Why were Japanese Americans living on the West Coast treated differently than Ja

While almost twice as many Japanese Americans lived in Hawaii than on the West Coast, they were not interned. They constituted almost half of the population of the islands, and the entire economy of Hawaii would have collapsed if the Japanese community had been interned, and there would have been no place to put them and no one to guard them. Japanese Americans on the West Coast, in contrast, were a small minority, living in scattered communities. Taking advantage of wartime conditions, large agricultural concerns and anti-Japanese organizations put pressure on the government to force Japanese Americans out of Washington, Oregon, and California. In the end, the vast majority of them were incarcerated in interment camps for the duration of the war.