Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during ...

The internment of Japanese Americans on US soil during the Second World War is regarded as one of the most despicable violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.

During the harvest we [were] able to ... The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II, Adams’ photographs ended up reinforcing the government’s portrayal of the ...

Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...

bringing renewed attention to the trauma she and thousands of other imprisoned Japanese Americans experienced during World War II, died Dec. 21 at her home in Santa Cruz, California. She was 90.

It was a strategy similar to those used later on Peleliu, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In contrast to those successors, ...

To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched ...

Third-generation Japanese American artists process the impact of incarceration on their parents' generation and their lives afterward in “Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy" at the Illinois ...

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, born to Japanese immigrant parents in 1920, was only 22 when she challenged the incarceration of ...

But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without ...

Estelle Ishigo, an artist who was part of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, wrote and sketched about her experiences in the Pomona Assembly Center, above, and in the ...