Order 9066

July 2, 2018

Chapter 8: Seeking Redress

Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two demand that the federal government take account of their suffering and make reparations.

June 25, 2018

At the end of 1944, the U.S. government lifted the order barring people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Many people freed from camp faced racism and poverty as they tried to rebuild their lives. Some found that leaving camp was even harder than being sent there.

June 18, 2018

Childhood at Heart Mountain

This is a bonus episode of the podcast Order 9066.

June 11, 2018

Chapter 6: Resistance

In this chapter: the Japanese Americans who protested their incarceration and defied the pressure to prove their patriotism.

June 4, 2018

Objects of Incarceration

This is a bonus episode of the podcast Order 9066.

May 28, 2018

Chapter 5: Fighting for Freedom

More than 33,000 Japanese American men and women served in World War II. They fought as soldiers in Europe, and as translators in the Pacific.

April 3, 2018

Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do

By the fall of 1942, most people of Japanese ancestry had been transferred to one of 10 incarceration camps run by the War Relocation Authority. It was a time to persevere in the face of the unendurable, and to do so with dignity. The Japanese term for that is Gaman.

March 26, 2018

Music on Heart Mountain

This is a bonus episode of the podcast Order 9066.

March 19, 2018

Chapter 3: Prison Cities

In the first months of incarceration, Japanese Americans were hit with the humiliating conditions of camp life. The U.S. government denied that people of Japanese ancestry living in the "assembly centers" were prisoners, but the first summer in these camps proved otherwise.

March 12, 2018

Songs of Incarceration

This is a bonus episode of the podcast Order 9066.

March 5, 2018

Chapter 2: The Order

After Pearl Harbor, pressure grew to forcibly relocate all persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific coast. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

February 26, 2018

Sab Shimono Remembers 'Camp'

This is a bonus episode of the podcast Order 9066.

February 19, 2018

Chapter 1: The Roundup

Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Hours later, the FBI began rounding up people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. This episode explores the history of anti-Asian prejudice in the United States that laid the groundwork for an assault on Japanese American communities after Pearl Harbor. Narrated by veteran actor Sab Shimono.