The lives of Japanese-Americans were turned upside down after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order ...

The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at ...

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

Bellevue introduces "Emerging Radiance," honoring Japanese American farm families affected by WWII incarceration.

In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.

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

But some of the federal government’s worst actions also came via executive order. Roosevelt, for example, used an executive order to force the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans to ...

Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...