Rina Nakano speaks with Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, a World War II internment camp survivor who wound up serving in the United States Army after resisting a pervious draft. He tells his important life story on Japanese American Day of Remembrance as a signal to continue fighting in the face of adversity.

Communities across the country observed the Day of Remembrance on Wednesday - a day when many take time to reflect. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced incarceration of more than 120,

By the time she was seven years old, Shelly Weiner had lived in a ghetto, lost a majority of her loved ones, been struck by shrapnel and hid underground for 28 months. The Holocaust survivor spoke to a packed room of Wake Forest University students about her early childhood experiences hiding from the Nazi regime.

Every year on February 19, 99-year-old Takashi Hoshizaki shares his family's story of when they were forced into internment in Wyoming.

Residents of East Los Angeles marked the 80th anniversary of the day in 1945 when the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II were allowed to return to their former hometowns on the West Coast.

Ryan Yamamoto reports on an exhibit that shows then-and-now photos of the Japanese American internment experience. Website: YouTube: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: