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Decision to incarcerate

Chronology of Evacuation and Relocation

This document describes in detail the chronology of "evacuation and relocation" after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_01-22_01
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Chronology of evacuation and relocation

Title: "A Chronology of Evacuation and Relocation." This document describes in detail the chronology of "evacuation and relocation" after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Report No. 6-1879-BU-COS-WP. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9918. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_wells_0918
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Satoshi Kuwamoto interview

Oral history interview with Satoshi Kuwamoto. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_KUWAMOTO_SATOSHI
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Toshiye Hirose interview

Oral history interview with Toshiye Hirose. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_HIROSE_TOSHIYE
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Izumi Taniguchi interview

Oral history interview with Izumi Taniguchi. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: SCRC_TANIGUCHI_IZUMI
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Administration

Suggestions for Resolutions about Evacuees of Japanese Ancestry

This document talks about the suggestions for the resolutions about the Japanese Americans who are forced to evacuate. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_01-05_01
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Extracts from statements regarding the Americans of Japanese Ancestry

This document is a text of letter sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, which mainly talks about the President approving the proposal of the War Department to organize a combat team consisting of loyal American citizens of Japanese descent. See this object in …
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Japs-First Bloc

This document is the article "Japs-First" BLOC by Helen Fuller from the New Republic Magazine, vol. 108, no. 22, number 1487, which talks about whether the war strategy should have been reversed. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_02-02_02
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Alien Enemy Program--So Far

This is an article from the magazine "Common Ground," summer 1942, which talks about the classification of the Japanese American people as enemies after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It discusses about the Act of 1798 which states that an alien enemy is a person who is an alien who …
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Constitutional principles involved in the relocation program

This document is the statement by the Director of the War Relocation Authority regarding the constitutional principles involved in "the relocation program" as the program raises important questions of constitutionality. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_02-19_02
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