Question

The Hawaiian Islands were closest to Japan, experienced a Japanese attack, and had a large Japanese population, and yet most Japanese Americans living in Hawaii were not subjected to the same internment experienced by Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Why?

Answer 1

The US government figured that if there were people that were spies on Hawaii then they would have left before the attacks, even so, there were still some instances of Japanese population segregation. And the reason that The Western Coast had the most of it was because the US expected the next attack on the US to be at San Fransisco or Los Angeles.

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