Japanese immigrants and aliens register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Interior view of the United States Post Office at 660 E. 22nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Main Street, Terminal Island (East San Pedro) is empty in preparation for a curfew and blackout on December 8, 1941, the day that the United States declared war on Japan.
Virginia Swanson Yamamoto, wife of Reverend Kichitaro Yamamoto, stands outside the Terminal Island Baptist Church with a Japanese American child in her arms.
Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals returning to Los Angeles after wartime internment in Heart Mountain, Colorado unload their belongings from a passenger train.
A newspaperman sells Rafu Shinbun's December 7, 1941 papers on the streets of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The papers report the news of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.