Photographs below, right, and bottom of opposite page are from Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II (University of Washington Press, 1996), the memories and images of the U

Photograph from Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II (University of Washington Press, 1996), the memories and images of the U.S. detention camps to which 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were sent during World War II. The essay is by Gary Y. Okihiro (history) and the photographs are by Joan Myers.