The 1860 Japanese embassy inspired within the antebellum African American press an imagined solidarity that subverted American state hierarchies of 'civilization' and race. The bodies of the Japanese ...

The museum’s debut presentation was the long-running Common Ground: The Heart of Community, a chronological exhibition that profoundly retold Japanese-American history through personal accounts ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to apologize to families it imprisoned during World War II, Black politicians and civil ...

This article was adapted from a previous version published by Densho. From African American activists critical to the 1963 March on Washington to the Japanese American women among the 120,000 wrongly ...

So African Americans were only allowed on the south side. And Japanese were on the north side,” Langsden said. Historically, working the railroads and farming proved to be two major sources of ...

Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of ...

We walk through the history of the Japanese American community in San Diego and Imperial Counties through one family's story of migration and incarceration during World War II.