Japanese Prejudism in the United States

Discriminations against the Japanese were heightening when the Chinese first immigrated in the
1800s when they were being used for cheap labor and tricking their minds into working for
cheap paying jobs. As the Japanese exceeded to come onto the US it built tensions. When
Discriminations against the Japanese have already grown through the eras of World War One and
two and effectively lead through years. How did the discriminations between the Japanese
Americans grow throughout the years that long term affected them? By which matter were their
Constitutional rights stolen?

Emmanuel Ortiz
Garcia and Stoll
October 20th 2014

The Discrimination towards the Japanese migration to the U.S. Have had an untold
history through the remarks of racism towards Asians in America. The Asian community were
always looked at as cheap labor. Most Japanese were being tricked by the Americans who
wanted them for cheap labor but the American history commonly displayed them as throughout
our American history. As the Americans history currently pushed the discrimination towards
other races throughout the history in America. Japanese discriminations have been a large aspect
when the chinese first migrated to the United States during the 1800's and they were used for
cheap manual labor. during that era of American history it has caused a racial thoughts against
asian immigrants coming to the United States. These Ifluences of prejudism had all began before
the era of World War two. The racial oppresion against these innocent Japanese have affected
them entirely even now until this day they are being discriminated against.As through the course
of American history the Asian community was usually dehumanized and tricked.First I will
explain the brief history that began the discriminatons towards the Japanese, then begin tot talk
about the discriminatory laws that began in the world war 1 era leading to the era of world war 2,
I will then begin to talk about the incarceration of the Japanese, then speak about the how the
Japanese Americans were treated in America, then how the Americans took away the Japanese
American rights inside these camps, and I will then explain how the Constitutional Rights were
taken away.
American history have done dicriminating things to the Japanese Americans through the
course of their history. The first encounter of discriminations towards Asians were during the
first migration of the Chinese to the United States, but since they were a different race they were
discriminated against constantly. Racial inequalities always ran through the United States for
plenty of years.The incarceration of the"Japanese Americans during World War II was the
culmination of a history of racial discrimination against Asians begun in the mid-1800s, when
the Chinese first immigrated to the U.S. (Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans
during World War 2)". The first encounter of discrimiantion towards asians were during the
Chinese immigrated to the United States. The discrimination was huge when the Chinese
migrated over to the United States. The Chinese were used for many of their purposes in the
United States during the mid 1800's they were being used for their own culminated purposes that
they wanted the Chinese which was a use of slavery in a way. The Chinese were used for cheap
labor as their source for cheap to them. The Japanese faced the same issues when they arrived to
America. Like the Chinese, "the Japanese had been welcomed at first as a source of cheap labor,
but shortly thereafter, became targets of anti-Asian campaigns, maligned as the "yellow peril."

They inherited much of the new prejudice directed previously against the Chinese, especially as
the Japanese...become owners of farms and small businesses (Prewar discrimination)". The
Japanese were also a source of cheap labor so the Americans can cheap them out of a good pay.
The big issue was that the Americans were using innocent people to use them for a source of
cheap labor which began racial thoughts about the Japanese as they progressed inside America.
The Japanese have progressed inside america and they were owning businesses and farms to start
their lives but this caused hatred inside the United States which started a campaign called AntiAsian Campaign which started the rough begginings of prejudism inside the United States that
has affected the Japanese Americans. They were being racially discriminated against all the time.
Not only the racism against the Japanese were built. The Americans began discriminatory laws
against the Japanese that violated many Japanese Americans rights.The "dicriminatory laws
passed during the early 1900's denied the Japanese the right become citizens, to own land, and to
marry outside of their race. In addittion, they could not buy homese in certain areas and were
barred from jobs in certain industries..(Prewar Discriminations)". This violated many of the
Japanese Americans rights inside America which all began way before the World War two era.
The Discriminatory law violated many Japanese rights inside the United States. The right to
pursue your happiness, freedom inside the United States was being taken away from innocent
Japanese that violated many peoples rights inside America. The United States denied their right
to become citizens which can happen to any American inside the United States, which started
many discriminatory opperessions towards the Japanese for no logical reason. Americans did not
let them acquire their own righs inside America so they were not able to own land or marry
outside their own race. This violated many rights that were inside the Constitution like the right
to your freedom, your liberty to be able to feel free inside America. The United States took their
the most important right for every man inside the United States that invaded the American policy
was to own your property. The Japanese Discriminatory laws have affected mostly in the 1900's
but they continued to pass many Dicriminatory laws towards the Japanese that going to become
Americans.
The racial oppressions across America against the Japanese grown stronger that affected
them entirely. The United States allowed to pass a law that Americans felt the need to keep the
Japanese Americans and keep them from having their natural rights inside the United States.
White contained "racial prejudice and hostility against Japanese Americans particulary those
living in the Pacific Coast are... discriminatory laws, such as 1905 California Anti-Misengration
laws, Law that forbid marriage of caucasians (Prewar Discrinmination)". This mainly focused on
the Japanese Americans who lived inside Hawaii, and California where mostly the Japanese
Americans were populated in. The United States did not allow the freedom to marry out of their
race which always destroyed their liberty to do things inside the United States. The United States
threw a law that did not allow Japanese Americans to marry outside their race which caused
many huge tensions of prejudism inside the United States against Japanese Americans but they
mostly focused on the asian community. As the years passed of prejudism against the asians
because Americans disliked their race so the Americans segregated them from the schools away
from the caucasians. 1906 San Francisco "law that madated Japanese and Chinese students

