Before World War II, Japanese Americans played a great role in our society. Many of them worked in sugar plantations, established farms or small businesses. The Japanese Americans knew that things couldn’t stay good for long. Multiple groups were formed against them and laws and treaties were …show more content…
Families were housed in barracks; sometimes the whole family would live in one cell. There were also communal areas for washing laundry and eating. Mine Okubo, a prisoner in a California camp says, “The camps represented a prison: no freedom, no privacy, no ‘America’”. US Military and barbed wire guarded the camps. According to Okubo, the meals served were starchy, dull and served in small portions. There was no milk for anyone over the age of five and very rarely was there meat. There was not enough food served to keep the ‘prisoners’ healthy because of their heavy