Title: The Internment of Indonesians in the United States: An Untold Story Speaker: Dr. Greg Robinson, Professor of History, Université du Québec à Montréal Date: June 23 (Monday), 14.00-15.30 Venue: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Abstract: The first visible community of Southeast Asians in North America grew out of the movement of asylum seekers from Indonesia in the 1940s, but this same movement also led to the first large-scale internment of Muslims in the United States. As is well known, during the years of World War II, the United States Army rounded up over 110,000 citizens and long-term residents of Japanese ancestry on the [ Read More ]