During WWII, the United States government incarcerated about 120,000 innocent Japanese, Japanese American and Japanese Latin American people during World War II because Japan was seen as its enemy at the time. Now, former Japanese American and Japanese Latin American...
By ELEANOR HEDGES DUROY, age 12 PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons I am a second generation Japanese-American who studied journalism in college. After I graduated from college, I could not find a job in the United States because white Americans did not want to hire me in the...
By ELEANOR HEDGES DUROY, age 11 IMAGE: Winifred Conkling Sylvia & Aki, by Winifred Conkling, takes place in Westminster, Calif., and Poston War Relocation Center, Ariz., during WWII (1941-1945). It is based on the lives of two real children, Aki Munemitsu and...
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