Japanese American Incarceration
Japanese American Incarceration: How It Happened Here
After years of government planning, a president’s executive order in February 1942 launched the U.S. policy of rounding up, forcibly relocating, and incarcerating some 120,000 Japanese Americans.
A Fish Tale
If Hollywood, freeways, the aerospace industry and water rights are lenses through which L.A. history can be viewed, then tuna is another. L.A.’s tuna story dates back more than 100 years and weaves together entrepreneurial vision, a global canning business, the relocation of East San Pedro’s Japanese American fishing community to internment camps, and today’s popularity of sushi. Andrew F. Smith was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch about his book “American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food,” a history of the tuna industry.
Minority Treatment
When Japanese-Americans returned to Los Angeles from internment camps in 1945, their struggles continued. Edward Whelan, S.J., president of then-Loyola University, did something about it.