The field was at Manzanar, one of 10 camps where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans — the vast majority U.S. citizens born and raised in this country — were imprisoned during World War II.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

After the U.S. declared war on Japan, it incarcerated people of Japanese ancestry at 26 camps, including Manzanar. Two thirds of the incarcerated were born and raised in the U.S.

The baseball games were held at Manzanar, one of 10 Japanese American concentration camps erected by the U.S. government during World War II.

This is the repeated refrain in the first chapter of Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp by Tracy Slater.

As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in ...

On Nov. 24, 1945, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) closed Manzanar and internees could choose to relocate to a city away from the West Coast to look for work. Motoike went to Chicago and lived with ...

When the incarceration camps closed after the last internees left, the U.S. government tore down Manzanar’s barracks, recreation buildings, schools, guard towers and baseball fields. Dan Kwong ...

Japanese Americans returned to Manzanar National Historic Site over the weekend for a landmark event — the first baseball games played there since World War II. The site is where the former Manzanar ...

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII. MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed ...