The Japanese American internment camps that existed in Arkansas during World War II represent two of 10 such facilities ...

Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo is ...

Ford Kuramoto was only 3 years old when his family had to leave their Los Angeles home to be taken to the Manzanar internment camp in the California desert. Frances Kuramoto, Ford's wife, was born in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A special event was held at San Jose State Wednesday in remembrance of a dark moment in U.S. history. The event was held ahead of the anniversary that marks 81 years since ...

Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. "Our family suffered a lot," ...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Thursday the establishment of a new national site in Colorado, preserving a reminder of one of America's most infamous World War II home-front injustices. The ...

McGEHEE -- Hachi Yasamura's shirt is simple, concise and loaded with history. Against a distorted background of red numbers and letters that resemble computer code, white lettering reads: "Executive ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — One hour after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Harry Taiju Hayashi in February 1942, he was on a train to Fort Lincoln, an internment camp nicknamed “Snow ...

Painted on the back sides of two taped-together evacuation notices sent from the Western Defense Command to Japanese Americans at their homes. Credit: images Courtesy of Delphine Hirasuna Under ...

Lillian Michiko Blakey, “Reiko, Alberta 1945” (2009), acrylic on canvas (courtesy Nikkei National Museum, 2013.57.1.6) TORONTO — In a gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum hangs a series of portraits ...