Japanese Americans

Shibutani, Haruo Najima, and Tomika Shibutani reported that the vaccination lines stretched as long as 200 yards. “The conditions were atrocious.”

When Executive Order 9066 forcibly removed my family from their community 80 years ago, we lost more than I realized.

In 1943, Ansel Adams traveled to photograph Manzanar—one of the ten internment camps that together detained 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

The United States confined 2,200 Latin Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. They’re still pushing for redress.

In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.

Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.

Remembering Asian-American activists Corky Lee and Yuri Kochiyama.

On the 100th anniversary of Yuri Kochiyama’s birth and the passage of the Emergency Quota Act, Railton explores inclusion and exclusion in US history.

After a recent surge in anti-Asian attacks, the narrative quickly turned to hostilities between Black and Asian American communities.

Reckoning with the legacy of Japanese internment in the South.

The families arrived from Japan with fanfare, most disappeared without a trace.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

A history of Japanese Internment in America through the art produced from it.

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.

Ed Ayers visits Manzanar, the largest of the WWII-era internment camps for Japanese Americans, and speaks to those keeping the memories of detainees alive.

Searching for the roots of an American classic.

I was sent to a camp at just 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.

A debate over a planned fence around the site where people of Japanese ancestry, mostly American citizens, were forcibly interned.

The abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.