government, and in 1988, when President Ronald Regan signed a bill ordering reparations for each surviving internee. In the 1960s, a younger generation of Japanese-Americans began a campaign for public acknowledgement of the internment process they achieved success in 1976, when President Gerald Ford publicly apologized for internment on behalf of the U.S. Most interned families suffered serious economic and material losses as they had to sell possessions and land at a loss, and what they left behind was often stolen. Most prominent newspapers and many Caucasian trade unions who saw the Japanese as competition supported internment and stoked fears of Japanese espionage. About 120,000 Japanese-Americans were affected, most of whom were American citizens. Shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed the military to “exclude” Japanese-Americans from the West Coat and confine them in government-operated concentration camps.
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