After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 by Japan, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February of 1942 that led to the internment of Japanese American living on the West Coast. Japanese Americans in this part of the country were removed from their homes and sent to internment camps for the duration of World War 2.
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Americans - 1,794 killed / Japanese - 10,695 killed .
Japanese Americans born in America are American citizens. The term Japanese Americans means that they are of Japanese decent but live in the US.
About 307 Americans and about 2500 Japanese.
The government's reasoning behind isolating the Japanese-Americans was because the United States felt that they were not trust worthy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and that the Japanese-American's might try to attack the Americans.
Japanese-Americans .