When did the last Japanese American detention camp close?

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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 last Japanese American detention camp, the high-security camp at Tule Lake, California, closed in March 1946. The U.S. government had announced in December 1944 that all relocation centers would be closed by the end of 1945.12