Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It ...
If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.
remember that Executive Order 9066 by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted American citizens of Japanese ancestry and sent them to massive internment camps. Imagine what an angry ...
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been forcibly removed from their West Coast homes and held in desolate inland locations under Executive Order 9066 ...
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.
In addition to issuing Executive Order 9066 to incarcerate 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry — most of whom were American citizens — President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies ...
Trump picked Leah B. Foley, a longtime federal prosecutor who has investigated money laundering and drug trafficking, to lead ...