Japanese internment

Commissioned by Meta Open Arts, Japanese American artist Michelle Kumata's latest installation honors the Nikkei farmers of Bellevue who were incarcerated during World War II.

Paul Chihara was just 4 years old when he and his family were forced from their Seattle home and sent to an incarceration camp in Idaho. Now 83, Chihara returns to his hometown to debut a piece that commemorates 80 years since Executive Order 9066.

Julian Saporiti turned his Ph.D. dissertation into the musical project No-No Boy. He's released a number of songs that explore the untold histories of Asian Americans and immigrants.

During World War II, more than 7,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in a prison camp in Puyallup. Now, a sculpture reflecting that history will stand outside the Puyallup library.

A new graphic novel is being released called “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.” It’s part of a three-part series of graphic…

Tacoma was once home to vibrant Japanese-American neighborhood full of photo studios, barbershops, and families. That was before almost 900 people of…

"I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."

Echoes from Northwest history rang loudly for people in the present at a memorial ceremony Thursday to mark 75 years since the U.S. government forcibly...

Two months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the executive order that paved the way for Japanese-American internment. Decades later, those dark days resonate.

Many of the incarcerated were farmers, coerced to work the land in the camps. The food they grew was meant for the incarcerated but camp administrators sold it on the open market. Resistance ensued.