With 110 years of life behind her, Yoshiko Miwa isn’t going to wallow in the negative, and she doesn’t want you to either.

Descendants of the immigrants who built Sacramento's Japantown gather to honor their legacy and what they lost.

Researchers who spent years fixing errors in shoddy government records have partnered with Ancestry to make a wide selection ...

An annual pilgrimage to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated ...

Sam Mihara, 91, shared his first-hand account of the American internment of over 100,000 Japanese immigrants and U.S.-born ...

For Japanese Americans in the Central Valley, Highway 99 served as a dividing line. Those west of the highway were sent to Jerome, Arkansas, and those east of 99, such as Zenimura, were sent to ...

The names and stories of thousands of Japanese Americans forced into incarceration camps during World War II have been ...

The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made ...

MARYSVILLE, Yuba County (KPIX) — Two cousins from Chicago recently made the cross-country journey to a Northern California community to see if they could find answers about their family history.

Join us at the Idaho State Museum to celebrate the grand opening of our newest exhibit, Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American World War II Experience. Festivities begin at ...

The world's largest geneaology site has partnered with a USC-led project created to make a comprehensive list of incarcerees.

Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, to allow for the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry. The thousands of citizens — two-thirds of whom were Americans — were ...