Japanese-American News

The National Park Service has scheduled a series of public "listening sessions" for next week to take comments about improving its grant program for preserving historic sites where thousands of Japanese Americans were held against their will during World War II.

Inside the Tivoli Theatre , a couple of hundred people sat in the dark, watching an oddball smattering of movies: a tottery, fuzzed-up video of a blues singer playing guitar, footage from the 1940s of Japanese-Americans being released from an Arkansas internment camp, a home movie of a woman sweeping the front steps of her wrecked house after ...

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts.

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Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:03 a.m. "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates" - Samuel Johnson.

Retired Army Col. Chris Keegan, a shoe salesman for a Cincinnati department store when drafted in 1941, helped lead the most highly decorated unit for its size and length of service during combat in World War II.

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Many Korean travel agencies include visits to indoor shooting ranges on the itinerary of Japanese tourists.

Ten people died and six were injured in a fire at an indoor shooting range in the South Korean port city of Busan on Saturday, according to local police.

Western coverage of the murder of Lindsay Hawker has peddled an ugly strand of uninformed stereotyping Tatsuya Ichihashi, the prime suspect in the murder of Lindsay Hawker, has been caught .

The Radio Equalizer blog is hot on the trail of left-wing talk radio bringing out the weirdest scenarios to shift the blame for the Fort Hood shooting onto the Islamophobic prejudice of the American people.

Japan ranks 31st out of 35 countries in terms of the percentage of female board of directors, falling below Jordan, Oman and Kuwait, a U.S.-based nonprofit group said Tuesday.

November 09, 2009, 3:00AM To the Editor: I was not surprised when I heard about the killing of innocent people at Fort Hood, Texas, by a Muslim soldier.

By Chris Stephen THE KILLING of the Fort Hood soldiers by Major Nidal Hasan has set people in America's six-million strong Muslim community on edge, fearing a possible backlash against them.

Sgt. Gene Kumagai in the streets of Nagoya, Japan in November, 1945, several months after the city had been bombed.

It's considered a dark chapter in American history. More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during World War II.

Forget the salarymen, Japan's new 'herbivore' generation of males believe that life is far more important than work Yasuo Takeuchi makes an improbable radical.

The front page of the April 10, 1942 issue of the San Diego State College student newspaper contained a story about the school's Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps.

World champion ironman Shannon Eckstein is on his way to Tokyo, spearheading a promotion to entice more young Japanese women to visit Australia.

For three days in October 1944, a Japanese-American military unit fought in dense woods, heavy fog and freezing temperatures in the mountains of France, answering the prayers of an American battalion pinned down by German forces.