While Okuda, among many other Nisei, complied with the evacuation orders, one of his peers, Gordon Hirabayashi, famously ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of KQED’s Youth Takeover. Throughout the month, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. Ted Iijima presented me with two of 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 ...