The U.S. Office of War information film was created to communicate with the American people the means of the internment of the Japanese. The government needed to explain why they were uprooting Japanese families and requesting that they sell their businesses and farms, leave their homes and relocate to camps in the West. This film was used to promote both information and acceptance by the American people. Additionally, it was used to assure the white Americans that the government was answering the threats from Japan, seeking protection for the country, while also treating its citizens, both citizens and aliens, with superior care and compassion. The film was widely circulated to promote that stability was being restored to the nation and that people ought not live in fear. 



The film portrayed internment as a "new horizon" for the Japanese Americans. The government's agenda in the film was to depict the Japanese as being given a new opportunity in the West, by giving them new land, within the bounds of the camps. This "new land" was theirs to cultivate and prosper. Under the government's impression, they were doing a service to the Japanese by giving them this “free land” in the West. The access to this free land relates to Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis—the whole existence of free land is what defines the West and cultural values in the U.S--and it is quintessential to what makes America, America. The government was then able to make a claim that the internment camps were about "Americanization." By taking people who were marginally American and placing them into internment camps, the process of Americanization would come to fruition. What the government failed to tell the American people was that two-thirds of the interned Japanese were already American citizens. 

The government claimed in the film that the internment was a migration of the Japanese to the West. By choosing to use the term "migration" the government was insinuating that the Japanese were voluntarily selling and moving to new lands. Relocation is a better term; as migration is closely associated with a voluntary, self-directed action, relocation encompasses mandated or forced action. Relocation of the Japanese Americans was the intention of the government through the creation of the Executive Order 9066. 

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The film established a motive. It attempted to justify Executive Order 9066 and the military actions against the Japanese Americans. The federal government aimed to give military justification through the depictions of the militants looking at the maps of populated Japanese in the West. They sought to give rationale to the military order by demonstrating to Americans that the number of Japanese dominating the West coast was a threat to the national security of the nation. The implementation of Executive Order 9066 and internment, American citizen life, liberty and property would be considered more safe.