Caitlin Oiye Coon works to save her own and thousands of families' stories. As a teenager, Caitlin Oiye Coon would hear stories from her grandmother Shizuko Kikuchi Oiye about what life was like for ...

When Ameya Desai won the fourth grade prize of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge last year, something surprising happened: A neighbor reached out asking if the 11-year-old journalist would interview his ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

On March 29, 1942, Elaine Buchman Yoneda faced an excruciatingly fateful decision: She had received an order to bring her three-year-old son Tommy the following day to an assembly point in Los Angeles ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A resounding, resilient beat fills the room at the Washington History Museum in Tacoma on Thursday evening for the eighth-annual South Sound Day of Remembrance Walk. Tacoma Fuji Taiko ...

Mary Kamidoi and Shinji Takahashi talk about the Japanese incarceration camps during World War II. Mary Kamidoi and Shinji Takahashi are both second-generation Japanese Americans but with vastly ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — American and Japanese middle-schoolers overcame language barriers at this key air base over the weekend as they brainstormed ideas to bring their communities together.

Japanese American groups criticized the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent. The ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...

Japanese from Latin America were rounded up and traded to Japan for U.S. POWs. Isamu "Art" Shibayama enjoyed an idyllic childhood in Peru -- fishing on Sundays with his father and going to baseballs ...

OPINION: It wasn't until middle school that I learned my grandparents both had spent more than three years behind barbed wire ...