Declaration of Japanese American Internee Memorial Day

President Joe Biden on Sunday marked the anniversary of the tragic page in World War II history and apologized for the internment by then US authorities of ethnic Japanese, most of whom had the American nationality.Recall that 81 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order Number 9066 ordered the internment of ethnic Japanese living in the United States.”This marked the beginning of one of the most shameful periods in American history,” Biden said in a statement. “The wrongful internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans has torn families apart. Men, women and children have been forced from their homes, jobs, communities, businesses and way of life. sent to inhumane concentration camps simply for their origins. And in a tragic miscarriage of justice, the Supreme Court upheld this immoral and unconstitutional policy.”Despite this, 33,000 Japanese Americans volunteered or were drafted into the US military during World War II.”The imprisonment of Japanese Americans reminds us of what happens when racism, fear, and xenophobia are left unchecked,” President Biden said in a statement. “As we fight for the soul of our country, we continue to fight the corrosive effect of hate on our democracy and the trauma it inflicts on generations.”