Colonel Karl Bendetsen, the architect of the program, went so far as to say that anyone with "one drop of Japanese blood" qualified. California defined anyone with 1/16th or more Japanese lineage as a person who should be interned. The internment is considered to have been a manifestation of racism – though it was implemented to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose, the scale of the internment in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures which were undertaken against German and Italian Americans, who were mostly non-citizens. However, in Hawaii (which was under martial law), where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned. More than 112,000 Japanese Americans who were living on the West Coast were interned in camps which were located in its interior. Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps based on local population concentrations and regional politics. The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). About 80,000 were Nisei (literal translation: 'second generation' American-born Japanese with U.S. Of the 127,000 Japanese Americans who were living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. Roosevelt shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Approximately two-thirds of the internees were United States citizens.
In the United States during World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast, were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. And parts of Midwestern and Southern United States īetween 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast
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