The Carpinteria Valley Museum of History kicks off its Talk & Talkback Speaker Series on Wednesday, May 27, at the Alcazar ...

PIEDMONT — The Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Committee’s first free film showing of the season, “And Then They Came for Us,” on Sept. 27 is a heartbreaking portrayal of the Japanese-American ...

Just hours after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, U.S. authorities were detaining Dr. Seiichi Ohata in Paia. He was initially taken to the old Wailuku Jail and then sent to Fort ...

George Takei was 5 years old when the United States government classified him as an “enemy alien.” Takei was one of over one hundred thousand innocent Japanese American citizens the government sent to ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. When Japanese Americans were taken to internment camps in Manzanar, California, during the Second World War, fragments of memories and hastily gathered ...