![]() ![]() It was the greatest mass movement in the history of Canada. Nearly 23,000 Nikkei, or Canadians of Japanese descent, were sent to camps in British Columbia. ![]() In Canada, similar evacuation orders were established. More than two-thirds of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States. Roosevelt's executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, politicians who sided with anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was heightened by the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps-officially called "relocation centers"-in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, Franklin D. During World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were under lock and key by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco and Shmuel Ross ![]()
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