It is a reminder of what can happen when fear, prejudice and government power collide and why the echoes of that history still matter today. On Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost nine decades ago, a group of Americans faced a jarring hardship, particularly in California. Now, some filmmakers are ...

SAN FRANCISCO — After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in ...

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 ...

The Day of Remembrance, Feb. 19, should focus our attention on how a constitutional republic can shun its first principles Today is the Day of Remembrance, marking the date that the United States ...

It was an October afternoon in Japan when Julian Prince Dash knew where he wanted to die. He was eating lunch in the Kojima district of Okayama Prefecture, the birthplace of Japanese denim, where ...

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the ...

Based on a Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibition, Righting a Wrong traces the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the people who survived it. Still ...

Born the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Toshiko “Tonko” Doi of Chicago was just a baby when she and her family were forced into Japanese incarceration camps by the United States government, ...

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 ...

Masaru Nakawatase was born into a world surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. His mother gave birth to him in 1943 at a concentration camp in Arizona, and Nakawatase grew up in New Jersey with ...