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California baseball event at WWII-era camp

A baseball event is held on Oct. 26, 2024, at the site of the Manzanar incarceration camp in Independence, California, to raise awareness of the experiences of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Four teams from Japanese American baseball leagues in the state played on a field restored to its wartime condition under a U.S. National Park Service project at the historic site in the desert near the Nevada border.

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California baseball event at WWII-era camp

A baseball event is held on Oct. 26, 2024, at the site of the Manzanar incarceration camp in Independence, California, to raise awareness of the experiences of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Four teams from Japanese American baseball leagues in the state played on a field restored to its wartime condition under a U.S. National Park Service project at the historic site in the desert near the Nevada border.

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California baseball event at WWII-era camp

A baseball event is held on Oct. 26, 2024, at the site of the Manzanar incarceration camp in Independence, California, to raise awareness of the experiences of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Four teams from Japanese American baseball leagues in the state played on a field restored to its wartime condition under a U.S. National Park Service project at the historic site in the desert near the Nevada border.

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Reception held in Los Angeles to commemorate 130th birth anniversary of U.S. General Chennault

STORY: Reception held in Los Angeles to commemorate 130th birth anniversary of U.S. General Chennault SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 19, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, U.S. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event STORYLINE: Hundreds of Chinese and Americans gathered at a reception held in Los Angeles Monday evening to commemorate the 130th birth anniversary of U.S. General Claire Lee Chennault, who led the wartime Flying Tigers pilots to fight Japanese invaders in China during World War II. In 1941, General Chennault formed the team of "Flying Tigers," officially known as the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese people to fight the invading Japanese troops. Recalling that history, Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles Guo Shaochun said during the war, the Flying Tigers destroyed more than 2,900 enemy planes and 44 Japanese naval vessels. More than 2,000 American Flying Tigers sacrificed their lives

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Tennis: U.S. Open

Japanese seventh seeds Ena Shibahara (front) and Shuko Aoyama play their first-round women's doubles match against Americans Robin Montgomery and Clervie Ngounoue at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Aug. 30, 2023.

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Abe remembers Japanese-Americans at L.A. monument, museum

LOS ANGELES, May 2 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and his wife Akie lay a wreath in front of the Go For Broke Monument with the names of more than 16,000 American soldiers of Japanese descent inscribed on it in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles on May 1, 2015.

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Japan students thank Americans for return of boat lost in tsunami

CRESCENT CITY, United States - Students from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose aboard a crab-fishing vessel with fishermen and other people in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. The Japanese students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was washed up there after the devastating 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion veterans recall WWII

LOS ANGELES, United States - Masao Takahashi (L) and James Ogawa, who fought in World War II as members of the U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion comprised almost exclusively of Japanese Americans, share their memories in Torrance, California, on Dec. 1, 2014. Americans of Japanese ancestry had no other choice but to fight to prove their loyalty to the United States, said Takahashi.

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Japanese-Americans recall 'inter-camp' baseball league

LOS ANGELES, United States - Former detainees at Japanese-American internment camps in the United States during World War II who were involved in the 1944 baseball games among teams from the internment camps -- George Iseri, Tetsuo Furukawa, Kenso Zenimura and Ernie Inoue (from R) -- are reunited in 2014.

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Japanese-American films quake-hit region's people

WASHINGTON, United States - Dianne Fukami, a third-generation Japanese-American, speaks in an interview in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2014. She said her documentary film "Stories from Tohoku" depicting the resilience of people in the northeastern Japan region, hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, evokes the image of camps in which her parents and other Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II.

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Japanese Americans tell teens of wartime internment

WASHINGTON, United States - Mary Murakami (C), 87, and Terry Shima (L), 91, two elderly Japanese Americans, meet Japanese teenagers in Washington on July 31, 2014, to tell them about the internment and discrimination U.S. citizens of Japanese descent suffered during and after World War II.

