In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of ...

How can a U.S. president change the country without Congress voting on a new law? This video explains how executive orders work, why they carry the force of law, and how presidents have used them to ...

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

Landscapes of Home follows the lives of two doctors living in the Japanese Canadian internment camps who lost their homes and identities.

A family’s experience with internment during World War II and how traditional Japanese poetry helped them through it will be presented later this month in Oak Park. Writer and editor Nancy Matsumoto ...

In Stockton, a day of reflection was held inside an old building at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. It's the site of a ...

Mary Lee helps tell the story of "Dick" Miyagawa, a 1942 NCAA boxing champ, who was a student at San Jose State before being ...

I was raised Jewish and am proud of my heritage, but I’ve been a staunch atheist since the age of 14] Dearly beloved, we are ...

In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, ...

As immigration enforcement grows, experts say the terms used to describe detention centers shape how the public understands ...

George Takei, Tammy Duckworth, and Connie Chung are just a few of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders who have blazed ...

Colorado College is known for experiential learning, so when students were studying the impact of World War II on Japanese ...