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.
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 ...
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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Day 1 signings don’t make us better, let alone great
Presidential signings once meant something. Not all of them, of course; some were as thin and inert as the paper upon which ...
Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders. What’s next?
Trump picked Leah B. Foley, a longtime federal prosecutor who has investigated money laundering and drug trafficking, to lead ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the ... inland locations under Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942.
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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, issued ...
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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East LA son recalls somber anniversary of family’s post-World War II return
Within two months, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, resulting in the mass incarceration of about 122,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent. Nearly 70,000 ...
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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
On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the ... inland locations under Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942.