On Tuesday, a group of legislators visited Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, which exists to remember anti-Asian ...

Japan announces new policy barring entry to foreigners with outstanding medical bills and requiring visitors staying over ...

Wander around downtown Portland now, and it's hard to see how this stretch of blocks just west of the Willamette River was once a thriving Japantown. A few hints remain-a collection of riverfront ...

A poignant historical episode highlighting these themes is the internment ... to isolated camps primarily located in western states such as California, Arizona, and Wyoming. Japanese Americans ...

More than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry ... Health care was scarce. “Imagine a state in which two of the four largest cities are concentration camps,” the poet Brandon Shimoda ...

More than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry ... Health care was scarce. “Imagine a state in which two of the four largest cities are concentration camps,” the poet Brandon Shimoda ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosalie Santine Gould was away at college and blissfully unaware that an area near her hometown was being used to house a Japanese internment camp during ... So I had to quit medical school ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...