This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the p

Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarc

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

In December 1982, a congressionally created commission concluded that the incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II was the re

The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official