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Lawsuit seeks removal of comfort women statue

LOS ANGELES, United States - File photo taken in July 2013 shows the unveiling ceremony for a bronze statue of a girl, a memorial for women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese military, at Glendale Central Park near Los Angeles. Two Japanese-Americans and a non-profit educational group filed a lawsuit on Feb. 20, 2014, against the Southern California city of Glendale and the city's manager for erecting the memorial in the public park.

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Civil Liberties Act

WASHINGTON, United States - Visitors view the original text of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act on display at the National Archives in Washington in July 2013. The display marked the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the U.S. act to compensate Japanese-Americans interned during World War II.

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Japanese American honored for efforts on bilateral ties

WASHINGTON, United States - Floyd Mori, a retired Japanese American politician, speaks on March 14, 2013 during a ceremony at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Washington after being decorated by Japan for his decades-long contributions to deepening the Japan-U.S. relations. The Japanese government last autumn gave Mori the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, in recognition of his contributions to improving the status of Japanese Americans and promoting Japanese culture in the United States, as well as strengthening economic relations between the two countries.

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L.A. County repeals 1942 support for Japanese American internment

LOS ANGELES, United States - Actor George Takei testifies at a Los Angeles County board of supervisors meeting on June 6, 2012, before the board voted to revoke its WWII support for the internment of Japanese Americans. Claiming that it was difficult "if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens," in 1942 the board recommended that the U.S. federal government remove the county's 37,000 Japanese Americans, including Takei and his family, to internment camps.

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Japanese American posthumously honored

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows Susan Carnahan, the widow of Jay Hirabayashi who defied the internment order for Japanese Americans during World War II, at the White House on May 29, 2012, when an award presentation ceremony was held for Hirabayashi, who died in January at age 93. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the courage of Hirabayashi as he posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award.

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Japanese American posthumously honored

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama (R) takes the hand of Susan Carnahan, the widow of Jay Hirabayashi who defied the internment order for Japanese Americans during World War II, at the White House on May 29, 2012, when an award presentation ceremony was held for Hirabayashi, who died in January at age 93. Obama hailed the courage of Hirabayashi as he posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award.

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Japanese American posthumously honored

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows Jay Hirabayashi, the 65-year-old son of the late Gordon Hirabayashi who defied the internment order for Japanese Americans during World War II, at the White House on May 29, 2012, when an award presentation ceremony was held for Hirabayashi, who died in January at age 93. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed the courage of Hirabayashi as he posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award.

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Japanese-Americans WWII internment

LOS ANGELES, United States - Actor George Takei (L) and Norman Mineta, former U.S. transportation secretary, are pictured in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2012, after announcing the launch of the Remembrance Project, a website to allow the sharing of stories about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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Remembering civil rights activist

SEATTLE, United States - Jay Hirabayashi (2nd from R), son of civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi, Judge Mary Schroeder (2nd from L) and other people associated with the late Hirabayashi, who fought the United States' internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, attend an event to commemorate his activities on Feb. 11, 2012, in Seattle. Gordon Hirabayashi, who was jailed for violating the curfew and internment orders, appealed his conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. Decades later in 1987, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion authored by Schroeder, overturned his conviction after he reopened his case in 1983.

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Heart Mountain wartime internment museum

HEART MOUNTAIN, United States - Norman Mineta (far L), a former U.S. secretary of transportation, looks on as his fellow former internees cut a barbed wire ''ribbon'' during an opening ceremony for the Interpretive Learning Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, on Aug. 20, 2011. The facility tells the history of more than 14,000 Japanese-Americans who were forced to live at the camp during World War II.

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Collecting donations in ballpark

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Members of a nonprofit group of Japanese Americans collect donations for people afflicted by the March 11, 2011, massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan in AT&T Park in San Francisco on March 28.

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Exchange center opens at Yokosuka U.S. base

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Capt. Daniel Weed (L), head of the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, and Mayor Yuto Yoshida cut the tape to mark the opening of a cultural exchange center at the base Nov. 18, 2009. The center, which will host events organized both by Japanese and Americans, is the first facility in a U.S. military base in Japan to allow free access by the general public.

