The Department of Justice ruled last week that Koreans need not register as enemy aliens. Austro-Hungarians and Hungarians are also exempt, but Koreans are a special case. About the only people who ...

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 ...

For as far back as he can remember, Russell Endo heard from relatives about his grandfather’s arrest in 1942, when an FBI agent took him from his home in Southern California under suspicion that he ...

Max Ebel fled his home in Nazi Germany after he was assaulted for refusing to join the Hitler Youth. Susumu Shimizu, a Japanese immigrant in Peru, helped run a successful family business in Lima.