TRUE or FALSE U.S. Had Japanese concentration camps in World war II ?

Internment camps ARE concentration camps. People are confused about that because they associate the term "concentration camp" with "death camp" owing to the Holocaust.

But when you round up people and "concentrate" them in one area, from which they cannot leave, and especially if you do it because you regard them as enemies, that is a concentration camp.

For the origin of the term, see the camps the British set up for Boer women and children in South Africa during the Boer War.

They called them internment,relocation or detention camps,but essentially,the answer is yes.

In the strict sense of the word "concentration camps" were meant to "concentrate" enemy civilians so they could be guarded and prevented from aiding the enemy. The term has since come to be associated with Nazi death camps,and that's not what we're talking about at all.

This was closer to what the British did in the Boer War. The trouble was that this was basically racial profiling and prejudice after Pearl Harbor and the people interned were overwhelmingly loyal US citizens. People lost property,were sometimes robbed or badly treated,and others died because of inadequate conditions and care.

The US government apologized for this shameful episode not so many years ago in 1988. Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment. It stated that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". About $1.6 billion in reparations were later disbursed by the U.S. government to every surviving internee.

Edit: Lili,the British didn't invent them. The term comes from Spanish "reconcentration camps" in Cuba in the 1890s,but the practice had been used by both the Spanish in their colonies and the US in conflicts with Native Americans prior to that.

Yes, internment camps is what they were called. There was a detention center in the town where I was born and grew up. It was only about a mile from my house. So I know they were real. There were no Japanese there at the time since the war was over, but the buildings were still there. They used the buildings for housing the braceros when they came to Salinas, CA to work in the produce during the 50s. The camps were scattered all over the western states.

The detention centers were a stopping off place where the government decided which camp to send the people to. They just waited there for their transportation to be arranged.

The United States placed many West Coast Japanese immigrants and US citizens of Japanese ethnicity in Internment Camps.

The term "concentration" camps has a negative connotation associated with the Holocaust. The US Internment of Japanese in WWII was shameful and unjust, but it was in no way analogous to the German Concentration Camps.

They were not death camps or extermination camps like in Nazi Germany or German held areas of Europe, but they were detention camps.

After Pearl Harbor, it was believed Japanese Americans, whether Japanese born, or 2nd or 3rd generation Americans would be loyal to Japan and the Japanese emperor, not to the US. The government and military was very concerned about sabotage and what we might now class as 'terrorism' by Japanese Americans. No Japanese Americans were ever convicted of any kind of sabotage or espionage.

At first Japanese Americans were not allowed to join the military, but by about 1943 units of 'Nisei' or American born Japanese Americans were allowed to be formed. The Nisei fought very bravely especially in Italy in WWII.

Some of the more famous detainees in the camps were George Takei of the original "Star Trek", actor Pat Morita and long time Senator Daniel Inoyue of Hawaii.

Not to my knowledge.

In WWI the some German Americans were interned.

In WWII Italian Americans and Japanese Americans were both interned in family camps.

The Japanese had Experimental Medical Camps in Manchuria, Experimental Camp 13 is well known, and did living autopsies on captured Chinese soldiers and Chinese civilians (with some evidence on caucasian POWs also).

Officially: no. The US used these camps, but they called them "Japanese internment camps" and insisted that the conditions of these camps were completely fair. In truth, while they weren't quite like the German concentration camps, they were still awful.

False. they were just detention camps like the others above me have already answered. well, considering the brutality (the guards held guns) there have been people killed in some of these camps, like in Topaz, in utah, Tubercolosis was around and killed some people.

and there was one man that was shot from guards in the towers when he was bending over to pick something up because they thought he was trying to escape.

but I hope this answered your question. :)

false the us had japanese interment camps

False.