SACRAMENTO, Calif. — War Relocation Authority staff photographers took hundreds of photos after Executive Order 9066 led some 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry to be forcibly relocated into American concentration camps. These photos depict what life was like for these citizens who lost everything in just a few days. More than 70 years later, photojournalist […]
NPS solicits public comment on the future of the Tule Lake Unit
October 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The National Park Service held a planning meeting for the general public in San Francisco Japantown regarding the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The Sept. 19 meeting, held at Nihonmachi Terrace, is one of more than a dozen that were held along the West Coast, along […]
Colorizing a dark chapter in American history
January 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
COLORS OF CONFINEMENT: RARE KODACHROME PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION IN WORLD WAR II Edited by Eric L. Muller (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill in association with Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2012, 136 pp., $35, cloth) This volume is at once a wonderful and rare addition to […]
No-nos, renunciants speak out about stigma over wartime actions
November 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
TORRANCE, Calif. — The “No-No Boys” and renunciants, Nikkei prisoners who protested the injustice of having to answer a “loyalty questionnaire” while incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II, were the focus of a forum held on Oct. 27 at the Katy Geissert Civic Center Library Community Room in Torrance. Although 70 years […]
THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana (pt. 2)
November 10, 2011 by 2 Comments
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series. The Second World War hit Louisiana’s Japanese population hard. On Dec. 8, the Japanese consulate closed its doors and its Japanese alien employees were incarcerated. Japanese shrimp boats were grounded, and the Hinata art store in New Orleans closed its doors. The Hinata daughters, anticipating […]
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