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Japanese Internment Report

The internment of Japanese Canadians is a defining moment in Canadian History because of the huge impact it left that allows it still to be vivid in the minds of Canadians today.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941, Canadians accross the country were shocked and appalled at the brutality the Japanese had demonstrated. They were quick to accuse the Japanese Canadians that were living in Canada at the time for the pain their fellow race had inflicted upon Pearl Harbour. Within a few days of the attack 38 Japanese Canadians had been placed under arrest. During the next few months, the hardships on the Japanse Canadian community only increased. Any Japanese descedent, regardless of their current nationality was torn away from their families, homes and jobs and sent to work in internment camps which were located in B.C. Canada, a country which had been previously known as a land full of freedom and opportunity, now existed as a prison to......

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