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Eric Shinseki has a very American story

Global Politics

The scandal at the Veterans Affairs Health Administration proved to be too much for Eric Shinseki, who resigned on Friday. The World’s Marco Werman talks with national security reporter Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe.

Japanese Americans remember ‘darkest hour,’ on Pearl Harbor Day (with video)

Global Politics

Baseball behind barbed wire

The World

Remembering Senator Daniel Inouye

Conflict & Justice

Japanese American WWII Veterans Look Back on Pearl Harbor

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Baseball in Japanese internment camps

Conflict & Justice

During World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps in the United States; they couldn’t earn money, practice their religion

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