Japanese Internment

The Lava Ridge Wind Project, a proposed large-scale wind farm in southern Idaho, faces yet another challenge as the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation withdraws from the process.

Amache, a former Japanese incarceration camp in Colorado, is now officially part of the National Park system. Many survivors and descendants are excited about the news.

The Idaho Center for the Book sat down to talk about a book about World War II and Japanese Americans.

From 1942 to 1945, the family of Barbara Yoshida Berthiaume was incarcerated in the Minidoka Japanese internment camp in Eastern Idaho. But she didn’t learn about this dark chapter in her family’s history until she was in her senior year at Kuna High.

People gather at the Minidoka National Historic Site to reflect on the incarceration of 13,000 Japanese Americans in southern Idaho during World War II .

Idaho Matters takes a look at the life of Toshio Mori, an early Japanese American fiction writer, and his legacy.

The process of getting Amache under the National Park Service umbrella involved years of effort. It means more funding for preservation in the short term. But no matter who administers the site, everyone involved hopes the survivors – and their stories – stay front and center.

It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors, and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history there.

The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is something many don’t know about. The descendants of those imprisoned at Amache are sharing their family stories and helping to shed light on this dark period in history.

The history of Japanese internment in the United States during WWII and the Minidoka prison camp in Idaho.