On This Day: Executive Order 9066 and Japanese-American Internment In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese-Americans ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the forced relocation of Japanese Americans.

An exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles marks the 75th anniversary of 9066, the executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.

President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The rule imprisoned about 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (out of ...

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

Ikeda works to educate the public concerning the toll that Executive Order 9066 had on 120,000 Japanese Americans and, more specifically, the 13,000 that were relocated to the internment camp ...

In a CNN interview, Star Trek actor George Takei warned about political hysteria, comparing his WWII Japanese internment ...

The event was held ahead of the anniversary that marks 81 years since 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

Steve Okamoto stands inside the replica horse stall at the Tanforan Memorial in San Bruno, Calif., on June 11, 2025. The ...

A wall is dedicated to telling the story of nine Japanese American students who graduated from then-Park College during World War II.

On Feb. 19, 1942, Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 authorized the creation of military zones on the West Coast and the forced removal of residents of Japanese descent.

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order that led to the forced relocation of Japanese Americans in the tens of thousands. People looking back on the period hear its ...