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Emperor, Empress arrive in Hawaii from Canada

HONOLULU, United States - Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (2nd from R) shake hands with Japanese-Americans at Kapiolani Park in Honolulu on July 14. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in chemistry

FALMOUTH, United States - Osamu Shimomura of Japan, professor emeritus at Boston University Medical School, speaks to reporters at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on Oct. 8 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien of the United States.

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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in chemistry

FALMOUTH, United States - Osamu Shimomura of Japan, professor emeritus at Boston University Medical School, speaks to reporters at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on Oct. 8 after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien of the United States.

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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel Prize in chemistry

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the green fluorescent protein, GFP, presented by Nagoya University in Nagoya on Oct. 8. Scientists Osamu Shimomura of Japan and Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien of the United States have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery and development of the GFP.

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Asian American acting pioneer Mako dies at 72

LOS ANGELES, United States - Mako Iwamatsu (photo), the Japanese-American acting pioneer who opened the doors for Asian Americans to Hollywood, died of esophageal cancer at his home in southern California on July 21, the Los Angeles Times reported on July 23. He was 72.

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Japanese-American WWII internees receive high school diplomas

LOS ANGELES, United States - A group of Japanese-Americans the U.S. government detained during World War II receive high school diplomas on Aug. 21 in a graduation ceremony at Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

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'Art bomb' intended to get N.Y. to remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki

NEW YORK, United States - Organizers of the Pikadon project, conceived by Japanese illustrator Seitaro Kuroda, are using artwork as a statement to creatively engage New Yorkers to reflect upon the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago. ''We are going to drop an art bomb on New York,'' said Taku Nishimae, the project's New York manager, who is coordinating the citywide effort to educate Americans about the dangers that exist with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

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Visitors center opens at former U.S. camp for Japanese Americans

MANZANAR, United States - An opening ceremony was held April 24 for a visitors' center built at the former Manzanar War Relocation Center in central California to mark the history of internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. More than 1,000 people including Japanese Americans who had been forced to live in the internment camp, attended the ceremony for the opening of the Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center.

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(3)Abductees' relatives arrive in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, United States - Shigeru Yokota (L) shows pictures of his daughter Megumi, who North Korea said was abducted to the country and committed suicide in 1993, at a news conference in Los Angeles on April 16. Yokota and three other family members of Japanese abducted to North Korea are visiting Los Angeles to lobby Americans for support.

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Joint memorial service for WWII victims held on Iwojima

IWOJIMA, Japan - About 400 people, including Japanese and U.S. veterans, attend a Japan-U.S. memorial service at a cenotaph on Iwojima Island, about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo, on March 14 for those who died in the fierce fighting on the Japanese island during World War II. About 49,000 Japanese and Americans lost their lives in what was one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

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Japanese in Washington run ad to stress unity with Americans

WASHINGTON, United States - The Sept. 26 edition of the Washington Post carries a full-page advertisement by Japanese residents in the Washington area. The ad offers condolences to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and expresses their solidarity with the American people in the fight against terrorism.

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(1)Japanese chemist Shirakawa receives Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa smiles as he holds a certificate and a medal for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry after the award-giving ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. Shirakawa, 64, won the prize, along with two Americans, Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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(2)Japanese chemist Shirakawa awarded Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa (L), joint winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, shakes hands with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf (R) in Stockholm on Dec. 10. King Gustaf presented the award to Shirakawa, 64, along with two Americans, Alan Heeger, 64, and Alan MacDiarmid, 73, for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.

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Austrian President Klestil speaks at memorial service

SALZBURG, Austria - Austrian President Thomas Klestil delivers a eulogy during a memorial service at a Salzburg cathedral Nov. 17 for the 155 victims of the Nov. 11 mountain-train fire. The 155 were killed in the blaze inside a 3.2-kilometer funicular tunnel through the 3,203-meter Mt. Kitzsteinhorn. The victims include 92 Austrians, 37 Germans, 10 Japanese, eight Americans and four Slovenians.

