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Also interesting: As far as I know the Japanese Americans where forced to sell land they own for close to nothing and where never reimbursed.

• nataz 5y ago
  Not just land. Bank accounts and personal property were also liquidated under duress.
  • dathinab 5y ago
    The think is, at least in some of the US states, there are major benefits for long term land holders (wrt. property tax) and some of the land once owned by Japanese Americans became very expensive (I have heard, as it was in Silicon Valley).
• WillPostForFood 5y ago
  There were reparations paid in 1988 - not saying that it was enough, or should count as reimbursement, but there was some financial acknowledgement. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which officially apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 (equivalent to $44,000 in 2020) to each former internee who was still alive when the act was passed. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."[30] By 1992, the U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion (equivalent to $3,500,000,000 in 2020) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned.[29][31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988
  • olliej 5y ago
    Fairly sure that they lost more than $20k. They lost pretty much all of their property and years of their lives. Claiming that there was any meaningful reparation is nonsense.