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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Japanese were later than they thought they would be, so they missed the important aircraft carriers they were originally aiming for. However, they succeeded in making Americans paranoid of the Japanese.
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Executive Order 9066 enabled military commanders to designate exclusion zones. This meant that they could prohibit any person form entering a certain area. Basically it allowed them to make internment camps.
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The Navy told Japanese Americans living on Terminal Island near the Los Angeles Harbor that they had to leave their homes within 48 hours.
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On this date the first Japanese Americans arrive in Minidoka, Idaho
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The first Japanese Americans arrive at Granada or Amache, Colorado
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The first Japanese Americans arrive at Topaz, or Central Utah
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An article in a 1943 article from the War Relocation Authority stated that Japanese Americans were forced to live in "tarpaper covered barracks of simple construction without cooking or plumbing facilites of any kind"
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Shoichi James Okamoto was shot and killed by a guard for stopping a construction truck because it didn't have permission to enter the area. The guard would later be fined one dollar for "unauthorized use of government property". The government property was the bullet he used.
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In January 1946, the last Japanese internment camps were shut down for good.
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President Truman signs the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act, which gave out 28 million dollars to Japanese Americans to amend their financial losses.
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H.R.442 is signed by President Reagan. This gives individual payments of 20,000 dollars to all surviving Japanese Americans interned.
