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RMCWBWJ4–Interned Japanese American, Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, supervises fellow internees working at sewing machines at
RMT9510N–Entitled: 'Entrance to Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RMB42N0D–events, Second World War / WW II, USA, internment of Japanese people, arrival at a camp, early 1942,
RMP8YKJ9–Japanese-American Farm Workers outside their Tent, Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
![[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — Japanese women delousing each other at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BN0H17/1945-japan-wwii-internment-camp-saipan-japanese-women-delousing-each-other-at-wwii-susupe-internment-camp-in-saipan-ca-1945-showa-20-the-camp-was-opened-in-1944-showa-19-to-house-13000-japanese-civilians-and-5000-chamorros-kakanas-and-koreans-it-was-closed-on-july-4-1946-showa-21-the-us-capture-of-the-northern-marianas-in-july-1944-resulted-in-the-first-us-occupation-of-japanese-territory-20th-century-gelatin-silver-print-2BN0H17.jpg "[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — Japanese women delousing each other at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print. Stock Photo")
RM2BN0H17–[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — Japanese women delousing each other at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print.
RMEPN34P–A historical marker is mounted in front of a former sentry post at Manzanar, a World War II relocation camp where more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated between 1942-45 at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in remote Owens Valley in Inyo County, California, USA. Surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers, Manzanar was the first of 10 wartime internment camps established in the United States for Americans of Japanese ancestry. The abandoned camp is now a National Historic Site and welcomes visitors.
![[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — An underfed boy at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BN0H19/1945-japan-wwii-internment-camp-saipan-an-underfed-boy-at-wwii-susupe-internment-camp-in-saipan-ca-1945-showa-20-the-camp-was-opened-in-1944-showa-19-to-house-13000-japanese-civilians-and-5000-chamorros-kakanas-and-koreans-it-was-closed-on-july-4-1946-showa-21-the-us-capture-of-the-northern-marianas-in-july-1944-resulted-in-the-first-us-occupation-of-japanese-territory-20th-century-gelatin-silver-print-2BN0H19.jpg "[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — An underfed boy at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print. Stock Photo")
RM2BN0H19–[ 1945 Japan - WWII Internment Camp, Saipan ] — An underfed boy at WWII Susupe Internment Camp (ススッペキャンプ) in Saipan, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). The camp was opened in 1944 (Showa 19) to house 13.000 Japanese civilians and 5.000 Chamorros, Kakanas and Koreans. It was closed on July 4, 1946 (Showa 21). The US capture of the Northern Marianas in July 1944 resulted in the first US occupation of Japanese territory. 20th century gelatin silver print.
RM2FWMFKC–USA World War Two WWII An unidentified navy veteran of Japanese ancestry reports to the assembly center for processing
![[ 1940s Japan - WWII Camp, Okinawa ] — Japanese women doing the laundry at a WWII Internment Camp in Okinawa, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). 20th century vintage gelatin silver print. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2C0CRKW/1940s-japan-wwii-camp-okinawa-japanese-women-doing-the-laundry-at-a-wwii-internment-camp-in-okinawa-ca-1945-showa-20-20th-century-vintage-gelatin-silver-print-2C0CRKW.jpg "[ 1940s Japan - WWII Camp, Okinawa ] — Japanese women doing the laundry at a WWII Internment Camp in Okinawa, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). 20th century vintage gelatin silver print. Stock Photo")
RM2C0CRKW–[ 1940s Japan - WWII Camp, Okinawa ] — Japanese women doing the laundry at a WWII Internment Camp in Okinawa, ca. 1945 (Showa 20). 20th century vintage gelatin silver print.
RMCP4A7M–Japanese Internment. Exclusion order posted at First and Front Streets in San Francisco directing removal of persons of
RM2RH1TB4–Dutch East Indies Campaign, December 1941 – March 1942. Following the fall of the Dutch East Indies to the invading Imperial Japanese Sixteenth Army, Governor-General Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (left) and Lieutenant-General ter Poorten are taken prisoner and escorted into a Japanese internment camp in Batavia, March 1942.
RFTW846A–Red Truck at Manzanar. Japenese Internment Camp Eastern Sierra Neveda Mountains, California
RM2RTYD5E–Owens Valley, California 1943 View from a guard tower of the Manzanar Relocation Center, one of the smaller Internment camps for Japanese-Americans. Photograph shows the western side of the grounds with the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At its peak, Manzanar held around 10,000 inmates, with the first inmates arriving in 1942, and the last leaving in 1945. Today, it is preserved as a National Historic Site. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
RMHP08R4–Old, abandoned, wooden guard tower, at the World War II Manzanar Japanese internment camp in the Mojave Desert, Southern California.
RFM4D5R7–The rubble of the historical monument topaz internment camp where japanese americans were imprisoned during the war,
RM2RBTBRP–Shanghai, China: September, 1945 Isabelle Alcone of San Francisco washes clothes at the Japanese Chapei Internment Camp in China where she and about 250 Americans were held during the war years.
