Videos

USC history lecturer Susan Kamei profiled 130 Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was a virtual event hosted by the Japanese Ame…

This program featured a panel of scholars talking about Japanese war brides and their children. They discussed the women’s lives in America and their legacies. It was part of a symposium co-…

Professor Greg Robinson discussed his book By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. The book examines the influences that led President Roosevelt to sign …

Bill Shishima gave a tour of a portion of a barracks from the World War II Heart Mountain Relocation Center that is on display in the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Mr. Sh…

A panel of Japanese-American Military Intelligence Service (MIS) veterans who fought in WWII and Korea talked about the contributions they made for the intelligence service. Because of the c…

Eric Muller talked about his book American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, published by University of North Carolina Press. In his book he examine…

Joanne Oppenheim talked about her book for young adults, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, publ…

Judge Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S Court of Appeals, gave the keynote address for a conference on the 60th anniversary of four Supreme Court cases challenging the curfew a…