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who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned. Sixty-two percent of the internees were American citizens. *Feb. 19, 1942 ­ President Roosevelt designated military strategic areas on the West coast · March 18, 1942 ­ order to relocate all individuals of Japanese ancestry from the stragegic areas · Up to 120,000 Japanese were transported to 10 relocation centers · 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