“Remembering the history of internment of Japanese Americans” held 82 years after US Presidential Decree. During World War II, Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States were considered enemy aliens by an executive order signed by then-President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
Bainbridge Island in Western Washington State was the site of the first evacuation and Internment of 227 people, including Japanese Americans. President Biden released the following comment: ``We will remember the tragic legacy of the executive order by reaffirming the U.S. government's official apology to people of Japanese descent''