This week marks 84 years since more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans—many from the Bay Area—were sent to internment camps during World War II. Gu and Zhu Yi, a fellow American-born athlete who now ...
More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
A woman who survived a Japanese internment camp back in the 1940s believes President Trump's new border policies are bringing back old memories. "I never dreamed that I would be alive to see this ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo — The United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II. Mark Saito, a son of Niseis, grew up hearing stories of his ...
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," ...
Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands forced change.
Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo is ...
Like other Americans, Saburo Masada vividly remembers Dec. 7, 1941. He and his family were working on a newly purchased farm in California. While taking a break, they turned on the radio to listen to ...
In a desolate valley of Southern California’s high desert, an act of restoration is unfolding that befits the resolve of the intended honorees. With every prickly chunk of cleared tumbleweed, every ...