Jim Tanimoto remembers a lot from his 102 years of life, but not who took the photograph blown up on his office wall. The black-and-white picture shows 28 men of Japanese descent, American citizens, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tule Lake Segregation Center in Modoc County was named one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National ...

In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ensure "good behavior" on the part of Japan.

It was a time of war when the country was shaken by the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. Detaining the Japanese-American population was deemed to be the correct step in protecting the country, and 10 ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forcible relocation of more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent — at least 70,000 of whom were American citizens ...

Western theater at the Japanese internment camps of World War II shows that the camps were far from German concentration camps. Yet this, in fact, is often called the “real” perspective by internment ...

Jim Tanimoto remembers a lot from his 102 years of life, but not who took the photograph blown up on his office wall. The black-and-white picture shows 28 men of Japanese descent, American citizens, ...

September 13, 1943 The realignment of Tule Lake as a camp for "dissenters" begins. After the loyalty questionnaire episode, "loyal" internees begin to depart to other camps. Five days later, "disloyal ...