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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
With Their Lives Upended, They Practiced the Art of Resilience
Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment ...
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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 ...
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.
Remembering Mitsuye Endo’s sacrifice to end Japanese American incarceration
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...