The internment of Japanese Americans was the World War II internment in 'War Relocation Camps' of over 110;000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942; shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned; while in Hawaii; where 150;000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population; only 1;200 to 1;800 were interned. Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens. Pictures From History