Was the internment of Japanese Americans a mandatory act of justice or was it an unjustified and redundant act of tyranny that violated the rights of Japanese Americans? During World War II, government officials told thousands of Japanese Americans that they had twenty-four hours to pack their bags, get rid of all their belongings, and sell their businesses for less than retail value. Although many people thought that the internment of Japanese Americans was necessary to ensure the security of the United States during the war against Japan, these relocation centers constituted unnecessary violations of the rights of Japanese Americans. These concentration camps are unconstitutional because they violate the First, Seventh, and Eighth Amendment rights of Japanese Americans. The argument for the opposing view states that these relocation centers were necessary to ensure the security of the United States during the war against Japan. One of the major contributing factors to these internment camps was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, the Republic of Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The government feared attacks by “Imperial Japanese forces” and sabotage by Japanese Americans (The Japanese Internment: World War II). Furthermore, the US military viewed the Nikkei, or Japanese immigrants, as a “potential security risk” and feared that the Nikkei could provide “sensitive information” to the Japanese government and/or subvert the US government (The Japanese Internment: World War II). . The FBI has begun compiling a "threat list"; the people on this list were to be arrested and detained (The Japanese Internment: World War II). The government believed it was a “military necessity” to intern Japanese Americans to prevent “espionage,… middle of paper… Valerie. "Japanese-American Internment." Reader's companion to the history of American women. 286-288. United States: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1998. Historical Reference Center. Network. February 11, 2014. Robson, David. “The Distinctive Features of Japanese Internment.” The internment of Japanese Americans. San Diego, CA: Landmark, 2014. Page No. Print.Robson, David. "Life in the fields". The internment of Japanese Americans. San Diego, CA: Landmark, 2014. Page No. Print.Robson, David. "War and Evacuation". The internment of Japanese Americans. San Diego, CA: Landmark, 2014. Page No. Print.Wukovits, John F. “Context of Evacuation.” Internment of Japanese Americans. Detroit: Lucent /Gale Cengage Learning, 2013. Page no. Print.Wukovits, John F. “The Evacuation.” Internment of Japanese Americans. Detroit: Lucent /Gale Cengage Learning, 2013. Page no. Press.