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

The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at ...

In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.

In 1942, he followed this up with Executive Order 9066, which ultimately forced 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent — nearly 70,000 of them American citizens — from their ...

Bellevue introduces "Emerging Radiance," honoring Japanese American farm families affected by WWII incarceration.

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history. Endo’s courage ...

She spent more than three years there, living under military guard with her parents, nine siblings, and some 10,000 other Japanese Americans ... effects of Executive Order 9066, which President ...