Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

But some people who understood what they had gone through, treated them with kindness and sympathy. Show photographs of the Japanese American internment experience. Encourage students to ask questions ...

Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...

33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. Armed ... "My priority was to try to show the American people that we are just as loyal as anybody else. We need to prove our loyalty because the ...

and the army was empowered to force all West Coast Americans from their homes. All across the West, relocation notices were posted on April 30, 1942. All people of Japanese ancestry – including ...

An American professor and a Japanese author, speaking to reporters Friday in Tokyo, said their nations should take a less ...

“Japanese Americans’ whole families were incarcerated without any sort of trial — their only crime was they were of Japanese ...

Buster Kozo Ichikawa, 98, a second-generation Japanese-American, was relocated along ... D.C. Ichikawa still remembers the large number of people along the street who celebrated their return ...

Adding to the display, the Japanese American Museum of Oregon has included Makita’s story, artifacts made by people held at different Department of Justice sites and an interactive activity ...