List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War IIRaid at Cabanatuan
Godzilla is never directly named, but it is implied that he battled the Nautilus on the Japanese coast in the 1950s. Janni Nemo claims that there are burns on her arm as the result of the monster's atomic breath; the beast was presumably killed by Hugo Coghlan.Auric...
Obasanby Joy Kogawa. A story of internment of Japanese-Canadians in British Columbia during World War II. The Stone Angelby Margaret Laurence. A life story set in the Prairies. Two Solitudesby Hugh McLennan. The Canadian classic set in Catholic Quebec and Protestant Ontario. Promises to Keepby...
Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Consul-General in Kaunas, Lithuania, issued thousands of visas to Jews fleeing Nazi occupied Poland in accordance with Japanese policy.[1] The last diplomat to leave Kaunas, Sugihara continued stamping visas from the open window of his departing train. Swedish diplomat...
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (January 30, 1919 – March 30, 2005) was an American civil rights activist who objected to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Execu...
The Japanese-Americans Relocation record set documents from 1942-1946 where entire families were forced to abandon businesses and homes to remote internment camps called "relocation centers" on the West Coast. A clear violation of civil rights and due process, the rec...
declared a winner of the Space Race. Witness the dawn of modern America as it unfolded, through famous, and infamous, images and footage, shown in full color. From the drama of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the music of the Beatles, and from the March on Washington to the walk on the ...
Coming to power after the end of Japanese rule in 1945, he authorized the invasion of South Korea in 1950, triggering an intervention in defense of South Korea by the United Nations led by the United States. Following the military stalemate in the Korean War, a ceasefire was signed on 27 ...
Coinciding with the internment of around 120,000 people of Japanese descent is Kazuko’s unfolding sense of self. “I felt nothing unusual stirring inside me,” she writes when her mother explains Kazuko’s Japanese lineage. –SL Swimming to Freedom: My Escape from China and the Cultural...
Known for:Portrait of Depression-era people, includingMigrant Mother Lange documented Japanese Americans being forced into internment camps during WW II. She was also the first woman to receive the Geggenheim fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards in the industry, for her photography.Alfred...