attend segretated schools. In 1924, pressure from West Coast legislators forced Congress to pass
the Oriental Exclusion Law that forbade Japanese from achieving U.S. citizenship... (Jerry
Morelock Japanese Interment during World War 2)". Americans segretated the Japanese
Americans during 1906 and the United States tried to keep the Japanese Americans away from
the schools that White Americans attended in but in 1924 they kept trying to pass law that did not
allow the Japanese to achieve their right to become a citizen inside America which destroys
peoples rights inside the United States. Many Discrimiantory laws have started to pass which
meant to try and keep the Japanese outside the United States. Americans began many
discriminatory laws that create hatred inside the United States because they disliked the race. The
Americans wanted them to be sent back to their country and so the Americans wanted to restrict
them from having any rights inside the United States so the Americns believed taking away
would keep them away from achieving the lawful rights for every man in America. Japanese
Americans considered "their efforts somewhat successful; while restrictive legislation finally
passed in 1923 prohibiting land ownership, it allowed renewable leases, making Idaho the only
state in the West where Issei could lease land." (Azuma, Eiichiro. A History of Oregons Issei,
1880-1952. Oregon Historical Quarterly 94:4 (Winter 1993-94) 315-367)". The Issei were
Japanese Americans inside America, and they were given this name to give them mark of their
prejudist remarks inside the United States. So the United States tore away their right to own land
in any place but, they took their whole right to pursue their own happiness inside the United
States. So they were prohibiting them from certain areas to live on. These areas were places that
only Japanese Americans lived. The strong efforts of the Japanese Americans ignored all the fact
their rights were taken away but as soon the Japanese Americans thought their lives were
beggining to be sucessful they thought wrong with the huge tensions that blew off the scale as
the United States already thought about the Japanese.
The Japanese called their shots as the tensions grew with allied powers and the Axis
powers were bringing their power and tensions began to build. The Japanese started to drop
bombs on Pearl Harbor that sparked the reasoning to take away even more of the Japanese
Americans rights inside America. The bombing of Pearl harbor lead to the reasoning to start their
war "On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and
Britain declared war on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of
Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066 (Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War
2)". The Exclusion Order 9066 was the order to replace the Japanese Americans into these
incarceration camps to keep them away from the other Americans because they were not trusted.
Right after the Pearl Harbor bombing the Japanese were all being incarcerated inside America
and sent off to basically these horrible camps that tore them away from their rights inside the
United States do to their untrustworthy towards the Japanese Americans. The majority of the
population was sent to the incarceration camp but, "despite the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not incarcerated en massee...Japanese Americans... Made up
nearly 40% of the population of Hawaii itself.. Pearl Harbor to step up calls to their removal"
(Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War 2)". The population of

