Eighty-one years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066, which forcibly removed 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and incarcerated them across the West Coast, ...

Densho, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII, recently highlighted the work of photographer Dorothea Lange, whose photographs ...

Caitlin Oiye Coon works to save her own and thousands of families' stories. As a teenager, Caitlin Oiye Coon would hear stories from her grandmother Shizuko Kikuchi Oiye about what life was like for ...

The Japanese word 'densho' means "to pass on to future generations." The organization was founded in 1996 with a primary goal of collecting personal testimonies from Japanese Americans who were ...

History is stored mostly in books or behind glass enclosures, but an equally important part can be found in the memories of the people who lived it. Capturing the oral tradition of history is the ...

“A lot of my cultural background was probably taken away or hidden,” says Frank Kitamoto in a video interview recorded by Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. Like many Japanese Americans, ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — When a high school student decided to create a mural of a traditional Japanese garden near the Indian Creek Plaza for her senior project, she had no idea the painting would take on ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL)- You’ve heard of the Shoah foundations, haven’t you? They are organizations designed to record and preserve the memories of Holocaust survivors before those survivors pass away ...

CALDWELL — Densho is the Japanese word for legacy, so fittingly, the new Densho Garden in downtown Caldwell is a permanent fixture to honor generations of Japanese-Americans who settled in the ...