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In seeking to deport Venezuelan immigrants, President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act — the same law that was used to ...
Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...
Smithsonian writer Rachel Ng, who reported on the endeavor. A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” ...
Bob Fuchigami, who was imprisoned in the Amache incarceration camp in Colorado during WWII and spent much of his life advocating for Japanese-Americans, has died at the age of 94.
Longstanding community groups continue to hold up Japanese Americans in Altadena and Pasadena. Will their support be enough?
More than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes. Two of the camps were in Arizona and became, for a time, the state’s third and fourth biggest cities: Gila River ...
Fuchigami was just 11 years old when his family was interned at Camp Amache in Granada, Colorado, where more than 7,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II. "We looked like the ...
Art fellows with The AjA Project explore displacement and silencing in their new exhibit on the history of Japanese American ...
Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images While spectators were kept behind fences, Japanese American baseball players were allowed to travel by train and bus to other camps—from Gila ...
This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not ...