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In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ensure "good behavior" on the part of Japan.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is displaying a unique, historic flag for a limited time in honor of the Fourth of July. The United States flag was originally flown in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Minoru Yasui was instrumental in ...

This past weekend at the WrestleCon Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow in Las Vegas, two icons from the world of combat sports, Butterbean and Minoru Suzuki, faced off in a wrestling match that was as ...

Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Oregon’s law school. He was working as a lawyer in Portland when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive ...

Cori Jackamore, MYCVA recipient, from left; Katy Anderson, executive director of Denver Public Library Friends Foundation and Michelle Jeske, city librarian The first Denver Public Library was ...

411 NW Flanders St., Suite 100, 503-224-1458, jamo.org. 10 am–4 pm Wednesday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm Sunday. Adults $8, seniors $6, students $5, children 11 and under free. On a Wednesday afternoon, Old ...

This essay first appeared in the newsletter of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and is republished here with permission. As a Japanese American, I was born into a community that lost ...

Only five years after graduating from Lewis & Clark Law School, Peggy Nagae received a phone call from Minoru “Min” Yasui, a lawyer and civil rights activist she deeply respected. Yasui wanted to ...