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Japanese American incarceration

1942 – 1946 · na-japanese-internment

In February 1942, President Roosevelt gave the army authority to designate military zones and remove anyone from them. The Supreme Court upheld the incarceration in Korematsu v. United States in 1944, a ruling that stood for over seventy years before being formally repudiated in 2018. A commission concluded in 1983 that the measure had no military justification but arose from racial prejudice and a failure of political leadership, and the United States issued an official apology and redress in 1988. Canada did likewise in 1988. Property sold under compulsion was never returned.

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