A country slightly larger than the United Kingdom (about the size of California), Japan lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent. An archipelago, Japan consists of four main islands—Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū,...

Japanese Americans (日系アメリカ人, Nikkei Amerikajin?) are Americans of Japanese descent who trace their ancestry to the Japanese Archipelago, the Kurile Islands, or the Ryukyu Islands, and are residents and/or citizens of the United States....

As a Japanese American...* As a Japanese-American, the events of September 11th generate distinct and perhaps unique resonances. The many analogies to Pearl Harbor evoke not only the universal American shock, horror, and outrage at that surprise military attack, but summon other associations...

Regarding the letter from Werner Gruhl {"Smithsonian Amnesia," Nov. 11} concerning the Smithsonian's exhibit on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians published in 1982 found that the broad historical...

Justice Stephen Breyer on Saturday stressed the role of the Supreme Court in protecting civil liberties in an age of terrorism.At a public appearance in Brussels, Belgium, the justice said the high court made a mistake in World War II when it said the relocation...

The House on Tuesday approved a long-delayed plan to designate Bainbridge Island, Wash. _ where hundreds of Japanese-Americans were once forced from their homes on the way to prison camps during World War II _ as a national historic site.In March 1942, 227 Japanese-Americans were...

A history of Japanese immigration to the United States and how they established themselves economically, socially and through religion in their new home.