The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles has, for the first time ever, compiled the names of all 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 forced more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent to live for years in incarceration camps.

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt enacted Executive Order 9066, which mandated the removal of people of Japanese descent from their communities and sent them to incarceration camps.

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, visited a nursing home near Sao Paulo on Saturday to interact with locals of ...

This initial roundup “proved to be a trial run” for the widespread removal of Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent from the West Coast in the spring and summer of 1942, according ...

The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles has, for the first time ever, compiled the names of all 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II.

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt enacted Executive Order 9066, which mandated the removal of people of Japanese descent from their communities and sent them to incarceration camps.