Concentration camps

The War Relocation Authority (WRA) oversaw construction of ten concentration camps in sparsely populated and isolated areas. Between June and October 1942, Japanese Americans were transferred from the "assembly centers" to the larger camps. Housing approximately 120,000 people, the camps were designed to be self-contained communities, complete with hospitals, post offices, schools, warehouses, and residential areas. The WRA attempted to establish normalcy by setting up newspapers, a degree of self-government, sports leagues, and social events. But confinement, monotony, and harsh conditions exacerbated tensions between pro- and anti-camp administration residents and between the disempowered Issei and their U.S.-born Nisei children. At several centers, conflicts erupted into violence and at the Manzanar concentration camp the unrest resulted in fatal shootings. The WRA gradually granted work and school leave to those they considered "loyal." The last camp closed in March 1946.

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img Michio Shinoda and children (ddr-densho-518-174)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Mrs. Michio Shinoda and kids.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-174/

img Muck and Chunaka Fujihira (ddr-densho-518-175)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Muck and Pop.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-175/

img Nobi Sato playing baseball (ddr-densho-518-150)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Nobi Sato.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-150/

img Portrait of Michio (ddr-densho-518-119)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Michio.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-119/

img Portrait of Haggie Nakashima (ddr-densho-518-154)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Haggie.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-154/

img View of Minidoka (ddr-densho-518-279)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-279/

img Portrait of Fred Kohara (ddr-densho-518-88)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Fred Kohara.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-88/

img Ayako in a flower garden (ddr-densho-518-51)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Ayako [Yamanaka].

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-51/

img Five people sitting among flowers (ddr-densho-518-294)

Ayako Yamanaka is to the left of the standing man. Amy Mukai is to the right of the standing man.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-294/

img Three men walking (ddr-densho-518-223)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: [left to right] Bosko, Jinks, Ich..

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-223/

img Men walking down a path (ddr-densho-518-171)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: [left to right] Jim, Abe, Fred, Richard, Hiro, Tsu, James, Muck.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-171/

img Nine people posing outside a building (ddr-densho-518-89)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-89/

img Frank Okita and baby (ddr-densho-518-69)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Frank Okita and Baby.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-69/

img Minidoka honor roll (ddr-densho-518-23)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-23/

img Tod and friends in a flower garden (ddr-densho-518-45)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: [left to right] Ayako Yamanaka, Michi Hada, Tod [Fujihira], Amy Mukai.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-45/

img May Morinaga at the post office (ddr-densho-518-112)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Post Office, May Morinaga. See also ddr-densho-518-192.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-112/

img Mr. Aldrich and Yoshie Fujihira (ddr-densho-518-62)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Al. Aldrich.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-62/

img Portrait of Naggie Nakashima (ddr-densho-518-140)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Naggie Nakashima.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-140/

img Group on steps (ddr-densho-518-158)

Written next to photograph in scrapbook: Mrs. Nakashima, Tomi Hamasaki, Fred Izumi, Haggie Nakashima, Harry Nakashima, Hank Ozawa, Wienie Hiroshige, Roy Izumi, Sat Hirata.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-518-158/