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Memorial service held for victims of Austria train fire

SALZBURG, Austria - Japanese mourners cry at a memorial service Nov. 17 for the 155 victims of the Nov. 11 mountain-train fire. The service was held at a Salzburg cathedral and drew victims' relatives and government dignitaries. The 155 were killed in the blaze inside a 3.2-kilometer funicular tunnel through the 3,203-meter Mt. Kitzsteinhorn. They include 92 Austrians, 37 Germans, 10 Japanese, eight Americans and four Slovenians.

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War memorial dedicated to honor Japanese-Americans

WASHINGTON, United States - A memorial built near the U.S. Capitol in honor of the sacrifices made by Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II is dedicated in a ceremony in Washington D.C. on Nov. 9. The memorial features a granite wall inscribed with a brief history of Japanese immigrants, cherry trees and a sculpture of two bronze Japanese cranes entwined in barbed wire that are trying to break free.

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Chinese seek compensation from Japanese companies in U.S.

BEIJING, China - Plaintiffs in a suit filed in a Los Angeles court demanding compensation from the Mitsui and Mitsubishi group companies talk to reporters Aug. 23 at a hotel in Beijing. A total of nine plaintiffs, five Chinese nationals and four Chinese Americans, are seeking compensation on behalf of all Chinese forced to work in Japanese factories and mines during World War II. The suit is the first time Chinese nationals living in China have sued Japanese companies in connection with the alleged forced labor.

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Ground broken at memorial honoring Japanese-Americans

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese-Americans from all over the United States gather in Washington on Oct. 22 at a ceremony to break ground on a new memorial in honor of the loyalty and sacrifice made by Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

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Japanese American National Museum opens new pavilion

The Japanese American National Museum opens a new pavilion (shown) in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles on Jan. 22. The pavilion contains some 60,000 items on the history of Japanese-Americans, including the barracks of a World War II internment camp from Wyoming.

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List of over 120,000 Japanese American internment detainees completed

Photo taken on Aug. 27, 2022, shows a memorial monument at the former site of the Manzanar internment camp in Manzanar, California. A roster listing over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II after being considered "enemy aliens" in the United States has been completed 80 years after the signing of an Executive Order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, two months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, which authorized the U.S. military to evict residents in specific areas.

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List of over 120,000 Japanese American internment detainees completed

People on Sept. 24, 2022, look at a roster listing over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II after being considered "enemy aliens" in the United States. The list was completed 80 years after the signing of an Executive Order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, two months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, which authorized the U.S. military to evict residents in specific areas.

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List of over 120,000 Japanese American internment detainees completed

People attend a ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Sept. 24, 2022, to mark the completion of a roster listing over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II after being considered "enemy aliens" in the United States. The year 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of an Executive Order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, two months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, which authorized the U.S. military to evict residents in specific areas.

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Museum focused on wartime relocation of Japanese Americans

The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, which provides an overview of the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans, is pictured in Powell, Wyoming, on Aug. 29, 2021. The museum is located at the site of a former World War II Japanese American relocation camp.

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Museum focused on wartime relocation of Japanese Americans

The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, which provides an overview of the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans, is pictured in Powell, Wyoming, on Aug. 29, 2021. The museum is located at the site of a former World War II Japanese American relocation camp.

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Joint memorial service for WWII victims held on Iwojima

IWOJIMA, Japan - About 400 people, including Japanese and U.S. veterans, attend a Japan-U.S. memorial service at a cenotaph on Iwojima Island, about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo, on March 14 for those who died in the fierce fighting on the Japanese island during World War II. About 49,000 Japanese and Americans lost their lives in what was one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

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Japanese American National Museum opens new pavilion

The Japanese American National Museum opens a new pavilion (shown) in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles on Jan. 22. The pavilion contains some 60,000 items on the history of Japanese-Americans, including the barracks of a World War II internment camp from Wyoming. ==Kyodo

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1941 Daily Herald Battle for Moscow

1941 front page Daily Herald Battle for Moscow. Roosevelt calls on Americans to 'Make full sacrifices' and Japanese Army threaten Burma Road Date: 7th November 1941