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During World War II the United States government removed approximately 117,000 Japanese Americans and other Japanese people groups from Alaska, parts of Arizona, and the West Coast of the United States. On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Presidential Executive Order 9066 authorized this removal. By October of 1942 the U.S. government had moved 110,000 people to ten semi-permanent new cities. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) called these cities “relocation centers.” The ten WRA Relocation Centers shown in the map below are collectively known as Japanese American confinement sites.
