In Canada and in America, it is likely the Jodo Shinshu Buddhists
were targeted by the assimilated Japanese who were Christians, since
the word at the time said that the latter tried to claim that, since the Buddhists had ties to the Hompa back in Kyoto, Japanese Buddhists in the Americas were "the real enemies".
According to the history of Japanese-Canadian internment, there were separate prison camps for Christians and Buddhist.
Also for Buddhists without any Buddhist temple or means of establishing one, they either
converted, or privately practiced the rituals associated with their sect i.e. Pure Land, the Shingon, the Nichiren, and Zen.
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