Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manzanar National Historic Site arborist Dave Goto walks among pear trees in an orchard on the former 814-acre Japanese American ...

Reporting from Independence, Calif. — Masako Miki came to this picturesque landscape of snow-tipped mountains and desert shrubs Saturday on a mission of remembrance. Miki, raised an ocean away in the ...

Manzanar in California preserves a WWII incarceration camp, honoring 10,000+ Japanese Americans and documenting a major civil liberties violation.

LOS ANGELES – Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, who uncovered proof that thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the United States during World War II were held not for reasons of national security but ...

A new orchestral work uses the story of Manzanar to send a message its creators hope will influence future generations. The music references the World War II internment camps that tens of thousands of ...

When Jeelanne Khattab learned about Manzanar for the first time this year, she immediately knew that she needed to visit the site where more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during ...

It cannot be said that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston likes to rush things. Thirty years after she and her husband, Jim Houston, co-wrote "Farewell to Manzanar," an autobiographical account of the Japanese ...

In 1943, legendary photographer Ansel Adams took portraits of Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Manzanar Relocation Camp in California. “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering ...

LOS ANGELES — Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, who uncovered proof that thousands of Japanese Americans incarcerated in the United States during World War II were held not for reasons of national security but ...

In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie. By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, who uncovered proof that thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the United States during World War II were held not for reasons of national security ...

MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Calif. — The orchards planted in the 1920s around the old town of Manzanar have faced drought, flooding, wildfires, pests, marauding elk and trespassers armed with ...