Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Los Angeles, 1937 : from cantaloupe sunrises to the cantaloupe farms -- The significance of silence -- As a child, I did not know I was Japanese' as an adult, ...

Daniel Grossman, a WVU researcher, found low birth weights are one of the negative health outcomes still reverberating for Japanese Americans decades after the incarceration camps and forced ...

Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The United States government stripped the Americans who lived in these camps of their liberties, but ...

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...

In spring 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano needed a way to fill her time. She was imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center along with approximately 10,000 other people of Japanese ancestry. When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 2024 exhibition game at Manzanar, players – many of them descendants of internment camp detainees – donned custom 1940s-style ...

Wakako Kondoh Burk at bride school in Yokosuka, Japan in 1957. The American Red Cross created “Bride Schools” to teach Japanese women how to be an “American” wife and mother. (Photo courtesy of ...

West Virginia University research has revealed negative intergenerational reproductive health effects from the Japanese American detainment camps of World War II. Women who had likely been ...