Economic+Impact

Before the Japanese were interned,housing was a huge problem in Berkely. The United States as a whole was doing pretty good though.While getting ready to intern the Japanese,many people thought that more than 100,000 japanese would be the main cause of all this turmoil and confusion dealing with World War II.
 * __Economy Before__**

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought that the Japanese were a big help to the whole economy. Most of the Japanese were responsible for the goods that were produced during that time period.Many people were worried that the Japanese living in the United States were spies seeking to help Japan since the Pearl Harbor attack.The economy ordered many officers to go knocking on the doors of Japanese citizens in which most were living on the west coast at that time.

Before the War actually started most of the Issei were serving the United States as farmers or labors. More than one-third of the population on the West coast were Japanese farmers producing vegetables and fruits.
 * __Farming Before__**

About 45% were engaged in agriculture or were either managers,business owners,renters and irrigation experts.Around 24% of the Japanese were what made up wholesale and retail trade.17% were house servants,gardeners,and maids.Also, 4% were part of manufacturing and 10% were in commerce and other industries.3% of the Japanese population (about 3,100) living on the west coast were professionals which includes doctors,lawyers,nurses,architects,airplane designers,artists,and ministers.More than 1,000 of the young people there had been attending college.

After the evacuation housing was a huge problem once again. The amount of goods produced was also a problem.The Japanese couldn't find enough jobs so they couldn't produce any of the products they had earlier since they had lost just about everything during the war.
 * __After Evacuation__**

The apartments and homes they had lived in were no longer available to the Japanese.Either everything they owned was taken by unknown strangers or it was just no where to be found.Japanese suffered hardships during this time.It took them a while to get back on track with their normal lives.This was a huge impact on the nation and the many Japanese who got paid back not even a third of what they had lost while being interned.

The Japanese farmers came back to find that their crops had been taken or their land was all gone.This was very disappointing for many of them.Same thing with the businessmen who owned very large fishing businesses or companies.The interned Japanese farmers would probably lose 100 million dollars in investments.Their removal had caused a huge drain of farm labor.Japanese were responsible for 40% of vegetablesand nearly 100% of tomatoes,celery,strawberries,and peppers in California.
 * __Farmers And Businessmen After Relocation__**

Businessmen had lost all the hard work put into their companies.Most of them were owners of fishing boats and fishing companies.They lost 20,000 dollars for about one boat.This was a crisis for the Japanese.

Henry Murakami,a fisherman was arrested.He had lost three fishing nets worth about 22,000 dollars total.His family was given only 48 hours to pack their belongings.They owned a 3-bedroom house with kitchen.Henry and his family were forced to abandon everything the house contained.This included a 1940 Plymouth car.After the evacutation,everything they had owned was completely gone.Nobody ever found out what had happened to Henry and his family's belongings.
 * __Henry Murakami and Ekimoto__**

A man named Ekimoto was forced to sell his whole entire farm in order to pay his mortgage.He had lost around 23,000 dollars and was only paid 692 dollars back.

Well, most of the economic impacts came from the farmers and the businessmen.They were honestly doing their best to be loyal to the United States.The Japanese had helped this country a bunch in the earlier years before the war had even started.They did not deserve to lose any of their property or households. Much less be stranded in those internment camps and be forced to survive all those hardships for 4 years.