GLOSSARY
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| Term | Definition |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Legislation that ended all further Japanese immigration to the United States. |
| Incarceration | The state of being in prison, or being confined. |
| Incarceration camps | Camps administered by the U.S. War Relocation Authority to detain Japanese Americans during World War II. These were prisons surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards and where inmates could not leave without permission. The U.S. War Relocation Authority called these camps "relocation centers." |
| Infantry | A branch of an army composed of soldiers trained, armed and equipped to fight on foot. |
| Internment camps | Camps administered by the Justice Department for the detention of enemy aliens (not U.S. citizens) deemed dangerous during World War II. Most of the several thousand people in these camps were Issei and Kibei who had been rounded up after the attack on Pearl Harbor because they were perceived as "dangerous." "Internment camp" is used by some to describe the "incarceration camps." The term "internment" is problematic when applied to U.S. citizens. Technically, internment refers to the detention of enemy aliens during time of war, and two-thirds of the Japanese Americans incarcerated were U.S. citizens. |
| Interrogate | To question formally and systematically. |
| Inu | "Dog" in Japanese. This term was used in the incarceration camps to refer to Japanese Americans who were suspected of informing authorities about "suspicious" incarcerees. |
| Invasion | A hostile entry of an armed force into a country's territory, especially with the intention of conquering it. |
| Issei | First generation Japanese who immigrated to the United States. |
