The Terror: Infamy cast headed into an internment camp
Japanese internment camps were closed communities into which Japanese Americans were forced in the aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II. Fearing that those of Japanese ancestry in the United States might try to aid the Japanese, the U.S. military ordered Japanese Americans and other suspected individuals into these camps in the hopes of closing monitoring and controlling their activities. The use of these camps was considered one of the great horrors of World War II.
The use of the internment camps was authorized under Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in direct violation of Constitutional rights, as many of those incarcerated were U.S. citizens.[1]
One such camp is the Colinas de Oro War Relocation Center. Another was Tule Lake, a high security facility for those considered agitators. ("My Perfect World")
Beginning around January 1945, those interned in these camps could apply to leave if they had a sponsor and Leave of Camp papers. ("My Sweet Boy")
Not long afterwards, the camps were permanently shut down by order of the Supreme Court of the United States. ("Come and Get Me")
Behind the scenes[]
Instructions to move to internment camps
The second season of The Terror: Infamy is set in the 1940s, focusing on a group of Japanese Americans who experience exactly this. During their time there, they experience a series of bizarre hauntings based in Japanese legend and tied to revenge. The real-life experiences of George Takei (Yamato-san) and his family's experience in being sent to one of these camps during his youth, played an important role in the re-creation of one these camps on-set for the series.[2] For the The Terror: Infamy, the show's crew painstakingly re-created Japanese internment camp. The show staff talked with varoius survivors of the real-life internment camps, found a proper setting for their re-creation, chose an appropriate color palette, creating a feeling of always being watched, and layered in personal touches that were added by the Japanese-Americans to try in what way they could to make things feel like home.[3]