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Dorothea Lange took this photograph in March 1942, just before his internment. A child is "Tagged for evacuation", Salinas, California, May 1942. Photo by Russell Lee. A Japanese American shop, Asahi Dye Works, closing. The notice on the front is a reference to Owens Valley being the first and one of the largest Japanese American detention centers.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
Japanese Relocation is a 1942 short film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. It is a propaganda film, justifying and explaining Japanese American internment on the West Coast during World War II.
By the fall of 1942, the Japanese people had been evacuated out of the West Coast and into inland internment camps built by the United States government to hold over 80,000 evacuees. [1] Propaganda in favor of Japanese-American internment was produced by both the government and local citizens through mediums such as movies and print.
The Day of Remembrance (DOR, Japanese: 追憶の日, [1] Tsuioku no Hi) is a day of commemoration for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. [2] It is a day for people of Japanese descent in the U.S. to reflect upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066. [3]
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” At 99 ...
Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII: 2009 Junichi Suzuki Unfinished Business: 1985 Steven Okazaki: The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park.