Black granite walls engraved with over 150,000 names of interned Japanese Americans will comprise the WWII Camp Wall at ...

But what’s so curious is that although Japanese Americans were viewed as a potentially hostile threat by mere reason of their ...

Mentioning Topaz or any internment camp can stir up unresolved feelings and questions for people with ties to those ...

Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. "Our family suffered a lot," ...

THAT HISTORY IS STILL IMPORTANT TODAY. ERIKO. IT MEANS A RECORD OF NAMES IN JAPANESE. IT’S BEING RECOGNIZED AS A LESSONS LEARNED IN OUR HISTORY. JEFF KAWAGUCHI’S PARENTS ARE TWO OF THE NAMES IN A SEA ...

The 10th grade World History and 11th grade US History classes at The Grauer School, an independent school in Encinitas, recently hosted Holocaust and Japanese American Internment speakers, ...

In 1942, Elaine Buchman Yoneda became the only Jewish woman on record to be imprisoned in an American concentration camp, along with her Japanese-American husband and 3-year-old son.

The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of ...

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole.The order came in the wake of the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators are expected to pass a resolution condemning the state’s role in the U.S. government’s internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Wednesday marked the anniversary of one of the first and most infamous uses of a presidential executive order. Executive Order 9066, issued in 1942, led to the incarceration of 120,000 people of ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forcible relocation of more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent — at least 70,000 of whom were American citizens ...