ABSTRACT
JAPANESE-AMERICAN WOMEN More than 110,000 American residents of Japanese heritage were forcibly interned in what were essentially concentration camps during World War II. About two-thirds had been born in the United States and thus were citizens, but Japanese Americans were arrested without warrants and held without charges, many for the duration of the war and even longer. Most lost the property they were forced to abandon. Especially for the home-centered women, it was a terribly traumatic experience.
