A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 17, 1944, the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command rescinded orders to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry ...
Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...
Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. "Our family suffered a lot," ...
Editor's Note: KING 5's Lori Matsukawa originally reported on the impact of Japanese internment leading up to the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which was February 19, 2017. One year later, ...
Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...
DENVER - Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops - but only the red ...
A listener compares the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the Jewish Holocaust under the Nazis and raises the question of... Updated 02/14 1:35 p.m. (Click for the latest): More ...
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