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Twin Falls Times-News
October 22, 2017
The free symposium will examine historic and contemporary civil liberties issues related to the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans at ...
iFIBER One News
October 21, 2017
In response to the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans to be incarcerated in camps mainly around the western ...
PRI
October 19, 2017
Usually, when we talk about Japanese prison camps during World War II, the story centers around Japanese Americans. But there was actually ...
Pamplin Media Group
October 12, 2017
COURTESY PHOTO - The 'Architecture of Internment: The Buildup to Wartime Incarceration' will be on display for one night only at the Walters ...
NBCNews.com
October 5, 2017
Kashiwagi said that many of the seniors were nisei — second-generation Japanese Americans born in the U.S. — who had spent their youth ...
Benitolink: San Benito County News
October 3, 2017
In May 1942, photographer Russell Lee visited San Benito County, photographing the local, Japanese-American community preparing for ...
Nichi Bei Weekly
December 31, 1999
(It) was the birthplace of the first Japanese Americans. It was the only colony outside of Japan that was started by samurai. And, lastly, it was the ...
Democracy Now!
September 23, 2017
In Washington, D.C., three children of Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rejectÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 22, 2017
“In 1943 and 1944, the high court failed to closely scrutinize the government's case that the treatment of Japanese-Americans was based onÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
September 20, 2017
The Supreme Court should take heed of its failure to stop the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II andÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 20, 2017
Just two examples are the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. We felt compelled to stand upÃÂ ...
Twin Falls Times-News
September 17, 2017
She noted the irony of this unit liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp, when “Japanese Americans from the U.S. west coast were detainedÃÂ ...
Priest River Times
September 17, 2017
The 75th anniversary this year of the opening of the historic Minidoka War Relocation Center is not only a reminder of the injustices that canÃÂ ...
East Bay Times
September 13, 2017
She calls the parallels to what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, their upheaval and forced entry into camps secured byÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 10, 2017
A state senator braved political backlash to defend Japanese Americans. Farmers took care of their incarcerated neighbors' crops. Five whiteÃÂ ...
Quartz
September 5, 2017
The location of internment camps had profound, long-lasting effects on Japanese-Americans assigned to themÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
September 4, 2017
Organizers say panelists will reflect on the 75th anniversary of the order affecting Japanese Americans and the travel ban, which was legallyÃÂ ...
SFGate
September 3, 2017
Organizers say panelists will reflect on the 75th anniversary of the order affecting Japanese Americans and the travel ban, which was legallyÃÂ ...
The Rafu Shimpo
August 18, 2017
Amy Sueyoshi (atop the car, left) and Tina Takemoto in the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 26. (Photo by Rita Takahashi).
Los Angeles Business Journal
August 17, 2017
For older Japanese-Americans who struggle with severe illness, getting to the doctor while overcoming language and cultural barriers can beÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 16, 2017
White supremacy also paved the way for the U.S. government to violate due process and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans, many U.S.ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
August 15, 2017
On a muggy Thursday morning of August 3rd, Little Tokyo Service Center broke ground for Budokan, its project to provide a recreational,ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
August 10, 2017
Why: On this barren, windblown patch of the Owens Valley, more than 10,000 Japanese Americans endured a painful home-front chapter ofÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 7, 2017
The World War II internment of Japanese-Americans in desolate prison camps across the United States has had sweeping effects on theÃÂ ...
Pensacola News Journal
December 31, 1999
A series of Pensacola events will pay tribute to the contributions of Japanese-Americans during World War II. "Memories & Heroics:ÃÂ ...
Sojourners
December 31, 1999
Alphawood Gallery used to be a bank. For its latest exhibition, focusing on Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. camps during World War IIÃÂ ...
Rexburg Standard Journal
December 31, 1999
She noted the irony of this unit liberating the Dachau Concentration Camp, when “Japanese Americans from the U.S. west coast were detainedÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
(“When California rounded up Japanese Americans for internment camps, Monterey emerged as the center of the resistance,” Sept. 10).
