Artist Hisako Hibi often depicted the everyday experiences of young children, like her own, who were among the 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

After Executive Order 9066 was issued in 1942, the United States government incarcerated roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps through the end of World War II. Machiko Harada ...

After World War II, during which their family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Utah, they moved to New York City in 1945 so that Hibi Lee’s parents, Hisako and “George” Matsusaburo ...

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was a big deal at the time, and it is generally considered the first modern war. ... Its warships were state-of-the-art and built in England.

The show documents how art and design paralleled the Second Sino- Japanese War, World War II and, ultimately, the post-war years—a time of radical change marked by industrialization ...

A book recounts how precious works of art thousands of years old were taken to safety as Japan began its invasion of China in the 1930s — a part of ... 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...

In 1940, 19-year-old Clavell joined Britain's Royal Artillery to fight in World War II and was sent to Singapore to fight the Japanese advance across Asia. He never made it; his transport was sunk ...