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The San Diego City Council is apologizing for supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The San Diego City Council is apologizing for supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The San Diego City Council is apologizing for supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The San Diego City Council is apologizing for supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Why, indeed, do people believe that cattle mutilations are the work of aliens? Let me tell you a fascinating and sinister

By Jonathan van Harmelen Part 1, continued from Mar. 25 NAP Both “The Sun” and “The Daily Province” continued to follow news of Japanese American families returning to the West Coast, with close attention paid to acts of domestic terrorism committed against returning families. Both papers continued to print stories on the fate of Japanese

As I have discussed in previous articles in “Discover Nikkei,” the news of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II seeped beyond the borders of the U.S. and traveled around the world.

A look back at the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The U.S. orchestrated the racially motivated detention of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, of which almost two thirds were U.S. citizens.

When Japanese fighter pilots bombed the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, Thomas S Takemura was raising vegetables and raspberries on his family’s 14 ½-acre farm in Tacoma, Washington. It wasn’t long after the United States declared war on Japan th...