RIO DE JANEIRO--The Japanese woman whose body was found next to a waterfall in Brazil’s Goias state died as a result of a blow to the head, probably from a blunt rock, according to the detective ...

ANCHIETA, Brazil--After more than 75 years, officials in the Brazilian state of San Paulo apologized for persecuting Japanese-Brazilian immigrants before and after the end of World War II.

Brazil joined the Allies in 1942 and cut diplomatic relations with Japan, after which the Brazilian government confiscated Japanese-owned properties and immigrants were not allowed to gather or ...

He was the country's first president of Japanese descent. Fujimori demonstrated an ability to reform the economy and dramatically improve security. Yet his heavy-handed political stance drew ...

Seventy-five years after the fact, the federal government’s incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during that war is seen as a shameful aberration in the U.S. victory over ...

Muriel Kitagawa, a young mother of Japanese descent, wrote to her brother Wes, a medical student at the University of Toronto. "We have been tempered for the anti-Japanese feeling these long years.