After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States government began to become very suspicious of the different races living in the country, especially the Japanese. To ensure that nothing more happened, these internment camps were established which were basically “American concentration camps”. Japanese Americans faced many difficulties in these fields. The Japanese internment camps were extremely unfair to most Japanese Americans who had not engaged in sabotage or espionage for Japan during the war. However, it was a necessary effort to limit the activities of those who would attempt to harm the United States and the war effort. American military forces sent Japanese Americans to internment camps throughout the United States because they were afraid that there were Japanese American spies. between them. The conditions of the Japanese-American internment camps were very harsh for the Japanese due to the housing, food, and experiences they went through on a daily basis. Japanese citizens were given approximately 48 hours to leave their homes and were allowed to take only a few belongings with them. Approximately 120,000 Japanese were transferred to internment camps after Pearl Harbor. Sometimes entire families lived in one-room cells or barracks. Furthermore, they were fed about three times a day and the portions were small. Several people have died in these camps due to lack of medical care and stress. (Japanese-American Internment. US History, 2014) Initially, Japanese-Americans went to temporary relocation centers that were open areas surrounded by barbed wire. There were block arrangements and each had 14 barracks. Then they were taken to ten relocation centers. permanently managed by the War Relocation Authority. They were located in isolated areas such as... middle of paper......rican Gale, 2009. Web.21 March 2014. http://ic .galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query =&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=SUIC&action=e&catId=GALE%7CXGVMGS 047642054&activityType=&scanId=&documentId =GALE%7CEJ30 48400159&source=Bookmark&u=lans23427&jsid=8ac3e91566b7c7f69f15bf2818d20a83"Japanese-American Internment US History. 2014. Web. 20 March 2014. Japan launches surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941." GlobalEvents: Milestone events throughout history. Ed. Jennifer Stock. Vol.6: North America. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2013. Student Resources in Context. Network. March 20. 2014.