Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day ...
Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.
Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment ...
examine events and determine the factors which led to Japanese American internment become aware of what took place during the Japanese American internment experience discuss the impact of the ...
Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...
An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...
It survived the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. More than 400 small businesses remain in the district, which is close to Dodger Stadium. A mural of star slugger Shohei ...
The Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande will offer a special presentation Jan. 31 by historian Jim Gregory, ...
To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration ... treatment that had only intensified during the war, to the point of terrorism.
Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...