Question

Why were Japanese Americans in Hawaii not forced to go to internment camps?

Since they lived far away from the mainland, they were not considered a threat.
Hawaii was not a state, so the laws did not apply to them.
Traveling to the camps would have been a long and difficult trip.
They made up one third of a multiracial society.

Answer 1

One reason why Japanese Americans in Hawaii were not forced to go to internment camps was because "Since they lived far away from the mainland, they were not considered a threat," since Hawaii was already under heavy guard as well.