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A three-part monument called “Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration" is now on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
A Japanese American returns to the WWII internment camp where she was once held -- now a national landmark. ... There was a 10 percent volunteer rate among detainees, among the highest of any group.
Japanese Americans are still trying to grasp the impact of WWII on their families NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong, host of the Inheriting podcast, about the far-reaching consequences of ...
Mukai, a volunteer with Tsuru for Solidarity, is also co-chair of the Japanese American Youth Alliance, which works to empower and unite young Japanese Americans in Northern California. KC Mukai, of ...
Topline: It's an end of an era for the country’s only Japanese American daily newspaper. After 122 years in Los Angeles, The ...
American airmen trekked to a hilltop to remember fallen bomber crews and Japanese citizens killed in a World War II air raid ...
During WWII, baseball united Japanese-Americans held in U.S. internment camps. This weekend two Japanese teams played at the remote Manzanar internment camp, the first games there since the war ended.
WWII INTERNMENT TIMELINE. August 18, 1941 In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ...
MASS Design Group is creating a memorial for Japanese-Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II. Snow Country Prison camp in Bismarck is home to United Tribes Technical College.
A West Virginia University study has revealed that Japanese American women who were likely incarcerated in World War II detention camps as children gave birth to less healthy babies decades later, ...