Why were Japanese Americans in Hawaii not forced to go to internment camps?
Since they lived far away from the mainland, they were not considered a threat.
Hawaii was not a state, so the laws did not apply to them.
Traveling to the camps would have been a long and difficult trip.
They made up one third of a multiracial society.
One reason why Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not forced to go to internment camps was because "Since they lived far away from the mainland, they were not considered a threat," since Hawaii was already under heavy guard as well.
