housed, educated, not forced into slave labor, and ultimately won their freedom thorugh America's courts. I'd be hard pressed to find an example of better treatment in a historical context.

[FreedomPoster]

>>I think the Japanese camps were infortunate. But I also think that given the circumstances, the camps were largely innocuous.

Actually, there is recent evidence that we knew of a substantial number of Japanese agents here in the U.S. through Ultra intercepts. Just grabbing those players would have been a dead give-away that the Japanese Purple Codes had been compromised. So the decision was made for the mass internments. Unpleasant but understandable, given the threat and the times.