It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island’s ...

The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps ...

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (SBCGS) will host family historian Tommy Dyo in a free talk titled Dyo and Fukui Journeys: Immigrant ...

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society invites the public to its free monthly meeting on Saturday, July 19, featuring a ...

Michael Hiltzik was such a newcomer, arriving in California from New York in 1981. He describes himself as “single, in my ...

On a cloudy morning adjacent to a monument honoring the Japanese Fishing Village in San Pedro — which was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to ...

Wikimedia Commons/ National Archives and Records Administration Pearl Harbor Fueled Anti-Japanese Sentiment After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, fear and racism swept across America.

The camp stood in California’s Owens Valley between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the high desert. Officials picked this ...

Manzanar, Tule Lake, Minidoka, Topaz, Jerome, Rohwer, Heart Mountain, Gila River, Poston, Amache — these are the names that ...