Northwest Asian Weekly5d
Annual Day of Remembrance for incarcerated Japanese and Japanese Americans to be held on Feb. 8
The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at ...
Northwest Asian Weekly12d
Congress members introduce legislation to repeal act used against Japanese during WWII
In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.
Hoodline2d
Bellevue Unveils 'Emerging Radiance' Art Installation Honoring Japanese American History
Bellevue introduces "Emerging Radiance," honoring Japanese American farm families affected by WWII incarceration.
Los Angeles Times8d
Japanese Americans returned from prison camps 80 years ago to face one of the country’s ‘greatest swindles’
Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans ... Better safe than sorry, right? And so, by Executive Order 9066, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized their removal and relocation ...
California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...
Remembering Mitsuye Endo’s sacrifice to end Japanese American incarceration
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition of a quiet hero whose name should echo in American history. Endo’s courage ...
The New York Times22d
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which he signed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The order resulted in the military evacuation of Japanese Americans ...