Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in wartime incarceration camps like Manzanar — were allowed ...

After being labeled an “enemy alien” during World War II, Hiroshi Miyamura later served his country with distinction — ...

The detention of Japanese Americans, Emanuel said, was a “shameful” chapter in American history. “But the American story is owning that shame, being accountable for it.

When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.

Star Trek” actor and activist George Takei tells CNN’s Audie Cornish about his family’s experience in a 1940’s ...

February 19 is a solemn day of reflection for the Japanese American community. Exactly 83 years ago, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that forced the removal and imprisonment of ...

Obon is a joyous Japanese American summer holiday dedicated to remembering and honoring ancestors. Support for LAist comes from. ... For the kids: Games, activities, and tradition.

I'm a Black American and my wife is Japanese - raising our kids in Japan is far better than the US. Darryl Wharton-Rigby lives in the Saitama suburbs with his wife and three kids ...

Yamashiro is a sophomore at Scripps Ranch High School and is president of the Asian American Pacific Islander club and the public affairs officer of the Japanese National Honor Society. She lives i… ...

The South Bay’s Sansei Baseball league is a Japanese American tradition that’s been around since Gardena was filled with strawberry fields, and Torrance was known for flower farms. Established in 1960 ...

The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime building bridges between the two cultures he called his own.

The Kiyokawas have worked as orchardists in Oregon’s Hood River Valley since 1911 — one of the few Japanese American families returning to work the land after their forced relocation and ...