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.

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

Despite this history of erasure, a number of Zainichi — there are estimated to be about 400,000 people of Korean descent living in Japan — have become prominent artists or cultural figures in ...

People of Japanese descent are forcibly removed from Bainbridge Island in Washington state on March 30, 1942. (Uncredited/AP) By David Nakamura.

Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in "Pictures of Belonging" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

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.

Northwest now is supported in part by viewers like you. Thank you. Executive order 966 was signed in February of 1942, ordering the removal of all people of Japanese descent into detention camps.

About 9,000 people of Japanese ancestry from King County, and about 120,000 people of Japanese descent nationwide, would be incarcerated at guarded prison camps mostly in the Western interior.

Art Japanese incarceration interrupted these artists’ careers, but not their art. Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in “Pictures of Belonging” at the ...