THE influence of circumstance and environment in moulding human impulse and achievement has been so many times convincingly maintained, both before and since Taine applied the theory to literature, ...
OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — In October 1944, as American planes bombarded Japan and closed in on victory in World War II, a Japanese mother wrote a five-page letter to her son, a lieutenant fighting on Iwo ...
Tycoon (Japanese: Dai—Great; Kun—Noble One, or Prince) used by the latter Shoguns of the Tokugawa Line descended from leasu (Seventeenth Century) and up to the abdication of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, ...
DENVER (AP) - Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops - but only the ...
The Japanese American children who spent years in World War II internment camps were hopeful. Some thought racial discrimination would end after the war, they wrote in letters about their daily lives.
The powerful and heartbreaking film will be shown at the Smithsonian. — -- In a new film to be shown at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building over Memorial Day weekend, filmmaker Frank Chi ...
Many Times readers have taken issue with two letters in this week’s Travel section, which criticized a Nov. 27 article about National Park sites that address issues of race and ethnicity in America’s ...
Judy Hanazawa says the federal government sold her family's fishing boats and homes while her parents were in internment camps during the Second World War, but what hits hardest is seeing a ...
GREAT letter-writers, like other artists, must needs have the original birth-gift; but this gift, to ripen to complete fruition, requires certain fostering circumstances. Without these propelling ...