The lives of Japanese-Americans were turned upside down after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order ...

As Japantown residents and community leaders prepared to gather this weekend to mark the anniversary of the forced internment ...

Wednesday marks 83 years since the signing of a presidential executive order that sent roughly 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans to internment camps.

The event aimed to highlight the parallels between Japanese Americans’ incarceration during World War II and President Donald ...

Too many Americans actively supported wartime roundup out of fear, racial prejudice and bigotry. Will it happen again?

"We are angry that this current administration is actually using the template of Japanese Americans' forced removal and mass incarceration as a blueprint to target immigrants. This is a campaign of ...

It’s been a great relationship ... it’s so important in today’s environment that history not repeat itself,” Hirai said.

The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at the Washington State Fairgrounds on Feb. 8.

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, businesses, personal property.

Los Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker introduced a motion Wednesday calling for the preservation of two buildings from the ...

Tsuru for Solidarity planned on hosting a Day of Remembrance and Resistance event at Pike Place Market on Feb. 19, with the ...

Two buildings left from a Japanese American fishing village will be considered for historic-cultural monument status.