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

California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...

George Takei recalls being wrongfully imprisoned as a child in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II and ...

Santa Cruz's Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who died in December, left behind a legacy of bringing light to a dark period in American history, with her landmark memoir, "Farewell to Manzanar." A ...

Crews have cleaned up most of the damage done by an act of vandalism that targeted a historic mural in the Japantown area of Seattle's CID neighborhood.

Japanese language and culture have been developing for thousands of years, offering a full and rich history, including books, stories, poetry, and arts including cuisine, calligraphy, painting, and ...

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese ... camps” or the more euphemistic “internment ...

Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...

Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...