After all, the Japanese had provoked the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor, not the other way around. ... We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. ... About 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States were moved to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. ... After the Japanese ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. The attack on Pearl Harbor commanded by the imperial Japanese navy, as a profound military strike, led to an intense situation and domestic insecurity, ones lead the U.S. government shortly started to relocate and incarcerate nearly citizens of Japanese ancestry who lived on Pacific coast. ... There is some evidence to suggest the relationship between the father and the Emperor in Otsuka's novel, ...

• Word Count: 1101
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate