Rachel Chang is a travel and pop culture journalist who contributes to Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, and more. A piece of Japanese history is now a part of Southern ...
You know the date — Dec. 7 — and what happened then, and what happened thereafter, to the United States and to the world. But what was life like on Dec. 6, 1941, and in the years before then, closer ...
California's 1913 Alien Land Law barred Japanese immigrants, deemed "aliens ineligible for citizenship," from owning land. The law was driven by racial animosity and economic fears, despite Japanese ...
Dorothea Lange, “Manzanar, California, Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration” (July 3, 1942). The area was subject to extreme ...
California was once a hotbed of Japanese wine producers, until 20th-century legislation boxed them out. Over a hundred years later, a comeback is underway. Shana Clarke is a freelance journalist, ...