18-02-2017 22:00 via theartnewspaper.com

Two views from inside the US's Japanese internment camps

On 19 February, the US marks a dark 75th anniversary: on this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorising the internment of Japanese-Americans in government camps during the Second World War. The measure was executed amid a wave of anti-Japanese hysteria that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Around 120,000 Japanese-Americansmany of them citizenswere imprisoned.
This month, a travelling exhibition organised by the Nikkei National Museum
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