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Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during ...
This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were ordered into internment camps during World War II, and the emotions have reverberated ...
Most of the prisoners were extricated, but Konishi escaped. He returned a few days later with a force of men, but by then the camp was empty. The Japanese massacred some 1,500 men, women, and children in adjacent towns which they suspected of collaborating with the liberators. Konishi later admitted that he'd helped plan this massacre.
The Day of Remembrance (DOR, Japanese: 追憶の日, [1] Tsuioku no Hi) is a day of commemoration for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. [2] It is a day for people of Japanese descent in the U.S. to reflect upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066. [3]
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.
A view of the memorial from the south, showing the harbor in the background. The Seattle–Bainbridge Ferry terminal is on the other side of the harbor.. Japanese immigrants first came to Bainbridge Island in the 1880s, working in sawmills and strawberry harvesting, and by the 1940s had become an integral part of the island's community.
In her film, Tajiri recalls her family's experience of the American internment of the Japanese during World War II. [2] [3] [4] History and Memory explores the story beyond the recorded history of the internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans. [5] The film premiered at the 1991 Whitney Biennial exhibition, and has since been screened ...
At 99, amid commemorations of Wednesday's 75th anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender ceremony that ended World War II, Tamura has vivid memories of his time locked up with thousands ...