After having their lives taken away and being sent to prisons around the country, Japanese Americans used baseball to find hope during World War II.

Japanese internment camps existed because of prejudice, hysteria, and failures in leadership, former World War II detainee Sam Mihara argued at a lecture on Monday. A San Francisco native, Mihara was ...

In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of ...

Roland "Bud" Wolfe's yen to fly hot airplanes for the British against Nazi Germany before the U.S. declared war landed him in an Irish jail - twice - making him the only American held in what was one ...

Bay Area internment survivors speak out on Day of Remembrance This week marks 84 years since more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans—many from the Bay Area—were sent to internment camps during World War ...

Following the Pearl Harbor attack, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in camps. Two of these camps were located on the Gila River and Colorado ...

Chronology of events in Japanese American history: -- The Japanese in America before World War II -- Evacuation -- Life within barbed wire -- The question of loyalty: Japanese Americans in the ...

How can a U.S. president change the country without Congress voting on a new law? This video explains how executive orders ...

The annual pilgrimage, now in its 57th year, brings together different communities to remember the 120,000 Japanese Americans ...

Houghton Library is where Harvard keeps its literary treasures: rare books and manuscripts and correspondence of the great and famous. “New Acquisitions,” a small exhibition devoted to recent ...