Baseball before internment. In a more just world, the arc of Japanese American baseball would be unfettered by internment. The game was largely introduced to Japan in the late 19 th century by ...

American-born Japanese civilians in Los Angeles left their homes in 1942 for internment. Ten camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arkansas held over 120,000 Japanese Americans ...

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The Injustice of Japanese-American Internment Camps Resonates Strongly to This Day During WWII, 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into camps, a government action that still haunts victims and ...

Show photographs of the Japanese American internment experience. Encourage students to ask questions and discuss the event. Conclude the discussion by telling the students that, after close to fifty ...

Government photographers documented the internment camps, and when their work was exhibited in 1992, a critic was struck by a haunting image. “A World War I veteran, wearing his old uniform, (is ...

In 2004, UCLA launched the nation’s first endowed academic chair focusing on the internment; but most universities that cover the subject do so in broader classes on Asian American studies, U.S ...

The World War II-era Amache internment camp in far southeast Colorado brought despair and desolation for thousands of Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals. But their story is also about a ...

President Biden on Sunday called the use of internment camps for Japanese Americans in the U.S. during World War II “one of the most shameful periods in American history.” “When President ...

Seen here is the Ireichō, a book which lists the names of the more than 125,000 people who were detained in internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II, at the museum in Los ...

Artworks by Japanese-Americans wrongfully imprisoned in World War II internment camps won't be sold to the highest bidder. The move came after protests from descendants of the internees.