MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita, who 80 years ...

Dan Kwong stands on the pitcher's mound at the restored baseball field at Manzanar National Historic Site, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. As millions cheered Shohei ...

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A slate of panelists will discuss Manzanar and the photographs decades later of the infamous site by Brian Goodman during an art salon at 7 p.m. Nov. 17. Northwind Arts Center and Port ...

About 1,000 people converged on Manzanar National Historic Site in California last weekend for the 54th annual pilgrimage to honor the Japanese Americans who were held here during World War II. “The ...

In February, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that led to the forced removal of some 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes. They were sent to live in rural ...

Bruce Embrey’s mother was one of more than 120,000 innocent Japanese and Japanese Americans imprisoned by the federal government during World War II, and Embrey spent decades fighting to preserve the ...

MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, Calif. — The orchards planted in the 1920s around the old town of Manzanar have faced drought, flooding, wildfires, pests, marauding elk and trespassers armed with ...

Although many members of the Greatest Generation are no longer with us, Americans always will remember the sacrifice that began Dec. 7, 1941. That’s when Imperial Japan attacked United States bases at ...