Japanese-American

Documentary shows wartime plight of...
Hiroyuki Matsumoto (Photo by Kazuo Yamamoto)
KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--When Hiroyuki Matsumoto won a Best of Hawaii prize at the Honolulu Film Awards festival this spring, he felt a sense of disappointment.
Sociologist who resisted internment dies in Canada
Gordon Hirabayashi, center, who was imprisoned on Mount Lemmon, in Tucson, Ariz., during WWll watches the Flag ceremony as the former prison camp site was renamed after Hirabayashi, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1999. (AP photo)
EDMONTON -- A sociologist who refused to be sent to internment camps that kept more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans captive during World War II has died in the Canadian city of ...
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