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San Diego officially apologizes for supporting Japanese American incarceration during WWII
- The San Diego City Council officially apologized to the Japanese American community and passed a resolution that rescinded Resolution 76068 on Tuesday.
- “The Council of the City of San Diego apologizes to all people of Japanese ancestry for its past actions in support of the unjust exclusion, removal, and incarceration of Japanese Americas [sic] and residents of Japanese ancestry during World War II, and for its failure to support and defend the civil rights and civil liberties of these individuals during this period,” the apology read.
- Resolution 76068, which ordered the FBI to forcibly remove residents of Japanese descent from the county and transfer them to the 10 concentration camps in the western part of the U.S., came into effect after then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066 (E.O. 9066) on Feb. 19, 1942.
- More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and transferred to the concentration camps in the western U.S. and Arkansas weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Among those were 1,900 San Diego residents of Japanese descent.
- “It is incredibly important that we identify the racist acts of the past and injustices of the past and address them head-on,” Council President Sean Elo-Rivera said. “We can acknowledge the wrong that the city committed.”
San Diego officially apologized and announced the revocation of a 1942 resolution that supported the incarceration of many Japanese Americans during World War II.
Council members on Tuesday acknowledged the city’s racist past when it imprisoned more than 1,900 San Diego County residents of Japanese descent in the concentration camps in the western United States and Arkansas during WWII.
Chinese man documents his investigation into alleged Uyghur ‘concentration camps’ in video
A Chinese man has gone viral for his bravery in investigating the alleged Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang since foreign journalists are not allowed to conduct interviews in the region.
The investigation: The man, who goes by Guanguan on YouTube, created a 20-minute documentary that shows some of the locations of the alleged Uyghur concentration camps across Xinjiang.
George Takei to Star in Horror Show About Concentration Camps During WWII
AMC‘s horror anthology series “The Terror” is set to return for a second season starring veteran actor George Takei.
The show, which features real-life historical events with an added supernatural twist, will depict the internment of Japanese-American citizens in the U.S. during World War II in season two titled “The Terror: Infamy.”
Supreme Court Reverses Infamous Korematsu Decision that Allowed Japanese-American Internment
The United States Supreme Court has finally overturned the infamous Korematsu decision on Japanese-American internment during a hearing that also upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban,
In a 6–3 decision in 1944, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government on the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.
Woman Finds WWII Photo of Japanese Couple Before Concentration Camp, Vows to Find Owners
A woman from Cannon Beach, Oregon, has called on others to help her look for family members of a Japanese couple from an old photograph.
Judi Palumbo took her search to Facebook on Monday night, writing that the picture was taken in Kauai, Hawaii:
