Title: Japanese Internment: A Haunting Look At Life Inside The Camps
Headings: Life Inside Japanese Internment Camps
Life Inside Japanese Internment Camps
These photographs reveal what daily life was like for the people living in Japanese internment camps of the United States during World War II.

Content: While some people entrusted their possessions with sympathetic neighbors, others would have to leave behind a lifetime of belongings, hoping that their homes would not be vandalized or burgled while they were away. National Archives and Records Administration; Records of the War Relocation Authority
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Despite such violations of basic rights, Japanese internment was almost universally accepted by the American people. The government never bothered to explain why Italian and German-Americans were not also sent to camps, and the military was not required or even pressured to provide concrete evidence that Japanese-Americans posed a threat to national security. Ansel Adams/Library of Congress
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Here, a Yugoslavian farmer stands on the farm he took over from interned Japanese-Americans. Japanese internment gave white farmers a chance to eliminate unwanted competition. PBS reported that one farmer told the Saturday Evening Post : “ If all of the Japs were removed tomorrow, we’d never miss them… because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows." In 1942, the agricultural coordinator for the Japanese-American Citizens League warned that Japanese farmers "stand to lose approximately 100 million dollars in investments” if the government confiscated or forced them to sell their land. By 1942, the Farm Security Administration had transferred more than 1,000 Japanese farms, totaling 50,000 acres, to new owners.