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Japanese American internment
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Internment of Japanese Americans
The
internment of Japanese Americans
in the
United States
was the forced relocation and incarceration during
World War II
of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of
Japanese ancestry
who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. Sixty-two percent of the internees were
United States citizens
. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ordered the incarceration shortly after
Imperial Japan
's
attack on Pearl Harbor
.
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