Japanese American leaders slam Trump for comparing Jan. 6th rioters to WWII incarceration

Japanese American leaders have lambasted former President Donald Trump for comparing rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to Jap...

San Jose State apologizes for campus’ role in WWII incarceration of Japanese American

San Jose State University (SJSU) commemorated the Day of Remembrance of the incarceration of Japanese Americans by issuing a formal apology ...

Prominent Japanese American activist Alan Nishio dies at 78

Community leaders, members and activists are mourning the passing of Alan Nishio, a pillar in the Los Angeles Japanese American community an...

George Takei to release picture book on his time in Japanese American incarceration camps

“‘My Lost Freedom’ is my new children’s picture book about how my family persevered despite living in the Japanese America...

Seattle commemorates ‘No-No Boy’ author John Okada on his 100th birthday

His seminal work delves into the life of a young Japanese American during wartime ...

California attorney general apologizes for agency’s role in WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has formally apologized for his office’s past role in forcing over 100,000 Japanese Americans to reloc...

Banned George Takei ‘The Twilight Zone’ episode now available to stream

CBS made the decision to ban the episode following complaints from the Japanese American community as its broadcast coincided with the U.S. ...

DeSantis signs bill requiring AAPI history in Florida schools

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that mandates the inclusion of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in the state’s...

Meet the Japanese American jailed for refusing to go to WWII incarceration camp

As the U.S. government rolled out an order to place all Japanese Americans and immigrants of Japanese descent to incarceration camps during ...

Theodore Kanamine, the US Army’s first Japanese American general, dies at 93

Theodore “Ted” Shigeru Kanamine, the U.S. Army’s first-ever Japanese American general, died on Thursday at 93. According to Kana...

Biden: Japanese American incarceration camps ‘one of the most shameful periods in American history’

In a recent statement, President Joe Biden called the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II “one of the most shameful peri...

George Takei recalls ‘horrifying, terrifying’ morning his family was taken to an American concentration camp

George Takei gave a detailed account of the morning he and his family were sent to an American concentration camp in a new interview. On Mon...

Ralph Macchio defends ‘Karate Kid’ from ‘very white’ criticism

During a recent interview with Stellar Magazine, Ralph Macchio defended the classic 1984 film “The Karate Kid” from critics who have said t...

Soil from 75 former Japanese American WWII incarceration sites collected for memorial

Ceramic pieces to be made from soil collected from the 75 Japanese incarceration camps across the U.S. were presented at the National Monum...

Complete list of WWII Japanese internees unveiled in LA weighs 25 pounds

This year marks the 80th anniversary of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s authorization of Executive Order 9066 in February 194...

Wisconsin school district rejects award-winning novel about Japanese internment for being ‘diverse’

The Muskego-Norway School Board rejected the use of “When the Emperor Was Divine,” a book recommended by the district’s curriculum committe...

40 Japanese Americans interned while students during WWII receive high school diplomas 80 years later

Forty Japanese American students who were denied their chance to graduate during World War II finally received their diplomas from Mt. Diab...

USC awards honorary degrees, dedicates rock garden to incarcerated Japanese American students of WWII

On April 1, the University of Southern California opened a traditional Japanese rock garden to honor 120 Japanese American students who wer...

President Biden signs bill designating former Japanese incarceration camp in Colorado as historic site

President Biden signed a bill on Friday designating a former World War II Japanese incarceration camp as a national historic site in Colora...

Japanese American internment camp survivor dies at 100, lawsuit ongoing against nursing home

Grace Watanabe, who was among the thousands of Japanese Americans forcibly detained in U.S. internment camps during World War II, has passed...

Meet Mitsuye Endo, The Woman Whose Supreme Court Case Ended Japanese Concentration Camps

Mitsuye Endo is an unsung hero who was the only plaintiff to win a court case that led to the process of ending Japanese American incarcerat...

Arcadia Appoints First Japanese American as New Police Chief

Arcadia, a city in California known as a Japanese incarceration site during World War II, has appointed its first Japanese American police c...

Statue of Japanese American Civil Rights Icon Vandalized in Oakland

Amid the Oakland protests occurring over the weekend, the bust of civil rights leader and former city councilmember Frank Hirao Ogawa was de...

11 reasons why quarantine is nothing like when Americans were forced into concentration camps

Amid the country’s stay-at-home orders to contain the mass spread of the coronavirus, several claims from right-wing pundits and polit...

Bellevue College VP Put on Leave After ‘Removing History’ on Mural for Japanese American Concentration Camps

Bellevue College, a public college in Washington state, has apologized for editing an art installation that commemorated the incarceration o...

California Will Finally Apologize For Putting Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps During WWII

California is preparing to say sorry for its role in mistreating Japanese Americans during World War II. On Thursday, lawmakers in the state...

Xinjiang Police Chief Reportedly Detained for Worrying About Dying Uyghurs

A police chief in Xinjiang who expressed concerns over the mass detention and possible deaths of his fellow Uyghurs in internment camps repo...

Iconic Activist Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Who Called Out the U.S. Government’s Racism in WWII Dies at 93

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, the Japanese-American political activist who persuaded Congress to approve reparations for her fellow inmates of Worl...

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...

New Museum Reminds The World of Japanese Concentration Camps During WW2

The newly established Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah held its grand opening ceremony this weekend, a testament to the 11,212 Japanese-Americans...

New WWII Film Proves Hollywood Has Learned NOTHING About Whitewashing

This post has been updated to clarify historical accuracy. Actor Zach McGowan has been cast in the lead role as Hawaiian native Ben Kanahele...

Disturbing Photos Reveal How the U.S. Treated Japanese-Americans During WWII

Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. rounded up roughly 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry (62% of whom were U.S. citizens...