After the Pearl Harbor incident, how did the United States treat the Japanese in the United States?

After the Pearl Harbor incident, how did the United States treat the Japanese in the United States?

Now the world is open, and residents move freely. Almost every country has expatriates from foreign countries or enemy countries. Once these expatriates encounter war or hostile actions, they will suffer. During World War II, after Japan launched the Pearl Harbor incident, Japanese expatriates suffered misfortune. So how did the United States treat these hundreds of thousands of Japanese expatriates? On December 7, 1941, after Japan launched the Pearl Harbor attack without declaring war, the U.S. government immediately launched retaliatory actions, and Japanese expatriates were the first to be targeted. There are mainly three policies.

First, isolate immediately.

On the second day after the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States announced that all Japanese expatriates in the United States would be regarded as suspects of espionage, and all welfare benefits and citizenship treatment for Japanese expatriates would be suspended. And isolation points began to be established to isolate Japanese expatriates separately, that is, just like criminals, they were directly isolated and lived.

The second is, complete confiscation.

At the same time, the U.S. government announced that all private property, real estate, stocks, securities and other properties of Japanese expatriates will be directly confiscated. Each person can only carry 70 kilograms of clothing, and then all of them are expelled to the construction site. And in order to prevent these residents from collaborating with the enemy, U.S. government personnel would suddenly come to the door from time to time to conduct various inspections. And in the process, the property found was also confiscated, making him a complete criminal.

Third, complete blockade.

Order that all companies and farmers in the United States cannot hire Japanese, and existing Japanese employees must be cleared immediately and not allowed to work. And it got to a very tragic level. At that time, a farmer hired five Japanese employees for cheap. These five Japanese people basically had their ancestors in the United States for generations, and they were all Americans. But when some radical citizens found out about it, they immediately expelled them and beat them. Even the farm was burned down and the owner of the farm was beaten half to death.

It can be said that the Japanese expatriates in the United States at that time were basically street rats, and everyone shouted to beat them. Not only did he lose all his money, but he also had no way to protect his personal freedom. It was extremely sad. And this was not over yet. At that time, the United States implemented a mercenary system, and in order to atone for their sins, many Japanese joined the army and were dragged to the European battlefield by the US military to fight against the Germans and serve as cannon fodder.

After the Pearl Harbor incident, anti-Japanese sentiment began to erupt in the United States, and many Japanese living in the United States became the targets of their revenge. Soon they became the fifth column known as "American traitors", and the Japanese were even publicly declared as "foreign enemies." How strong is the American sentiment for revenge? On the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, California took the lead in beginning the "purge" of the Japanese. The licenses of Japanese doctors and lawyers who were working normally had their licenses revoked immediately. Japanese fishermen were strictly prohibited from fishing.

Japanese people’s insurance policies in the United States were canceled. On many buses, there are signs stating that Japanese people are strictly prohibited from sitting on chairs. When queuing up to buy tickets, if there is a Japanese person in front of the line, she will be scolded, "Go to the back, Japs." The Japanese have to hide at the end of the line and line up again.

The overwhelming anti-Japanese slogans have hindered Japanese life in the United States. The milk company refused to deliver milk to the Japanese, the power supply company refused to provide electricity to the Japanese, and the Japanese who originally rented American houses to live in , were forcibly kicked out, causing many Japanese to live on the streets, and were looked down upon and ridiculed by white people passing by.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the entire United States' opposition to the Japanese. Unlike many Americans who openly hated the Japanese, many Americans used their dry humor to intimidate the Japanese. How do barbershops contain Japanese people? Many barbershops have slogans hanging on their doors: Japanese people come to our shop for haircuts. If an accident occurs, the shop will not be responsible.

Japanese overseas Chinese are discriminated against.

After the war, as U.S.-Japan relations improved, the United States began to re-examine this inhumane policy. Finally, in 1988, the U.S. government expressed its apology to the Japanese victims during the war, and finally compensated them or their descendants* **Compensation totaling approximately US$1.6 billion.

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