RMCWBWHM–Japanese American women, laundering their families' clothes in metal washtubs during their three month incarceration at
RMT950XM–Entitled: 'Members of the Japanese Independent congregational church attending Easter services prior to evacuation' Oakland, California. The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
RMP8YKJ8–Japanese-American Farm Worker's Family outside near their Tent, Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
![Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D5FPKM/japanese-american-camp-war-emergency-relocation-tule-lake-relocation-D5FPKM.jpg "Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo")
RMD5FPKM–Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
RMA7R2EA–Rohwer Japanese internment camp in Arkansas from World War II 2 Two where people were imprisoned during 1940's because of their Asian race
RM2RTY771–San Francisco, California April 1942 Japanese-American Shizuko Ina standing behind others waiting to be assigned a 'family number' before being removed from their homes and incarcerated in a detention facility at Tanforan Racetrack. She was later moved with her husband, Itaru Ina to a concentration camp in Topaz, Utah, and then to Tule Lake Segregation Center, near Newell in Northern California. The family was separated in July 1945 when Itaru was transferred to Fort Lincoln, a Department of Justice camp for 'enemy aliens' in Bismarck, North Dakota, and reunited in April 1946 at Crystal
RMBTKK9H–Multiple generations of Japanese Americans at meal time in the Manzanar Internment Camp barracks dining area.
RM2RTYCDY–Owens Valley, California 1943 Editor Roy Takeno reading a copy of the Manzanar Free Press in front of the newspaper office at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley, California. The Manzanar Free Press was first launched in April of 1942 by ex-journalists in what eventually became a relocation center for Japanese-Americans. The first issue, printed on July 22, 1942, stated: “We want to repeat again that the Free Press belongs to the people of Manzanar, that, instead of being merely the mouthpiece of the administration, it strives to express the opinions of the evacuees in the s
RM2J3NE43–Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center.
RMFB6AYH–SALINAS TEMPORARY DETENTION CENTER This monument is dedicated to the 3,586 Monterey Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry,
RM2A8BT36–Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are being registered upon first arrival at this War Relocation Authority center 5/10/1942
RMBHEHPE–Free French Memorial Headstone at the foot of a general view (cenotaph and 1940s graves) of Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong
RMHP08R7–Old, abandoned, wooden guard tower, at the World War II Manzanar Japanese internment camp in the Mojave Desert, Southern California.
RM2A8BT22–Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, are tied up for the duration at Terminal Island in Los Angeles harbor 4/7/1942
RMCWBYD1–Japanese-Americans at the Santa Anita Assembly Center where family groups identify their baggage prior to departure to the
RMT9510C–Entitled: 'School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RM2A8BT3J–Poston, Arizona. Highway leading to this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the Colorado River Indian Reservation 4/9/1942
RMP8YKJE–Japanese-American Farm Workers Leaving Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp to Work in Fields, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
![Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D5FPKE/japanese-american-camp-war-emergency-evacuation-tule-lake-relocation-D5FPKE.jpg "Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo")
RMD5FPKE–Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
RMA7R2E7–Rohwer Japanese internment camp in Arkansas from World War II 2 Two where people were imprisoned during 1940's because of their Asian race
RMBTK3P3–Japanese-American children waving from a train window as it leaves Seattle to take them to an internment camp for the duration of World War II. March 1942.
RM2J3NE81–Japanese relocation, California. Memorial Day services at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. American Legion members and Boy Scouts participated in the services.
RMBHEHJX–A line of 1940s headstones, in front of older graves, in the garden landscape of Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong, China
RMHP08RE–Old, abandoned, wooden guard tower, at the World War II Manzanar Japanese internment camp in the Mojave Desert, Southern California.
RMCWBYD9–Young Japanese-Americans dancing at the Fresno, California, Assembly Center in 1942. Assembly centers were the initial
RMT9510H–Entitled: 'Monument in cemetery, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RM2A8BT3R–Light poles and wiring for electric lighting are being installed at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry 5/6/1942
RMP8YKJB–Japanese-American Farm Workers Leaving Farm Security Administration (FSA)Mobile Camp to Work in Fields, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
![Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D5FY1G/japanese-american-camp-war-emergency-evacuation-tule-lake-relocation-D5FY1G.jpg "Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo")
RMD5FY1G–Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
RMA7R2ED–Rohwer Japanese internment camp in Arkansas from World War II 2 Two where people were imprisoned during 1940's because of their Asian race
RMCP4A7T–Japanese-American internee. Little child being evacuated with his parents to Owens Valley Internment Camp Manzanar over 200
RME1CRKR–Granada War Relocation Center, the official name of a internment camp for Japanese Americans. During World War 2, the Colorado
RM2J3NE46–Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park Assembly Center at Arcadia, California, for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
RMBHEHHB–Grassy slope with a line of early 1940s military grave headstones, Stanley Military Cemetery, Stanley, Hong Kong, China
RMHP08RB–Old, abandoned, wooden guard tower, at the World War II Manzanar Japanese internment camp in the Mojave Desert, Southern California.
