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Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 75 years ago on Feb. 19, 1942, resulted in more than 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry being evicted from their homes ...
Ienaga, Saburō. The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II, 1931-1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978). Iriye, Akira. The Origins of the Second World War in ...
Naomi Hirahara didn’t shy away from “airing the dirty laundry” of 1940s Japanese internment camps and the migration to Chicago in her book, “Clark and Division,” and she attracted hundreds of area ...
The book weighs 25 pounds and is more than 1,000 pages long. It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible. Instead of the word of God, it contains names — 125,284 names. A few are living. Most are ...
In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II. By Richard Sandomir Seiichi Morimura, who ...
With both Russia and Japan increasingly wary of Chinese power in the Asia-Pacific, four sparsely populated outposts at the edge of the Sea of Okhotsk remain in many ways the biggest impediment to a ...
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