And then they began coming home … to no homes at all. Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in wartime ...

After having their lives taken away and being sent to prisons around the country, Japanese Americans used baseball to find ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – It was just a three-minute scrimmage, but when 9-year-old Quentin Sykes sank a buzzer beater to seal his team's 4-0 win, the entire Youth Center here erupted like he’d just clenched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A horse stall converted to a family "apartment" at the Tanforan Assembly Center, a racetrack turned detention camp for Americans ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in ...

In a desolate valley of Southern California’s high desert, an act of restoration is unfolding that befits the resolve of the intended honorees. With every prickly chunk of cleared tumbleweed, every ...

Japanese American National Museum Volunteer Barbara Keimi stamps the Ireichō. (photo by Mike Palma, all images courtesy Japanese American National Museum, unless otherwise noted) America’s Cultural ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – An event here brought about 50 American and Japanese teens together for two days of cultural exchange activities meant to cultivate diverse perspectives and enhance mutual ...

WAAKIRCHEN, Germany — Eighty years ago, Abba Naor was among several thousand Jews and other prisoners evacuated from Nazi concentration camps and forced to walk for days on the notorious Dachau death ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...