Being incarcerated at a place like Manzanar convinced Kurihara that America—both its people and its government—held DeWitt’s view that “a Jap is a Jap”; nothing could ever prove his loyalty.

Together in Manzanar is the story of a California family interned in an American concentration camp during WWII.

Bay Area residents may be familiar with the country’s dark, shameful history of imprisoning more than 120,000 Americans based purely on their Japanese ancestry during World War II — shameful ...

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The land on which Mira Costa High sits was once owned by Francis Miyosaku Uyematsu, a Japanese farmer known as the “Camelia King.” ...

The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...