the Japanese Americans were being sorely incarcerated into these law ripping camps that tore
them away and cheated them for their rights that affected them entirely. Pearl Harbor called for
their removal due to their to trust towards the Japanese Americans were ripped from their rights.
The United States kept esclating fear towards the Japanese Americans so the Americans can vote
on the right to keep the Japanese Americans out but the whole caused even more racism inside
the United States that tried running them down. Members of congress "escalated fear of us
among the American people. As early 1942, there was talk of imprisoning us. Many whites were
motivated by economic self-interest and were determined to destroy our businesses, which they
saw as "competition" (Japanese in Incaceration Camps)". The Japanese Americans were 'scaring'
the Americans but the prejudice remarks were just building through this time of era. The
Americans tried to take away their businesses and competed with them just to get them out of
business. The racism towards the Japanese Americans were always being torn away from them.
The Japanese Americans were taken to these internment camps but those camps took
away their natural rights. The rights of freedom of anything was all taken due to the war against
the Japanese which is unthoughtful because the Japanese Americans were all Americans who
were American born citizens but they were always torn away from their legal rights. The
treatment of the "Japanese Americans in the assembly centers and detention camps were a
form of cruel and unusual punishment on the basis that conditions were grossly inadequate.
Hospitals were understaffed, medical care poor and food was dietetically deficient." (Summary
of Constitutional Rights Violated)". So the Japanese Americans were recieving cruel and unusual
punishment because for no logical reason which tore them away form the Constitutional Rights.
The United States did unconstitutional acts to innocent Japanese who were Americans in the
country and they were violating the Amendment where you should not recieve any cruel and
unusual punishment. The Japanese were put into these camps were they had terrible conditions
that violated many of other American rights. The Japanese Americans are taken and burned from
their voting rights. The right to vote in "public elections was essentially denied to Japanese
Americans since they were prohibited from returning home to vote at their place of residence. No
provisions were made to enable them to vote absentee. Although elections were held in the
camps, the internee self-government had no power to regulate their own welfare or direct their
own destiny." (Summary of Constitutional Rights Violated)". The Japanese Americans were
stripped from their rights inside the United States and this violated the right for their citizenship.
The United States violated the Constitution Article 1 which limits the government from linited
and over powering their rights inside the United States. Japanese Americans were limited from
their public election and made them recive no actual power that gave the Japanese Americans
"self governement" so their voice were never heard only despised. Inside the interment camps the
Japanese Americans had no right or any direct welfare that were added to keep them safe, which
also violates the the Constitution by giving the Japanese cruel and unusual punishment inside the
interment camps. The interment camps were a huge proclamtion of violation that discriminated
the rights of the Japanese Americans. The "Presidential proclamations and orders, such as
Executive Order 9066 together with the enforcement bill, Public Law 503, made it a crime with
penalties to violate curfew and not to comply with the removal orders. Together, the orders and

public laws constituted a Bill of Attainder which was unconstitutional enactments against
Japanese Americans pronouncing them guilty without trial." (Summary of Constitutional Rights
Violated)". Executive Order 9066 was the order to replace every Japanese Americans that gave
them penalities if their curfew was violated they woud be jailed without trial. The United States
ordered for their removal of the Japanese Americans which offended the Constitution article 3
that does not allow the placement of the bill of attainders that set a law that takes away the
personal rights from an American. So the United States set them with no regulations to question
the enactment of the bill that destroyed the Japanese Americans rights entierly but the huge
violations of rights due to the Japanese race that left them discriminated against and torn away
from the natural rights from every other American. The United States got the flow of everyones
attention by making fear against the Japaese to get our consent of violating anotherAmericans
rights in our country and we let that happen.
The Dicscriminatory process that affected the Japanese Americans early on when they
arrived first insde the United States and the local Americans found them to be threat tht caused
their racism inside the United States. The first local beginning of Prejudism in the United States
all started when the Chinese first arrived in the United States that sorely discirminated them and
used them to start a cheap labor for the American companies. The United States mostly
Discriminations in the past have long affected the Japanese during these eras with the long
discriminations of the Japanese during mostly World War 2. The racism exceeds to spread across
the United States now until this day but the incarceration lead them to having no civil right but
racism across the United States continues to expel across the nation. Using the excuses that the
United States have done is actually unfair to discriminate and take away rights of others. Us as
Americans we have to watch an eye out for our rights that we recieve because they can be torn
away from you at any moment becuase the influence of ourselves to build up tensions inside the
United States to begin racism inside ourselves. The major issue to our lives is that maybe one
day our rights can be ruled and taken away from us in the United States. The majority of
Constituional rights violated by the United States govenrment can invade our rights and even our
natural rights for every citizen.

Works Cited
Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, The University of
California, 2014
Summary of Constitutional Rights Violated, pdf. article.
Azuma, Eiichiro. A History of Oregons Issei, 1880-1952. Oregon Historical Quarterly 94:4
(Winter 1993-94) 315-367

Jerry D. Morelock, War College, "Japanese American Internment During World War II", Dec 7,
2010. Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans by Greg Robinson
(Harvard University Press, 2001).