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They agreed to create concentration camps for Japanese people living in the United States.

82
years ago

19 February 1942,

It was approved to create concentration camps for Japanese people living in the United States. II. In the context of the World War, racism became extreme and ten open concentration camps and 120,000 Japanese people were arrested as a result of the decree signed by President Roosvelt. They kept them in humiliating human conditions, concentrated in areas of almost 10,000 people and imprisoned against their will.

Source:

James Singleton (Nippon Communications Foundation, August 15, 2018)

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