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Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested by the Taliban in August 2001 in connection with her work for Christian aid organization Shelter Now, held in captivity until November 15, 2001. [1] [2] Timothy John Weeks, a professor, was kidnapped along with American professor Kevin King by the Taliban on August 7, 2016, while traveling in Kabul. Their ...
The Japanese American Museum of Oregon was opened in May 2021 at the Naito Center on 411 NW Flanders Street, named for local Japanese-American businessman, civic leader, veteran, and philanthropist Bill Naito. The Government of Japan has an official Consular office in downtown Portland at the Wells Fargo Center near Terry Schrunk Plaza.
The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan, called Nikkei were incarcerated.
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.
Karen Read listens to arguments over whether the judge should drop some of the charges against her during a hearing in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024.
Don Tamaki, a Bay Area-based attorney and one of the nine task force members, has a history of working for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans following their forced incarceration ...
As America again found itself in war, another slab was added to include the names of those lost in Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, and aboard the USS Maine precipitating the Spanish–American War in 1898, paying tribute to the patriotism and sacrifice of Japanese Americans for over a century of service to America.
Japanese Americans have been returning to their ancestorial homeland for years as a form of return migration. [1] With a history of being racially discriminated against, the anti-immigration actions the United States government forced onto Japan, and the eventual internment of Japanese Americans (immigrants and citizens alike), return migration was often seen as a better alternative.