Remembering Mitsuye Endo’s sacrifice to end Japanese American incarceration
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...
A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.
If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been forcibly removed from their West Coast homes and held in desolate inland locations under Executive Order 9066 ...
Trump wants to use WWII authority for deportations. Japanese Americans want to stop him
Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.
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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been forcibly removed from their West Coast homes and held in desolate inland locations under Executive Order 9066 ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been forcibly removed from their West Coast homes and held in desolate inland locations under Executive Order 9066 ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune19d
East LA son recalls somber anniversary of family’s post-World War II return
Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, resulting in the mass incarceration ... LA Jiu Jitsu to discuss how that chapter in American history affected him, his father, and their attitude toward ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, chronicler of wartime internment, dies at 90
Her book "Farewell to Manzanar," which was based on her family's experience at the World War II relocation camp, was widely ...
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East LA son recalls somber anniversary of family’s post-World War II return
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that led to the government rounding ... nuns who saved them from being deported. That hazy history grew to sharp focus when the Japanese American National ...
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Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history
Roosevelt authorized the imprisonment of Japanese Americans through Executive Order 9066. Approximately 120,000 ... bigotry that have been part of our history in this country.” ...