On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl ...

Columnist Gail Symons writes, "Heart Mountain was one of ten incarceration camps where more than 14,000 Japanese Americans were held during World War ...

The basic facts of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld President Franklin Roosevelt's wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, are well-known but still ...

As the number of surviving Japanese American World War II internees declines, oral historian Diana Tsuchida is intensifying her efforts to record the final first-hand accounts from families connected ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll posthumously promoted seven second-generation Japanese American soldiers, known as Nisei, to the rank of second lieutenant.

A “protection force” was authorized by Congress in July to guard Mare Island and other Navy shore establishments. That ...

From the Trail of Tears to Watergate to the Iraq War, here are 20 of the worst presidential mistakes in US history — and what ...

Logging, agriculture dominated local economy, as loggers harvested trees and orchardists employed Japanese immigrants ...

Oliver Wang, a sociology professor and author at Cal State Long Beach, spent years griping to his friends about the lack of ...