WBEZ
December 31, 1999
Japanese-Americans didn't end up in Chicago of their own accord: The ... efforts have had a lingering effect on Japanese-Americans, though.
Dateline Dominguez
March 29, 2017
California State University, Dominguez Hill's (CSUDH) Library Archives and Special Collections has received a $39,200 archival grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to continue preserving the history of Japanese Americans inÃÂ ...
CSUN Today
March 29, 2017
The order resulted in the forced internment of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast, many of whom were U.S. citizens.
The Stony Brook Press
March 27, 2017
Just days after the attack, the FBI and other government agencies grouped together thousands of Japanese-Americans that they identified as "enemy aliens.
The International Examiner
March 27, 2017
Hosted by Lori Matsukawa, anchor for KING5 TV, the event commemorates the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. The annual banquet, which serves as the one majorÃÂ ...
Portland Tribune
March 27, 2017
Min Yasui's fateful 1942 walk, Senate resolution echo in tense political climate, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.
Redmond Reporter
March 27, 2017
The discussion event is titled "Vigilance Against Injustice" and aims to uncover lessons from the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the Holocaust in Europe, "and the parallels that we can draw from those events to the bigotry ...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 27, 2017
I am Jo Ann Ota Fujioka, a survivor of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in prison camps. I was a toddler in 1942 when Executive Order 9066, the policy that authorized authorities in the United States of America to remove Japanese-AmericansÃÂ ...
New America Media
March 27, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif. - "A monetary sum and words alone cannot restore lost years or erase painful memories. Neither can they fully convey our nation's resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights of individuals.
St. Paul Asian American Press
March 26, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 23, 2017) - Colorado State Rep. Phil Covarrubias (R-56) on March 22 defended the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II while debating a Colorado state bill that would protect state residents from PresidentÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
March 24, 2017
One of ten internment camps for Japanese-Americans in the U.S. was in southeastern Colorado, and the state's governor at the time, Ralph Carr, was a singular figure at the time in both accepting the prisoners and speaking out on their behalf.
Brattleboro Reformer
March 23, 2017
Most American's acknowledge that our internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was a shameful act for which we are not proud.
New York Business Journal
March 23, 2017
Lori Zarahn, its English language book buyer, pointed out that it's now appealing to second-, third- and fourth-generation Japanese Americans who reside in several New Jersey communities such as Edgewater, Fort Lee and Englewood Cliffs and Queens.
Hood River News
March 22, 2017
Her family dedicated a plaque at the Mt. Hood Railroad Depot in 2012 to memorialize the forced removal of local Japanese Americans. Gorham Blaine, Sydney Babson's great-grandson, owns McIsaac's Store in Parkdale, which in the early 1940s was one ofÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
March 22, 2017
One Republican lawmaker in Colorado appeared to twice defend the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II while debating a bill thatÃÂ ...
Hawaii News Now
March 21, 2017
At the height of World War II, Shigeo Muroda was apprehended from the Waianae plantation he worked on and sent to a detention camp on Sand Island.
Crosscut
March 21, 2017
Many disillusioned Japanese Americans began to protest and challenge their incarceration. The Moriguchis and their close friends tried their best to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
Bellevue Reporter
March 21, 2017
"And my family was affected by Executive Order 9066 where Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps." He said the parallels bothered him, but that Muslim-Americans, Indo-Americans, Latin Americans and other groups feeling unease have moreÃÂ ...
The Rafu Shimpo
March 21, 2017
The Shibayama family of Lima, Peru lost everything and was forcibly removed from the country during World War II. By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor.
Real Change News
March 21, 2017
The friendship between Lawrence Matsuda and Roger Shimomura began with an art sale. Both are Japanese-American, and Matsuda was among the first Japanese-Americans to purchase a piece of Shimomura's art. Shimomura invited Matsuda to lunch,ÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 21, 2017
They built it, and people came. So many people came to last year's Kizuna Japanese Spring Festival that it has moved to the larger Sammy Davis Festival PlazaÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 21, 2017
To the editor: The year Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II, a young friend of mine was hired to manage a strawberry farm in Lompoc owned by an internee.
