During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States, operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly
Tatsuro Masuda, a Japanese American, unfurled this banner at "Wanto Sho-Kai", 401-403 Eighth Street at Franklin Street in Oakland, California, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Dorothea Lange took this photograph 13 March 1942.
A child is "Tagged for evacuation", Salinas, California, May 1942. Photo by Russell Lee.
A Japanese American shop closing, Asahi Dye Works, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The notice on the front is a reference to Manzanar, Owens Valley being the first and one of the largest Japanese American detention centers.
Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following
Japanese Day parade in Seattle, during the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition of 1909
Japanese American farmer in Mountain View, California.
Posted Japanese American Exclusion Order
Juneau High School valedictorian John Tanaka received his diploma at a special graduation ceremony at the school's gymnasium in Juneau, Alaska in April 1942 prior to his internment. He was unable to attend actual graduation the next month due to evacuation orders.