Every year on the last Saturday of April, Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated congregate with family and other supporters at Manzanar National Historic Site for a day of remembrance, but as the ...

Caitlin Oiye Coon, archives director at nonprofit Densho, shares her family’s history during the incarceration of Japanese ...

The West Coast National Parks cover six states including California, Hawaii (Including the Pacific Islands) Idaho, Nevad ...

"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...

The Irei monument project is the first time a list accurately and comprehensively names the more than 125,000 Japanese ...

Relative valuations of races and countries are suggested in Renée Green’s Color 1, with paint chips bearing labels that can ...

LOS ANGELES - The Manzanar National Historic Site will come alive this fall, with cheering crowds and the crack of a bat. In 1942, the U.S. government forced 120,000 people of Japanese descent out ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” ...

The author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston later recalled that her popular memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar” (1973), which she ...

From fashion to war to medicine, the students chose their topics, created a thesis and decided what medium to use to present.

Fumi grew up in Los Angeles, CA and was interned at Manzanar during WWII where she met her husband and moved to Chicago. At the request of the family, private services were held in Chicago.

her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California. Advertisement ...