World War II

The 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is set to expire in June. Now, Congress — and Utah’s delegation — is grappling over whether to expand or merely extend the program.

The prison camp on an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp outside of Moab held 56 so-called troublemakers from other camps in 1943.

A gathering of Topaz camp survivors and descendants have come to the Utah desert to remember James Wakasa and the 140 other Japanese Americans who died here.

Eighty years ago, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was killed in a Japanese American internment camp in Utah. His story is one piece of Utah’s history with internment.

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.

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.

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The work “Lost Freedom: Japanese American Confinement in America” brings together the music of Kenji Bunch and the narration of actor George Takei, who spent his childhood in internment camps during World War II. With hate crimes against those of Asian descent making headlines, Bunch calls art and music “our last best hope for coming together.”

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Utah World War II veteran Dean Larson received the French Legion of Honor award Thursday at the Utah State Capitol. The Legion of Honor is France’s…