New surveillance footage shows vandal defacing historic Japanese American art in Seattle's CID
Surveillance video from Jan. 18, around 11:30 p.m. shows a person, with what appears to be makeup or paint around their eyes, ...
Japanese Americans returned from prison camps 80 years ago to face one of the country’s ‘greatest swindles’
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to honor rights activist held in Utah internment camp during WWII
A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in ...
California Sets Aside Jan. 30 to Honor Man Who Defied Japanese Internment
Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...
Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants
The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.
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Actor George Takei recounts internment camps during WWII in talk at Bucknell University
George Takei recalls being wrongfully imprisoned as a child in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II and ...
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JACL celebrates introduction of two bills meant to honor Japanese civil rights advocate
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) has joined 77 other organizations to honor community advocate Fred T. Korematsu ...
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Mural depicting Seattle's Japanese-American history cleaned up after being vandalized
The mural depicts the history of Japanese-Americans in Seattle who were sent to internment camps during World War II. RELATED: Seattle's Wing Luke Museum receives $100K from city, state for ...
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Defacement of Japanese American mural a “gutpunch”
In the wee hours, sometime between Sunday, Jan. 19 and Monday, Jan. 20, vandals destroyed a historic Wing Luke Museum mural ...