relocation center

Japanese: relocation center(英語表記)relocationcenter
relocation center


[Enemy Aliens during Wartime]
As of the end of 1941, there were 29,326 foreigners in Japan, but with the outbreak of the war, restrictions on travel and residence were imposed on them, and many of them were later interned in internment camps in Kitaashigara Village, Kanagawa Prefecture (now Minamiashigara City) and Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Japanese Americans 2,353 people were forcibly interned in 10 camps called "relocation centers (camps)" under President F. Roosevelt's Executive Order No. 9066 issued on February 19, 1942. Many of them lost their property, and from February 1943, men over the age of 17 were subjected to a loyalty test to determine whether they would join the U.S. military and whether they would be loyal to the United States.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "relocation center" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[戦時下の敵国人]
 1941年末現在,日本にいた外国人は2万9326名であったが,彼らは開戦とともに旅行や居住の制限を受け,彼らの多くはのちに神奈川県北足柄村(現,南足柄市)や長野県軽井沢などの抑留所へ収容された。一方アメリカ西海岸に在住していた日系アメリカ人万2353名は,F.ローズベルト大統領が公布した42年2月19日の大統領令第9066号により〈再定住センターrelocation center(camp)〉と呼ばれる10ヵ所の収容所などへ強制収容された。彼らの多くは財産を失い,17歳以上の男子は43年2月からアメリカ軍への参加とアメリカ合衆国への忠誠心の有無を調査する忠誠テストにかけられた。…

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