In other words, these Americans of Japanese heritage, sent away from their homes and communities to Manzanar, were still trying to help the United States win. Remarkable. Judi Healey, La Cañada ...

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 ...

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII. MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed ...

An amateur game at Manzanar to commemorate Japanese American internment during WWII coincided with the World ... a weathered wooden fence strung with barbed wire and a wind-battered guard tower.

Volunteers are restoring the Manzanar War Reloctation Center's baseball field. In the fall, Japanese-American baseball players play where many of their families were held during World War II.

As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II.

During WWII, baseball united Japanese-Americans held in U.S. internment camps. This weekend two Japanese teams played at the remote Manzanar internment camp, the first games there since the war ended.

Kwong said he wants October baseball at Manzanar, with its colorful players, gamesmanship, and cheering to become a yearly tradition. He says a public opening is planned for October of next year.

Director Ann Kaneko’s film, “Manzanar, Diverted,” takes viewers to a valley north of Los Angeles and tells its story from many vantage points. The extraction of water for the city. The ...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, chronicler of wartime internment, dies at 90. With her husband, she co-wrote the memoir “Farewell to Manzanar,” recounting the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans ...