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internment

[in-turn-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɜrn mənt /




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The 1994 case about the internment of Japanese American citizens is still relevant today as the Supreme Court has failed to fully contend with its legacy.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

In 1942 he entered one of the government’s Japanese internment camps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

Her life had always been strenuous—field work, internment, more field work on top of housework—but during this period under Mrs. Shigemura’s tutelage she had learned to compose herself in the face of it.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Yes—I think it should have been repealed in that period when we were taking stock of the World War II internments.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2025

"The section that will be used is occupied by the dead from a century ago and will not affect any recent internments," FWC said.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024

Jay Tidmarsh, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, suggested the World War II internments as a possible comparable framework.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

This report was kept from the Supreme Court when it upheld the internments in 1944.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

The populace has not molested alien enemies, and their government has not indulged in wholesale internments of enemies’ subjects.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood


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