Carolyn Classen clutched a gold-framed black-and-white photo of her late father, Francis Sueo Sugiyama, as she wiped tears from her eyes. The then-young Sugiyama stands smiling under sunny skies ...
The University of Southern California is apologizing and plans to award honorary degrees to dozens of Japanese-American students, who were not able to complete their studies in the 1940s after being ...
The University of Southern California opened a traditional Japanese rock garden on April 1 to honor its Japanese American students who were forced out of school and into concentration camps during ...
Carolyn Classen with a photo of her father, Francis Sueo Sugiyama, a dental student at USC during World War II. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Carolyn Classen clutched a gold-framed ...