Western Hemispheric Security and the U.S.: Japanese Peruvian Wartime Incarceration During World War II
Western Hemispheric Security and the U.S.: Japanese Peruvian Wartime Incarceration During World War II

Summary/Abstract: Following the participation of the United States of America (U.S.A.) in World War II in 1941, the U.S. incarcerated 120.000 Japanese Americans during the war under the pretense of “military necessity”. At the same time, with the claim of guaranteeing the security of the Western Hemisphere, the U.S.A. coerced Latin American countries to deport thousands of their Japanese descendent citizens and place them in the custody of the U.S.A. among them, Peruvian Japanese citizens were kidnapped, taken to the U.S.A., and incarcerated indefinitely. This paper focuses on the incarceration of the Japanese Peruvians in the camps and their lives during and aftermath of World War II within the context of universal human rights and international law. This period in the history of the Americas has resulted in the breaching of internal and universal human rights legislation besides enduring human suffering.

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