y loss suffered by the Japanese-Americans resulted from various events and attitudes spurred by United States entering the war against Japan. Firstly, Japanese-Americans had suddenly become the face of the enemy to many (in fact, most) Americans. Japanese-American immigrants could no longer identify themselves as future citizens of the Unites States (a right denied to them by then American law); neither could they find solace in their ancestry, as their very bloodline condemned them. One can imagine then the devastation actual United States citizens who were of Japanese ancestry suffered when on “December 8, 1941, the Department of Justice issued the first federal regulation ...which discriminated directly against American citizens of Japanese ancestry... by closing the borders of the United States... to all persons of Japanese ancestry, whether citizen or alien” (Daniels, 27). Adding to the situation, the Japanese-Americans could not escape the many slanderous signs and newspaper articles depicting and describing them as “Nips”, “Japs”, and “yellow people”.

Finally, the loss of humanity suffered by the Japanese-Americans stemmed from many sources. The humiliation they felt from seeing the slanderous signs posted at every corner demeaned the existence of the Japanese-Americans. The fact that they were not wanted in society- that they were a disposable race of people- left them reeling for some sort of compassion. “Eisenhower saw no alternative to the unhappy one of creating the camps...where people could live in modest comfort...do useful work...and thus retain as much self respect as the circumstances permitted” Daniels, 57). The incarcerated did not find compassion, much less self respect. The conditions of the internment camps were barely livable, mostly void of any comfort. Improper sanitation in the mess halls led to severe breakouts of diarrhea and the bathrooms were consisted usually of just one long plank of wood positioned over one lo

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