This is an excerpt from an academic source - a report by a government commission. it gives evidence that internment harmed japanese americans economically. list one detail that could serve as evidence that internment harmed japanese americans. done exclusion from the west coast imposed very substantial economic losses on the nikkei. the complete picture of those losses is a mosaic of thousands of personal histories of individual families. owners and operators of farms and businesses either sold their income-producing assets under distress-sale circumstances on very short notice or attempted, with or without government ,