internment camp
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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
Taken to a Japanese internment camp at Sumatra, she and fellow internee Norah Chambers set up a vocal orchestra.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024
In the aftermath of Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, they were imprisoned in an incarceration camp — not an internment camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023
After the war, Miyamura met Terry Tsuchimori, a woman from a family who had been forced to live at the Poston internment camp in southwestern Arizona following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022
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
