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How did the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 compensate Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated?

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Japanese American internment: dispossession — Executive Order 9066 Restaurant “under new management” as a result of the U.S. government's relocation order for Japanese Americans during World War II.

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 compensated Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II by awarding each of the approximately 60,000 living individuals $20,000 and issuing a formal apology from the U.S. government. This act acknowledged that a "grave injustice" had been committed against Japanese American citizens and resident aliens during the war. The underlying causes of the internment program were identified as race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.123

Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized the exclusion of individuals from designated military areas, which was applied to Japanese Americans on the West Coast. This led to the forced relocation of over 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps, where they endured harsh conditions and lost property and businesses.4215