Report about Japanese Internment

Since the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC, many members of the Japanese American community have spoken out against the ill treatment of Muslim Americans. Sixty years ago, in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans became the victims of a widespread onslaught of racial discrimination and were viewed as a national security threat by both the general American public and the U.S government. Regardless of citizenship status, Americans of Japanese descent required registration and were subjected to random search and seizure raids, freezing of bank accounts, curfews, property confiscation including the seizure of all guns, short wave radios and cameras.