Reflecting on the interment of Japanese Americans and what is happening today challenges us to see how fragile our civil liberties are.

He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and his family were rounded up and sent on buses to prison camps in the West ...

I think our country is strong enough to understand the history of our nation in its totality, and I think that anything less ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Los Angeles, 1937 : from cantaloupe sunrises to the cantaloupe farms -- The significance of silence -- As a child, I did not know I was Japanese' as an adult, ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – It was just a three-minute scrimmage, but when 9-year-old Quentin Sykes sank a buzzer beater to seal his team's 4-0 win, the entire Youth Center here erupted like he’d just clenched ...

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Executive Order 9066 was issued — the culmination of fomenting anti-Asian sentiment — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of ...