Japanese American internment

Quality:

Internment of Japanese Americans - mass incarceration, in the US, of Japanese during WWII. Article “Japanese American internment” in Simple English Wikipedia has 70.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Japanese American internment”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1405^th place) and edited by 2449 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5023 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #25 in February 2018
• Global: #733 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #281 in March 2021
• Global: #6753 in April 2008

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Internment of Japanese Americans		95.5868
2	Catalan (ca) Camps de concentració per als japonesos americans		95
3	Malay (ms) Penahanan warga bangsa Jepun di Amerika Syarikat		88.7534
4	Indonesian (id) Penginterniran orang Jepang-Amerika		75.8493
5	Japanese (ja) 日系人の強制収容		74.6798
6	Simple English (simple) Japanese American internment		70.5275
7	French (fr) Internement des Nippo-Américains		51.7124
8	Hebrew (he) כליאת היפנים בארצות הברית		48.5674
9	German (de) Internierung japanischstämmiger Amerikaner		47.7458
10	Russian (ru) Интернирование японцев в США		43.9589

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Internment of Japanese Americans		14 243 540
2	Japanese (ja) 日系人の強制収容		1 202 901
3	Russian (ru) Интернирование японцев в США		529 105
4	Spanish (es) Campos de internamiento para japoneses en los Estados Unidos		356 909
5	Chinese (zh) 對日裔美國人的囚禁		334 476
6	German (de) Internierung japanischstämmiger Amerikaner		274 191
7	French (fr) Internement des Nippo-Américains		234 855
8	Simple English (simple) Japanese American internment		205 143
9	Italian (it) Internamento dei giapponesi negli Stati Uniti		128 513
10	Portuguese (pt) Campos de concentração nos Estados Unidos		117 001

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Internment of Japanese Americans		43 657
2	Japanese (ja) 日系人の強制収容		3 283
3	Russian (ru) Интернирование японцев в США		1 855
4	Chinese (zh) 對日裔美國人的囚禁		1 832
5	Simple English (simple) Japanese American internment		1 343
6	Spanish (es) Campos de internamiento para japoneses en los Estados Unidos		1 053
7	French (fr) Internement des Nippo-Américains		937
8	German (de) Internierung japanischstämmiger Amerikaner		743
9	Italian (it) Internamento dei giapponesi negli Stati Uniti		743
10	Portuguese (pt) Campos de concentração nos Estados Unidos		305

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Internment of Japanese Americans		1 561
2	Japanese (ja) 日系人の強制収容		168
3	French (fr) Internement des Nippo-Américains		92
4	Spanish (es) Campos de internamiento para japoneses en los Estados Unidos		81
5	Hebrew (he) כליאת היפנים בארצות הברית		81
6	Russian (ru) Интернирование японцев в США		78
7	German (de) Internierung japanischstämmiger Amerikaner		77
8	Simple English (simple) Japanese American internment		69
9	Chinese (zh) 對日裔美國人的囚禁		49
10	Italian (it) Internamento dei giapponesi negli Stati Uniti		35

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Internment of Japanese Americans		9
2	Chinese (zh) 對日裔美國人的囚禁		2
3	German (de) Internierung japanischstämmiger Amerikaner		1
4	Arabic (ar) اعتقال الأمريكيين اليابانيين		0
5	Belarusian (be) Інтэрніраванне японцаў у ЗША		0
6	Catalan (ca) Camps de concentració per als japonesos americans		0
7	Czech (cs) Internace Američanů japonského původu		0
8	Greek (el) Εγκλεισμός των Ιαπώνων Αμερικανών		0
9	Spanish (es) Campos de internamiento para japoneses en los Estados Unidos		0
10	Persian (fa) بازداشت دسته‌جمعی ژاپنی آمریکایی‌ها		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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