At 87 years old, Japanese American and former ... was shipped away to the incarceration camp, Poston War Relocation Center, in the desert of southern Arizona during World War II.

At night, while her younger siblings were asleep, Sato and her parents stayed up planning for what they called the "train trip"—the family's forced removal from their Sacramento fruit farm to a ...

110,000 Japanese Americans were held in 10 internment camps from May 1942 to January ... Gila River and Poston in Arizona, Minidoka in Idaho, Jerome and Rowher in Arkansas, Topaz in Utah and ...

Japan. She and her family were relocated from Bakersfield, California to the internment camp Poston Arizona in 1942. Tsuyako and her extended family were relocated to Denver, Colorado in 1943.

That was the moment I first learned, at 17, that civilians of Japanese ancestry ... 40419 Naruo born after camps closed, parents incarcerated at Gila River (Arizona); Hashimoto incarcerated ...

Following a century of anti-Asian racism and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the US forced more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into detainment camps. asked them if they supported the war.

(This is part of our ongoing series, Lost Kinjo- a look at the more than 40 Japanese communities that ... While incarcerated in Poston, Arizona, Jon’s father Al was among a group of men granted ...

From 1942 to 1945 Helen and her family, along with tens of thousands of other Japanese Americans, were imprisoned in a concentration camp at Poston, Arizona, even as her oldest brother ...

Japan’s cultural impact can be seen throughout the U.S., especially in Arizona with events such as the Arizona Matsuri Festival, Taste of Japan and Saboten Con, among many more. When Harumi ...

Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during ...