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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.
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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.
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Property owners are cashing in right now as Seattle’s real estate market booms.But that’s not the main goal of Jan Johnson, owner of Seattle’s historic…
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A Seattle group is building an online encyclopedia to catalogue the stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.The group “Densho”…
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, U.S. government officials rounded up Japanese Americans and sent them to harsh, ill-equipped camps. Now, the…
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The muse behind Steve Grigg’s musical project is a brick, six-story, century-old building that stands in what used to be Seattle’s Japantown. The Panama…
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Washington State University in Pullman previewed a photo collection this morning that's considered to be the largest ever of a World War II internment…
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The largest private collection of photographs taken during World War II at an internment camp for Japanese-Americans is being donated to Washington State…