During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated all West Coast Japanese Americans in internment camps. We ask how this forced displacement affected Japanese American enclaves. Using the recently ...

The Trump administration said it is deporting immigrants because they pose a threat to national security. That's the same reason given for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Now ...

FORT BLISS, TX – Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site. Homeland Security officials say ...

THAT HISTORY IS STILL IMPORTANT TODAY. ERIKO. IT MEANS A RECORD OF NAMES IN JAPANESE. IT’S BEING RECOGNIZED AS A LESSONS LEARNED IN OUR HISTORY. JEFF KAWAGUCHI’S PARENTS ARE TWO OF THE NAMES IN A SEA ...

For my next-to-last column of 2024, let me tie up a few loose ends. I wrote here Oct. 25 about visiting the Japanese American National Museum in L.A.’s Little Tokyo and admiring its exhibit of art ...

Nakamura, whom Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn called “a one-of-a-kind American hero,” died on Saturday, Nov. 22.