The American government relocated Japanese families to internment camps ... s grandfather became severely emaciated before passing away in the camp under inadequate medical care. “It was a horrible ...

The Yoshida family lived along the Pecho Coast a century ago. Now, you can learn their story at an exhibit at the San Luis ...

After World War II, during which their family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Utah ... armed guards, some Japanese Americans died because of inadequate medical care, and some were ...

Jean Mishima was 6 years old when Japanese Americans across the United States were forced into internment camps, following the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor. She shares her story and what she hopes the ...

Two months after the attack, a presidential executive order resulted in the unjust internment of Japanese ... care of them. Holly Creek residents Carol Furuta, Ruth Kawamura, and Jane Mayeda (Judith J ...

Walking through the streets of San Jose's Japantown, people held tea lights to bring light to a time when 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to live in internment camps. Those in attendance ...

and were relocated to internment camps that lacked substantial medical care, privacy, and adequate housing and food across the country. Japanese Americans were subjected to these inhumane ...

There was no bitterness in Helen Tsuchiya's voice when she spoke of having spent more than three years as a teenager in a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II.

In 1942, Sam Mihara, a U.S.-born citizen, was just 9 years old when he and his family were forced to move from their home in San Francisco to a remote Japanese-American internment camp in Wyoming.

Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...