important facts

#1

• More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan.

#2

• -Japanese-Americans are also known as ‘Nisei' in North and South America and Australia, which is a term that means children born to Japanese people.

#3

• The U.S. Army eventually decided to allow the prisoners to leave the camps if they joined the U.S. Army but only 1,200 took the option

#4

• The last Japanese internment camp in the United States was closed in 1945

#5

• In 1988 surviving prisoners were awarded $20,000. Only 60,000 prisoners of the internment camps were still alive.