Japanese Americans During WWII During W.W.II over 110,000 Japanese Americans living both in the United States and abroad were uprooted, without due process, and placed in detention camps, or internment camps. These Japanese Americans lost their homes and their business. They were only allowed to take what they could carry and forced into the most inhospitable areas our country had to offer. Our most hallowed judicial court, the US. Supreme Court, stated, in three different cases, that this suspension of due process was perfectly fine with them because of a "military necessity" This “military necessity allowed innocent American civilians to be arrested, ja