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 ...

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

This 1945 photo provided by the Matsumura family via the National Park Service shows a memorial service for Giichi Matsumura, who died on nearby Mount Williamson during his incarceration at an ...

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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 ...

More info: Email tahoe.programs@gmail.com or call 530-573-3185 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of “Farewell to Manzanar” will invite listeners to ask questions about the book next week at the South ...

A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in ...