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Department of Justice camps

More than 5,500 Japanese immigrants (Issei) were arrested by the FBI following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most were sent first to temporary Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention stations and then transferred to Department of Justice (DOJ) internment camps, where they waited to appear before the Alien Enemy Hearing Board. These hearings determined whether the Issei would remain in the internment camps or be "released" to the War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps. After the hearings, most of the Issei were sent to U.S. Army internment camps. The U.S. Army, charged with detaining military prisoners of war (POWs), then returned the Issei internees to DOJ control. The DOJ camps also interned Italian and German nationals and Japanese Latin Americans. Most of the DOJ internment camps held only men who had been separated from their families, but three camps housed single women and families. The camps were run by the INS, part of the Department of Justice.

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Art Shibayama Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-151-10)
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Memories of Crystal City internment camp, Texas: first impressions, getting a job delivering ice
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Art Shibayama Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-151-11)
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Attending school in camp, meeting other Japanese Peruvians
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Art Shibayama Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-151-14)
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Learning English from a Japanese American Nisei; finding out that Peru didn't want the Japanese Peruvians to return
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Aya Uenishi Medrud Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-213-14)
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The difficulty of being separated from father
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Kazuko Uno Bill Interview I Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-211-21)
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Reuniting with father after his release from a Department of Justice camp
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Bill Nishimura Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-119-9)
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Awaiting expatriation to Japan, but instead, reuniting with father in Crystal City, Texas

This interview took place at the 2000 Tule Lake Pilgrimage in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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Bill Nishimura Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-119-8)
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Decision to renounce U.S. citizenship: "We really didn't have any choice"; forming the Hoshidan, moving to Santa Fe internment camp, New Mexico; a chaotic incident with the border-patrol

This interview took place at the 2000 Tule Lake Pilgrimage in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-119-8/
Maria Sato Interview Segment 8 (ddr-manz-1-165-8)
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First impressions of Crystal City
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Maria Sato Interview Segment 9 (ddr-manz-1-165-9)
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Daily life in Crystal City
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