no only on the west coast because the most Japanese people living in the U.S. lived on the west coast because when the people came from Japan they didnt want to go all the way across the U.S. so they stayed on the east coast. They interned people in the east coast because that was where most of the Japanese people were and it would be easiest 8--------
They were interned in internment camps.
Japanese internment camps sprung up during World War Two. These camps relocated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a factor in the development of these camps.
The US west Coast.
Under an Executive Order, Americans interred Japanese-Americans.
The USA was worried about the Japanese-Americans on the coast supplying Japanese with information and helping the Japanese attack the USA in any way. So the USA put the Japanese-Americans in internment camps.
Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the US west coast were placed in internment camps on the claim that spies and sabatouers could be hiding among them. Since Japanese and Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and in the US east of the Mississippi were not forced into camps, and since no American citizens of German or Italian descent were placed in internment camps, the actual reason is more likely related to racial stereotypes and anti-Japanese hysteria.Read more: Why_were_Internment_camps_set_up_for_Japanese_Americans
the west coast was an exclusion zone.they were believed to be spies and enemies of the state
Any Japanese that lived on the west coast of America, including most of California.Approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals.
Because of the large Japanese population in the west coast states such as California
The effects on the internment of Japanese-Americans was negative psychologically. Shock and fear plagued the Japanese-Americans as a result of the internment camps.
I think you are referring to the WWII Japanese internment camps. After Pearl Harbor, it was thought that Japanese-American citizens could not be trusted, so they were rounded up and forced to live at various "camps" around the U.S. until the war was over. See the Related Links below.
Some 120 000 Japanese-Americans during World War II were forced into internment camps along the United States Pacific coast after Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order started plans of 10 internment camps.