Discrimination Against Japanese Americans

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In the years, just before World War II, discrimination against Japanese-Americans was part of everyday life. Japanese were racially discriminated against and violated lifestyle and citizenship. Japanese-Americans were racially discriminated every aspect of housing, employment, education and so on. Furthermore, they were imprisoned on innocence. Consequently, U.S. relations with Japan had steadily worsened. Moreover, "the media constantly reinforced negative stereotypes of Japanese as troublemakers and spied in newspapers, movies, comic strips, pulp novels, and on radio." (47) After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the public began to fear the idea of Japanese Americans possibly aiding a Japanese invasion. Therefore, at some point before

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