The Japanese Internment was the capturing of thousands of Japanese Americans. The Unites States took all Japanese Americans and put them into camps. They did this because they believed that the JA's needed to be watched. America was just recently bombed by Japan and did not know what the JA's that lived in America were thinking. They were not sure if they were safe from them so decided to capture them and put them away. The JA's were dsicriminated greatly. Even the JA's that had been born in the US were still put into camps.