On December 7, 1941, 16 year-old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Unbeknownst to her, this shared experience would soon leave her family and over 120,000 Japanese...

Here's the story of the Japanese American concentration camps that were established throughout the United States during World War II.

MOT 1942: DESERTED JAPANESE STORES: VS Storefronts of various Japanese businesses & stores closed, deserted (due to Japanese American Internment), including 'Southern Coast Herald, & Yamato Garage.' WWII, World War II, West Coast,...

MOT 1942: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT: VS Relocation centers under construction. VS Completed relocation centers, Japanese Americans in line entering center, camp. INT WS Japanese people dining in mess hall, dining hall. WWII, World...

MOT 1942: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT: WS Japanese people carrying luggage lining up on street to board Greyhound bus. WS Japanese people waving goodbye to bus leaving. WWII, World War II, Pearl Harbor aftermath, War Relocation Camp,...

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Greg Robinson, a professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal, discusses his book "By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans." Robinson's interest in the topic began while researching at the...

John Schmitz, a history professor at Northern Virginia Community College, discusses his book Enemies Among Us, which explores the relocation, internment, and repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II....

In 1942, at the height of the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorised the incarceration of approximately 110,000 Japanese-Americans in the American West. But was Executive Order 9066 a step too far?

In 1942, shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered the relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention centers. The order grew out of fear that they could become spies. Around 117,000 citizens...

Floyd Cheung, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and a professor of English and American Studies at Smith College, has edited several volumes highlighting forgotten and lesser-known Asian American writers, focusing on...

During World War II, the internment camps became involuntary homes for thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. It couldn't have been easy, but incarcerees still found way to find some measure of happiness in their...

After the United States government forces Japanese American citizens into relocation centers during World War II, one man refuses and gets himself into some big trouble.

In episode 36 of Supreme Court Briefs, after the United States government forces Japanese American citizens into relocation centers during World War II, one man refuses and gets himself into some big trouble.

Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese Americans during WWII as a result of Executive...

When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a "security" measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal...

After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, many Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps. Betty Taira was only eight when her family was sent to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming. From: SERIOUSLY AMAZING OBJECTS: Melting...

Life for the 110,000 Japanese-Americans living in internment camps was oddly surreal: they could work, study, pray, even join the military. The one thing they couldn't do was leave. From the Series: The Pacific War in Color: