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Return to Manzanar
Every year on the last Saturday of April, Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated congregate with family and other supporters at Manzanar National Historic Site for a day of remembrance, but as the ...
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The Manzanar Controversy
"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...
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A Diamond in the Desert
During World War II, Japanese Americans held at Manzanar found joy and normalcy in baseball. More than 80 years later, their field is back. Sometimes history needs to be unearthed, and other times it ...
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'The ghost of Manzanar': Japanese WW2 internee's body found in US
Giichi Matsumura and his family were detained in Manzanar internment camp during World War Two A skeleton found in California last October has been identified as a Japanese-American artist who was ...
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Japanese American internment camp site plays ball
Japanese Americans returned to Manzanar National Historic Site over the weekend for a landmark event — the first baseball games played there since World War II. The site is where the former Manzanar ...
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Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita ...
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As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at Manzanar prison camp
The field was at Manzanar, one of 10 camps where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans — the vast majority U.S. citizens born and raised in this country — were imprisoned during World War II.
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In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.
As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in ...
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Japanese Americans reclaim power with historic baseball game at Manzanar prison camp
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita, who 80 ...
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Letters to the Editor: Manzanar is a 'sobering reminder of what our country is capable of doing to its own citizens'
To the editor: Your article on baseball at the Manzanar prison camp in California's Owens Valley did a huge disservice by describing the site as not much more than "a few old barracks, a weathered ...
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As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at Manzanar prison camp
MANZANAR, Calif. — As millions cheered Shohei Ohtani’s debut in the World Series at Dodger Stadium, a couple of dozen ballplayers of Japanese descent gathered last weekend on a dusty field 200 ...