The major impact of World War II on Japanese Americans was, of course, the internment of the Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. The internment disrupted their lives for years and it cost many of them a great deal of money. This was because they lost personal property that they had to leave behind when they were sent to the camps.
In a related effect, this ended up spreading the Japanese American population away from the coasts after the war. There came to be many Japanese families who ended up living in places inland after the interment was over.
Japanese Americans were also affected because many of them fought in the war, but this is no different from the experience of other groups.
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