Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

In 1941, following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Government rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese Americans ... Her family was sent to an internment camp in Arkansas.

Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...

Mihara is a second-generation Japanese American, born and raised in San Francisco. When World War II broke out, the U.S. government forced Sam, at the age of 9, and his family to move to the Heart ...