The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, is remembered for its brave actions in World War II. Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the most ...

American commanders said it would save money and the lives of American servicemen and Japanese soldiers and civilians ... key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb ...

Library of Congress On May 7, 1900, San Francisco Mayor James Duval Phelan had said, “Chinese and Japanese are not bona fide citizens. They are not the stuff of which American citizens can be ...

In 1940, Japanese-American farmers grew 95% of the fresh snap beans and spring and summer celery, 67% of the fresh tomatoes and 44% of the onions in California. 110,000 Japanese Americans were ...

The remains of some 1,400 people sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing. So far just six have been identified and returned to their families.

The American government relocated Japanese families to internment camps. Mihara and his family were placed in the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. The camp, Misada said, had a vast population, with ...

Civilians followed them, and the south became a tangled mess of Japanese soldiers, American soldiers and civilians caught in the crossfire. Civilians dodged bullets and sea and air bombardments.