On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the air bases on the Pearl Harbor islands. The “sneak attack” targeted the US Navy. It left 2,400 soldiers dead and more than a thousand Americans injured. The US Navy called it “one of the great defining moments in history”1. President Roosevelt called it a “day of infamy.” 2 As this attack shook the nation, Japanese Americans became the immediate “focal point.” At that time, approximately 112,000 people of Japanese ancestry resided in coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and California and Arizona.3 Large numbers of Japanese initially emigrated to Hawaii in the late 18th and early 19th centuries due to the huge Hawaiian sugar boom. industry. They also entered California as domestic and unskilled workers. Over time, they acquired land or built businesses. The native-born Japanese population grew rapidly, and by 1930 it exceeded that of the Japanese-born by eighty percent. Japanese immigration created the same apprehension and intolerance in the minds of Americans as did Chinese migration to the United States at the turn of the year. the 19th century. They developed a fear of being overwhelmed by a people with a distinct ethnicity, skin color and language that made them “unassimilable”. So they wanted the government to restrict Asian migration. Japan's military victories against Russia and China reinforced this sense that the Western world was facing what became known as the "Yellow Peril." This was reflected in the media, films, literature, and journalism.4 Anti-Eastern public opinion gave way to several declarations and laws aimed at restricting Japanese prosperity on American territory. Despite prejudice and ineligibility to obtain citizenship, the middle of paper belonged to that era. " As cited in Weglyn, Michi N. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps, 1976, University of Washington Press, 21. Robinson, Greg By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans, 2003, Harvard University Press22, Free to Die for Their Country: The History of Japanese-American Conscription in World War II 2001, University Of Chicago Press 1 edition23. Japanese origin during World War II 1993, Hill and Yang.24. Inc.25.Griffin, David Ray The new Pearl Harbor revisited: 9/11, the cover-up and the expose 2008, Olive Branch Press26, Glover Julian, « Guantanamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence” in The Guardian, April. 25, 2011