Japanese American internment and changing terminology

Were Japanese Americans put in concentration camps during the Second World War?

They were interned on the basis of ancestry. The period's broader use of concentration camp differed from a death camp, and the imprisonment is condemned.

Japanese Americans were confined, and different sources may use either internment camp or concentration camp. In the historical usage discussed here, concentration referred to political internment and did not by itself mean an extermination centre. The American camps are sharply distinguished from Nazi death camps without treating confinement as acceptable. Imprisoning people on the presumption that Japanese ancestry made them disloyal was false and unjust. The exchange separates a term's period meaning from its later associations while retaining judgment about the policy itself.