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In 1942, Sam Mihara, a U.S.-born citizen, was just 9 years old when he and his family were forced to move from their home in San Francisco to a remote Japanese-American internment camp in Wyoming ...
On a warm spring day in 1942, Margaret Ridgway believed she heard God telling her to leave her home in Vancouver, Canada, and move to a Japanese internment camp. Ridgway was on her knees in the ...
The last surviving member of a storied Japanese Canadian baseball team has died at the age of 102 in Kamloops, B.C. Kaye Kaminishi was a part of the legendary Vancouver Asahi team that played in ...
PETRA FACHINGER, Repositioning the Narrative of the Japanese Canadian Internment through Multidirectional Memory, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3 (September 2019), pp.
World War Two Japanese American WWII internment camp detainees memorialized with new monument The three-part monument lists 125,284 verified names of Japanese American detainees ...
Japanese Americans at the Gila River Relocation Center in Pinal County, Ariz. greet First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Dillon S Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, during their tour of ...
120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into camps by the U.S. government during World War II. Seattle's May Namba became part of a movement to help those interned regain what they'd lost.
Topaz. Heart Mountain. Gila River. Poston. Amache. Jerome. Tule Lake. Rohwer. Minidoka. Manzanar. Many of the Japanese American internment camps have been forgotten, neglected like dusty tomes on the ...