Even after the war, Yawamoto felt out of place because she had not shared the wartime experience. They lacked the cultural closeness of the Japanese in the camps. Young Judy and her family were outsiders in their own land, often treated as aliens. Those families had the freedom to move about, to take jobs, to establish businesses and farms in the interior of the country. That means they were required to move inland but were not incarcerated in camps. A much smaller number, fewer than 5,000, were voluntarily relocated. citizens, were forced from their West Coast homes and sent to relocation camps. In the anti-Japanese hysteria of World War II, tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, the majority of them U.S. Kawamoto (University Press of Colorado) Forced Out (University Press of Colorado) Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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