George Takei speaks to reporters in front of a blue backdrop.

‘Star Trek’ actor recalls boyhood detention during WWII in camp for Japanese-Americans

George Takei was among the tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast whom President Franklin Roosevelt ordered removed to inland camps after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

Lost umbrellas in Tokyo, 1975

Masao Iizuka, director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Lost and Found Center

Wavy Gravy: Just call him the 'psychedelic relic'

He's done it again.

Artistic background at Yokota, 1976

Kaoru Miyazato, a sixth-grader at Yokota West Elementary School, practices his yo-yo techniques in front of a rank of pop art partridges.

Helicopter lands on the USS Oklahoma City, 1974

A helicopter is guided to a landing on the deck of the Yokosuka-based guided missile light cruiser USS Oklahoma City, the flagship of Vice Adm. George P. Steele, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.

New names, same Navy

The U.S. Navy in the past two centuries has had jobs that have certainly been tagged with colorful nautical names.

President Gerald Ford in Tokyo, 1975

President Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, wave as they board Air Force One at Haneda Airport to continue on their trip to China.