Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'Japanese American internment'

The mass incarceration of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, primarily American citizens, in government camps during World War II following Executive Order 9066. This policy, motivated by wartime hysteria and racism rather than legitimate security concerns, represents one of the most significant violations of civil liberties in American history and led to decades of activism for recognition and redress.

What If Japanese Americans Were Never Interned?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States government did not authorize the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, fundamentally altering the nation's civil rights trajectory and Japanese American community development.