Every year on the last Saturday of April, Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated congregate with family and other supporters at Manzanar National Historic Site for a day of remembrance, but as the ...
"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...
Giichi Matsumura and his family were detained in Manzanar internment camp during World War Two A skeleton found in California last October has been identified as a Japanese-American artist who was ...
The acclaimed author shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 ...
Her book "Farewell to Manzanar," which was based on her family's experience at the World War II relocation camp, was widely ...
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita ...
During World War II, Japanese Americans held at Manzanar found joy and normalcy in baseball. More than 80 years later, their field is back. Sometimes history needs to be unearthed, and other times it ...
At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” ...
Nearly eight decades after World War II, the Japanese American community celebrated a triumphant return of baseball to the Manzanar incarceration camp. Over the weekend, the Japanese American ...