Learn about Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II. Explore how the government justified this practice against...
BringingWe Hereby Refuseand the story of camp resistance to theplenary panelmoderated by Shirley Ann Higuchi (Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration)and also featuring Eric Muller (Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s W...
ww2dbaseThough not officially known as so, the relocation program would later come to be known as the "Japanese-American Internment". Three separate government entities housed persons of Japanese ancestry in the United States. The Department of Justice operated 27 Interment Camps which housed over 1...
Discrimination Against Japanese During WW2 Research Report Asians in North America are discriminated for any reason people can find. From there colour to the way they speak. Japanese and Chinese began immigrating to North America during the mid- 1800's and were a great target of cheap labour....
My dad served in the South Pacific during WW2, stationed in New Guinea with the 15th Weather Squadron. Going through a trunk today I found what appeared to be a Japanese bill of some kind. I thought it might be some sort of a facsimile used as a souvenir. On your site I didn’t se...
Guest speaker Sam Mihara was imprisoned in the Heart Mountain Wyoming Japanese American internment camps during WW2. His educational presentation gives a historical perspective to immigration and imprisonment.
ww2dbaseFor the rest of the war, parts and pieces of these balloons, and sometimes whole balloons, were found spread all over western North America. There were 169 such reports from United States, with the farthest inland being just west of Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-four were found in Alaska...
Did America win the attack on Pearl Harbor? What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf? What event began the U.S. War on Terror? During what war was the atomic bomb dropped? Did Isoroku Yamamoto command the attack on Pearl Harbor? Who was Japan allied with during WW2?
The Japanese came to America during the 1880s. In March, 1854 the Japanese’s signed a treaty to open trade with other countries. This concluded to Japans economy to become very wealthy. Now that the Japanese had ties to America and other countries, they had many new opportunities. ...
Ross Ishikawais a cartoonist and animator living in Seattle. He is working on a graphic novel about his parents and their coming of age during World War II. His work is online atrossishikawa.com. Matt Sasakiis the artist on the previous volume in this series,Fighting for America: Nisei So...