Obata, detained in a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent, urged turning to "Great Nature" to ...

Two of the nation's internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II were in Arizona. For a time they became the state’s third and fourth biggest cities.

During World War II, a 1798 law was used to justify internment camps for Japanese Americans, including two that were located in Arizona. ... Health care was scarce.

This left a detrimental effect on Mihara’s family. Mihara’s father lost his eyesight in the internment camp due to untreated glaucoma, as there were no specialists available and the government refused ...

Imprisoned at 9 in Japanese internment camp, Sam Mihara to deliver 2024 Jefferson Lecture The rocket scientist-turned-historian will deliver the lecture on Jan. 15, 2025, in Little Tokyo — and ...

Several hundred men from the camp were sent to the 442nd Regional Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit made up of about 18,000 men who received, in total, 4,000 Purple Hearts, 4,000 ...

The camp area consisted of 29 blocks of barracks, with each block having 12 Army-style barracks. Each building was divided into six apartments. At Holly Creek retirement community in Centennial, three ...

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 ...

In the camps, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, some Japanese Americans died because of inadequate medical care, and some were killed by military guards for allegedly resisting orders. Image ...

Six other internment camps are already national parks—and now, Amache is officially joining them. In March 2022, President Joe Biden signed a law that made the site part of the National Park System.

John Sasaki, who owned Lake View East dry cleaners, survived WWII Japanese internment camps, dead at 87 Born in Los Angeles, he was 6 when his family was forcibly detained in 1942.