Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

The traveling exhibition “Taken From Their Families” tells the story of Japanese American incarceration on Angel Island ...

Robin Tahara Miller will present her story as a Japanese-American during Wednesday's Lifelong Learning Institute of Elkhart County Midwinter Lecture at Greencroft Community Center's Jennings ...

President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

Some pundits claim that this idea has proved false because the Democrats have lurched to the left, adopting a platform that ...

Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...

Along the back wall of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon’s new exhibition, Jensaku Makita’s story plays out. Makita was the only Oregonian incarcerated during World War II on Angel Island ...

The beloved art exhibit, located in the Chinatown-International District, was vandalized on Jan. 20. Posted: January 26, 2025 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon State Representative Mari Watanabe was sworn into office at Portland’s Japanese Garden on Sunday – making history as the state’s first Japanese American ...

Crews have cleaned up most of the damage done by an act of vandalism that targeted a historic mural in the Japantown area of Seattle's CID neighborhood.