Many of them had been forcibly incarcerated in internment camps during WWII for being perceived as threats to the war effort. WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor A view of ‘Okaeri’ ...

Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, forced Japanese-Americans, regardless of loyalty or citizenship, to leave the West Coast and other areas for designated camps ...

Ford and Frances Kuramoto were both incarcerated at camps during World War II. Their names are among the more than 125,000 displayed in a book at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

An exhibit at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon tells how more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II. The Portland Assembly Center was a temporary ...

A University of Denver team is using drone images to create a 3D reconstruction of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado, joining a growing movement to restore U.S ...

From 1942 to 1945, more than 7,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants were forcibly relocated to Camp Amache. They were part of the 110,000 Japanese Americans ordered to camps in ...

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps in various locations in the western part of ...

More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names of Japanese internment camp survivors during a ceremony at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple on Aug. 15, 2021.

This Jan. 18, 2015, photo shows a sign at the entrance to Camp Amache, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in Granada, Colo.