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Two local Japanese American attorneys, Kenji Ito and Thomas Masuda, pleaded not guilty in District Court of being unregistered agents of an enemy government. Earlier two Japanese American businessmen, Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Y. Osawa, also…

A Japanese hotel clerk was threatened when two Filipinos, angry at the clerk for his tone of voice when he said they had been drinking, tried to hit him and knife him, but were apprehended by the police when another employee called the officers.

Photo of a Japanese American woman pointing to a picture of her brother now serving in the United States Army indicating that he is an American and that the furniture store he operated is still being operated by an American.

Photographs of Japanese in Seattle during the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing. One photo along with a short blurb shows people tabulating the donations for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's "Buy a Boeing Bomber" campaign; another shows the…

Attorneys Thomas Masuda and Kenji Ito pleaded innocent of charges of being agents of Japan in U.S. Disctrict Court without first registering with the State Department. Masuda's attorney asked for a reduction in bail, which was denied.

Congressman Lea, Democrat of California, held in a conference in his office in which he and other U.S. representatives recommended that Japanese aliens and those with dual citizenship be removed from the West Coast and that they be given assistance…

U.S. Representative Leland Ford proposed sending all Japanese on the West Coast to concentration camps as a sacrifice of their loyalty to the U.S. Seattle Japanese, however, objected to the idea because they would become wards of the government; and…

Pictures of a fishing fleet in British Columbia near Vancouver and the confiscation by the government.

The federal government is trying to learn from the experience of Hawaii about what to do with the West Coast Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing. They don't want the coast to be vulnerable as Hawaii was.

Columnist Jack Ferry of Canada gave his response to other articles written by Andy Snaddon and Leslie Bewley which defended the Japanese population of Brtish Columbia whereas Ferry's column expressed taking precautions and being safe rather sorry.