Essay: The overlooked story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii during World War II
In an article first published on The Conversation, OLIVIA TASEVSKI says the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the US during World War II…
Postcards: In World War II, Japanese Americans’ faith helped them survive their incarceration
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on the new ‘Sutra and Bible’ exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles which explores the role of religion in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II…
Postcards: Activists seek to preserve ‘sacred’ land Japanese immigrants acquired before California’s anti-immigrant land laws
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on efforts to preserve only surviving Japanese American properties that was acquired before California enacted the Alien Land Law in 1913 barring Asian immigrants from owning land…