internment
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In 1942 he entered one of the government’s Japanese internment camps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
The demonstration was a protest against the policy of internment – imprisoning people without trial – which had been put in place following three years of violence.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
They’d been married at the Manzanar internment camp in a tar paper Buddhist chapel.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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