The Tragic Story Of Japan's Rocket-Powered Kamikaze Plane From World War II
The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...
New Japanese American Museum of Oregon exhibit highlights lesser-known story of Angel Island
The traveling exhibition “Taken From Their Families” tells the story of Japanese American incarceration on Angel Island ...
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Okinawans work to preserve history of World War II battle
The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...
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Bay Area Japanese Americans Draw on WWII Trauma to Resist Deportation Threats
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...
Mural depicting Seattle's Japanese-American history cleaned up after being vandalized
Crews have cleaned up most of the damage done by an act of vandalism that targeted a historic mural in the Japantown area of Seattle's CID neighborhood.
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Oldest person in the world dies at 116 years old
a Japanese woman, passed away at the age of 116. Tomiko Itooka was born in May of 1908, was married at 20, and took over her husband's textile factory during World War II. According to CNN ...
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Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116
Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese ...