A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

A new traveling exhibit tells the story of Japanese American soldiers who fought for the U.S. in World War II, even as their families were incarcerated as enemies of the state.

Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 ...

On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...

During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific. In May 1944, USS England hunted and eliminated multiple Japanese ...

In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS ...

Frank Emi was one of seven resistance leaders held in internment camps who were tried and convicted of draft evasion in October 1944. (Damian Dovarganes/AP) In the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today. Talk about an ...

Machine generated contents note: 1 Setting the Stage 1 -- 2 Peruvian Hostility toward the Japanese 21 -- 3 The Program Begins to Take Shape 35 -- 4 Diplomatic Machinations 41 -- 5 Attack on Peruvian ...

A new traveling exhibit tells the story of Japanese American soldiers who fought in World War II, even as their families were incarcerated as enemies of the state.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in ...