· The larger Japanese population on Hawaii (about 150,000) was mostly not interned Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. About 80,000 were nisei ("second generation"; Japanese people born in the United States and holding American citizenship) and sansei ("third generation"; the sons or daughters of nisei). The rest were issei ("first generation"; immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship). · 1988 Congress passed a bill apologizing for the internment. The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.
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