See what everyday life was like for people inside America’s Japanese internment camps in the photo gallery below:Like this gallery? Japanese internment gave some white farmers a chance to eliminate unwanted competition. According to the Digital Public Library of America's exhibit on Japanese internment, "religious organizations advocated for fairer treatment of Japanese Americans, while working to Americanize them through religious indoctrination." And when 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced into internment camps, the conditions were anything but comfortable. Internment in the camps also had long-lasting psychological effects on the Japanese Americans who were held within.