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An aide to President Franklin Roosevelt acknowledged a resolution signed by, 1,300 Seattle residents of Japanese ancestry pledging loyalty to the United States. The letter was received by James Y. Sakamoto, chairman of the Emergency Defense Council…

The government of Canada announced that all Japanese aliens were to be removed from defense areas in British Columbia and the only ones that would be allowed to remain would be those with police permits.

The number of cases of insanity rose in King County as a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the war.

A legislator in the British Columbia legislature urged the removal of all Japanese in the coastal areas and send them further inland where they wouldn't be able to engage in fifth column activity.

The government presented it case to a federal grand jury regarding four American-born Japanese Thomas Masuda, Kenji Ito, Yoshima Osawa and Charles T. Takahashi who were charged with subversive activities.

A 17-year-old Japanese youth was arrested between an oil company dock and Pier 14 with an open knife.

A man was arrested in the shooting of druggist James Hara after the two had exchanged greetings. The gunman said he shot the druggist because the latter had been rude to his wife.

Brtish Columbia's Japanese were preparing to leave the defense areas of the province and to move inland as required by government fiat. Fishing boats were being sold to other Canadian operators, and prohitition of certain items (cameras, explosives,…

A Japanese alien interned at Fort Richardson in Alaska requested that his family be allowed to join him because the conditions were so nice a the Fort.

Photo essay of nine photos of the Japanese in America by a French language magazine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada showing the life of Japanese Americans in California and Seattle, especially the work they're involved in.