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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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Bush signs bill to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment camps

MANZANAR, United States - Photo shows a memorial hall opened in April 2004 in Manzanar, California, where about 10,000 people of Japanese descent had been forcefully kept during World War II. President George W. Bush signed into law on Dec. 21 a $38 million (about 4.5 billion yen) funding program to preserve such internment camps at 10 sites in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

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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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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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Memorial held at former Japanese-American internment camp

People pose for a photo in front of a cenotaph at Manzanar National Historic Site in Manzanar, California, on April 30, 2016, which commemorates the deaths of Japanese-Americans incarcerated there during World War II. Around 1,200 people, including relatives of the deceased, participated in a memorial ceremony at the site of the camp, one of several internment camps at which around 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated beginning in 1942. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial held at former Japanese-American internment camp

People take part in a memorial ceremony in front of a cenotaph at Manzanar National Historic Site in Manzanar, California, on April 30, 2016, which commemorates the deaths of Japanese-Americans incarcerated there during World War II. Around 1,200 people, including relatives of the deceased, participated in a memorial ceremony at the site of the camp, one of several internment camps at which around 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated beginning in 1942. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bush signs bill to preserve WWII Japanese-American internment ca

MANZANAR, United States - Photo shows a memorial hall opened in April 2004 in Manzanar, California, where about 10,000 people of Japanese descent had been forcefully kept during World War II. President George W. Bush signed into law on Dec. 21 a $38 million (about 4.5 billion yen) funding program to preserve such internment camps at 10 sites in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. (Kyodo)

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Internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California

People visit the site of a former internment camp in Manzanar, California, on April 27, 2019. In 1942, the U.S. government ordered more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps, including the Manzanar War Relocation Center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California

People visit a cenotaph at the site of a former internment camp in Manzanar, California, on April 27, 2019. In 1942, the U.S. government ordered more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps, including the Manzanar War Relocation Center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California

People attend a ceremony at the site of a former internment camp in Manzanar, California, on April 27, 2019. In 1942, the U.S. government ordered more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps, including the Manzanar War Relocation Center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Internment camp for Japanese-Americans in California

Japanese-American Warren Furutani speaks during a ceremony at the site of a former internment camp in Manzanar, California, on April 27, 2019. In 1942, the U.S. government ordered more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, including Furutani's parents, to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps, including the Manzanar War Relocation Center. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)