MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita ...

Every year on the last Saturday of April, Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated congregate with family and other supporters at Manzanar National Historic Site for a day of remembrance, but as the ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, businesses, personal property.

Wednesday marks 83 years since the signing of a presidential executive order that sent roughly 120,000 innocent Japanese ...

"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” ...

The filmmaker would go on to revisit internment and its legacy several times in his work, including his 1972 short “Manzanar,” which depicts his recollection of his time there, and 1995’s ...

During World War II, Japanese Americans held at Manzanar found joy and normalcy in baseball. More than 80 years later, their field is back. Sometimes history needs to be unearthed, and other times it ...

Sue Kunitomi Embrey, who was interned with thousands of Japanese-Americans at Manzanar in World War II and later fought to have the ...