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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 ...
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...
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.
Many draft-age Japanese American men were later sent loyalty questionnaires. If they affirmed allegiance to the U.S. and disavowed the Japanese emperor, they were drafted into service.
John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several California lawmakers noted the state’s direct role in discriminating against Japanese Americans and carrying out the federal government’s order to send residents to internment camps ...
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 ...