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Kyoko Oda is one of nine survivors of the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans featured in “The Age of ...
New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the ...
With the rhythmic pounding of taiko drums echoing through Don Biddle Community Park, a large group of Japanese Americans and ...
Moon Equipment made hundreds of such speed parts. The company was started by American hot rodder Dean Moon in the 1950s, but ...
This weekend, Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki will become the first Asian player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Manzanar, Tule Lake, Minidoka, Topaz, Jerome, Rohwer, Heart Mountain, Gila River, Poston, Amache — these are the names that ...
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 ...
If you know a Japanese American, it’s more than likely it happened to their family.” A Japanese family coming from their farm arrives in Hayward, Calif., on May 8, 1942.
Japanese Americans returned to Manzanar National Historic Site over the weekend for a landmark event — the first baseball games played there since World War II. The site is where the former Manzanar ...
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 ...
Takei's children's book, "My Lost Freedom," is an autobiographical account of his experience as a 5-year-old in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
Manzanar was an internment camp, and is now a historical site to honor the Japanese Americans who were relocated there. Arnold Maeda was a member of the VJAMM Committee who helped fund the monument.