Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day ...

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...

Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the ...

examine events and determine the factors which led to Japanese American internment become aware of what took place during the Japanese American internment experience discuss the impact of the ...

When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations ...

“Keep Germans down, Americans in, and Russians out” was their German policy, and “Keep Japanese down, Americans in, and Russians (or Chinese) out” was their Japan policy. The U.S. wanted ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Forty years after World War II, the U.S. government commissioned a study to examine the impact of the internment of Japanese Americans. Public hearings included ...

The newly created Army agency, the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), first handled the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Afterwards, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) was the ...

Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...

Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma. At that point, 75,000 Soldiers became prisoners of war: about 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos. What followed was one of the worst ...

To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project was originally incubated at ...

The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, ...