“Play ball,” the umpire hollered. The modest crowd roared. Little Tokyo Giants lead-off batter Dan Kwong stepped up to the plate. A gust of dry desert wind whipped up the loose sand across the infield ...

In February, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that led to the forced removal of some 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes. They were sent to live in rural ...

A new project is now putting the finishing touches on something that the site's managers hope will bring more healing: the rebuilding of Manzanar's baseball field. “The baseball field was a part of ...

MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita, who 80 years ...

To the editor: Thank you very much for the article, "'There's our family name': Sacred book honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII." I recently visited the Manzanar National Historic Site ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 2024 exhibition game at Manzanar, players – many of them descendants of internment camp detainees – donned custom 1940s-style ...

Manzanar, historic site of a camp where 10,000 Japanese Americans were illegally incarcerated during World War II, is remote for a reason — four hours by bus from San Francisco, and about six hours ...

Manzanar is remembered as a historic site, quiet and empty under the desert sky. But visitors and rangers alike report ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras sits Manzanar, the site of the World War II concentration camp where 11,070 Japanese Americans were incarcerated from March 1942 to November 1945. This ...

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New York, NY – June 6, 2022 – POV, America’s longest running documentary series, now celebrating its 35th anniversary season, exposes the legacy of colonization, racism, and environmental injustice in ...