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The Yoshida family lived along the Pecho Coast a century ago. Now, you can learn their story at an exhibit at the San Luis ...
Although they hadn't committed any crimes, 1,200 Italian men and 1,100 Japanese men spent WWII in cramped, uninsulated ...
Sentence yourself to an hour or so in a onetime internment camp ... violating a curfew imposed on Japanese Americans and sentenced to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp — a long-closed work camp ...
A March lawsuit against the Department of Government Efficiency has Hawaii’s Japanese Americans concerned about future visits ...
Vashon Island Beachcomber relies on subscription revenue to provide local content for our readers. Islanders gathered to ...
The book is called “Ireicho, The Book of Names”. It is a memorial, a tribute to those who were sent to the camps, and a history lesson. It was recently on display at History C ...
After Philip Ashizawa's family survived the internment camps, they returned to San Francisco, and Ashizawa's father took the helm by opening a new Soko Hardware store, which is still in the same ...
Fuchigami was just 11 years old when his family was interned at Camp Amache in Granada, Colorado, where more than 7,000 Japanese-Americans ... included an incorrect location for Mr. Fuchigami's ...
He also explained that he helped turn the location of the Heart Mountain internment camp into a museum and educational facility. People, mostly school kids, come there all year round to learn about ...
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 ...
Little remains of the two Arkansas internment camps that housed Japanese people during World ... for mining claims and later for prime farming locations created racial animosity and prejudice.