"Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December, 1941.


Under pressure from anti-Asian organizations and politicians, the...government proclaimed that 'all people of Japanese racial origin' posed a threat to national security. Using the War Measures Act, the government initiated a systematic plan to remove all 21,000 men, women and children..." (source)





So Japanese Americans had to pack a few precious belongings and move to filthy, overcrowded internment facilities.