An air of trepidation enveloped our group as we entered the museum at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, just south of Independence on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada range. On February 19, ...

A visit to the Manzanar National Historic Site is a sobering experience. There are two ways to look at it; but first, some of the basic facts. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial forces of Japan attacked ...

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 ...

It’s hard to believe that more than 10,000 people once lived on the barren stretch of land that is now known as the Manzanar National Historic Site. Located adjacent to U.S. 395, about five miles ...

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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 ...

We explore Manzanar National Historic Site on the east side of the dramatic Sierra Nevada. During World War II, 10,000 Japanese-Americans and people of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in Manzanar ...

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 ...