RMCWAJ7E–Japanese-American children waving from a train window as it leaves Seattle to take them to an internment camp for the duration
RMT950XK–Entitled: 'Shop window of Asahi Dye Works with sign reading: 'Closing, we won't take it to Owens Valley for U', Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
RM2A8BRXR–Light poles and wiring for electric lighting are being installed at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry 5/6/1942
RMP8YKJA–Farmer's Truck at Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp to Pick up Japanese-American Farm Workers Living there, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
![Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D5FPKC/japanese-american-camp-war-emergency-evacuation-tule-lake-relocation-D5FPKC.jpg "Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC) Stock Photo")
RMD5FPKC–Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
RME1CRKF–Japanese-American veteran, dressed in his WW2 uniform, reports for his World War 2 internment. Santa Anita Park assembly,
RM2J3NE4A–Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Mount Whitney, highest peak in the United States, is in the background.
RMCWC9EW–Japanese Internment. Exclusion order posted at First and Front Streets in San Francisco directing removal of persons of
RMT950XC–Entitled: 'Newspaper headline. Oakland, California, February 1942.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RM2A8BT38–Los Angeles, California. Celery section of central produce market, Los Angeles operated almost exclusively, before evacuation, by residents of Japanese ancestry 4/11/1942
RMP8YKJK–Japanese-American Farm Workers Working in Sugar Beet Field, Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
RME1CRKK–Japanese-American family waiting for train to take them to Manzanar internment camp. World War 2, April 1942 photo by Russell
RM2J3NE74–Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Miss Naito works in an office at the center.
RMCWBYDE–Multiple generations of Japanese Americans at meal time in the Manzanar Internment Camp barracks dining area.
RMT95107–Entitled: 'Relocation departure II, Manzanar Relocation Center.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RM2A8BRXY–Poston, Arizona. This bus, bringing evacuees of Japanese ancestry to the Colorado River Relocation center has become sand bound near its destination ca. 5/25/1942
RMP8YKJC–Japanese-American Farm Workers Getting Ready to Leave Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp to Work in Fields, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
RME1CRKW–Dust storm at Manzanar internment camp for Japanese Americans for during World War 2. California, July 3, 1942. Photo by
RM2J3NE7A–Japanese relocation, California. Maye Noma, behind the plate, and Tomi Nagao, at bat, in a practice game between members of the Chick-a-dee softball team, which was kept intact when the players were evacuated from Los Angeles to Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
RMBTKHWB–Japanese American children sit among their family's belongings as they wait for transportation to Owens Valley Assembly center for internment during World War II. Los Angeles, California, April 1942.
RMCWC9F1–Japanese-American internee. Little child being evacuated with his parents to Owens Valley Internment Camp Manzanar over 200
RMT95101–Entitled: 'Japanese waiting for registration at the Santa Anita reception center.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RM2A8BT0Y–Key Nishimura with announcer Chet Huntley of CBS in a nationwide broadcast at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry 5/26/1942
RMP8YKJG–Japanese-American Farm Workers Getting Ready to Leave Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp to Work in Fields, Nyssa, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
RM2A8BT25–Part of the fleet of fishing boats operated by residents of Japanese ancestry before they were evacuated to assembly centers. These boats are tied up at Terminal Island in Los Angeles harbor 4/7/1942
RM2A8BT3B–Parker, Arizona. Sheriff Jim Washum of Parker. A War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry is situated on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, near Parker 4/9/1942
RM2J3NE42–Japanese relocation, California. Newcomers at Santa Anita Park Assembly Center in Arcadia, California, receive vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever. Under direction of Dr. Norman Kobayshi and nurses who also are evacuees of Japanese ancestry, they pass through the hospital at a rate of 400 an hour. Evacuees are transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
RMBTKHT5–Japanese Americans at a train station as the U.S. Military supervises their transport to Owens Valley Assembly center for internment during World War II. Los Angeles, California, April 1942.
RMCWC0FK–San Francisco Examiner headline announcing internment of Japanese Americans during WW2. On February 19, 1942, Franklin D.
RMT95109–Entitled: 'Nursery, orphan infants, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.' The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps of 110,000-120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (62% of the internees were US citizens) ordered by President Roosevelt shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese-Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics.
RMP8YKJH–Japanese-American Female Farm Workers Washing Celery Sprouts for Planting, Farm Security Administration (FSA) Mobile Camp, Malheur County, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, July 1942
RM2A8BT3P–Parker, Arizona. Mrs. Ruby Snyder, Chemehuevi Indian states, 'I hear that the Japanese are wonderful farmers. I would like to go down to see how they grow things.' 4/10/1942
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