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Japanese American History
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In February 1942, ten weeks after Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 opened the way to removing every person of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast — some 120,000 people, two-thirds of them American citizens. Families sold farms, boats and businesses for a fraction of their worth, left homes they had bought in their children's names, and were sent to ten camps behind barbed wire, from Manzanar to Minidoka and Topaz on the high desert. No Japanese American was convicted of espionage or sabotage. In 1988 Congress apologized, naming race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.