Japanese internment camp survivor criticizes current immigration policy: 'We have to stop history from repeating itself'

It has been 84 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese ...
The World from PRX

Japanese internment survivors fear White House could repeat history

It’s a troubling chapter of American history that is often overlooked: The incarceration of more than 120,000 US residents of Japanese descent during World War II, following Japan’s attack on Pearl ...
Opinion

Julie Morita: My parents were interned in camps for Japanese Americans. We are repeating that national sin.

Reflecting on the interment of Japanese Americans and what is happening today challenges us to see how fragile our civil liberties are.
The GW HatchetOpinion

Artist confronts family history, Japanese Internment through art

In partnership with the National Gallery of Art and For Freedoms, visual artist Marina Berio presented her self-published ...

‘Wrong in 1942. Wrong now.’ Local Japanese Americans tie WWII incarceration to Trump’s immigration crackdown

Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 ...
AOL

Army base used for WWII Japanese internment will be nation's largest ICE detention center

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 ...
Yahoo

15 years later, Turlock’s internment memorial stands as a reminder of dark history

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years ago, a granite monument was installed at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds to commemorate a chapter in the region’s ...
KQED

Elderly Japanese Americans Warn Same Threats Rising That Led to Internment

Here are the headline stories in the state for Friday, February 20th, 2026: This week marks the 84th anniversary of the United States, under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, enacting Executive Order ...
CBS News

San Pedro man, Japanese internment survivor and U.S. veteran, shares his story on "Day of Remembrance"

Today, the country is observing "Day of Remembrance" for Japanese American internment during World War II and one San Pedro man tells his story about surviving and serving. Ed Nakamura turned 100 ...
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Lessons from the Ireicho: Japanese Americans share stories, reflect on internment during World War II

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 ...
Concord Monitor

Opinion: Learning from the Japanese-American internment

U.S. soldiers at the Presidio in San Francisco gather around the bed of one of their comrades, Dec. 7, 1941, to read an extra reporting of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by the Japanese. Credit: ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

The Grauer School’s history classes host Holocaust and Japanese American internment speakers

The 10th grade World History and 11th grade US History classes at The Grauer School, an independent school in Encinitas, recently hosted Holocaust and Japanese American Internment speakers, ...