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Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII: 2009 Junichi Suzuki Unfinished Business: 1985 Steven Okazaki: The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO
American Pastime is a 2007 fictional film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the internment camps, where baseball was one of the major ...
Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit primarily made up of "Nisei" Japanese Americans, which for its size and length of service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
An estimated 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II, of which 20,000 joined the Army. Approximately 800 were killed in action. The 100th Battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history . [ 2 ]
The film dramatizes the real-life story of the 442nd, which was composed of Nisei (second-generation Americans born of Japanese parents) soldiers. [ 3 ] Fighting in the European theater during World War II , this unit became the most heavily decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the United States military , as well ...
These are just two of almost 20 works by Japanese American artists incarcerated in the United States during World War II displayed in Tokyo earlier this month. As well as shining a rare light on ...
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park.
Roughly 18,000 of these Nisei — or second-generation Japanese Americans — soldiers formed the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would become the most decorated military unit for its size and ...