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Takaki, Ronald. A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices. Little, Brown and Company: 1998.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. 1976. University of Washington Press: 1979.

Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine. Anchor Books: 2002.

Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. 1953. University of Washington Press: 2000.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. 1993. Hill and Wang: 2004.

Fugita, Stephen S., and David J. O’Brien. 1991. Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. University of Washington Press: 1994.

Neiwert, David A. Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community. Palgrave Macmillan: 2005.

Educator Resources. Created and Compiled by the National Park Service and Manzanar National Historic Site.

James, Thomas. Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. Harvard College: 1987.

Hayami, Stanley. Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son. Brick Tower Press: 2008.

Mochizuki, Ken, and Dom Lee. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low Books, Inc.: 1993.

Cooper, Michael L. Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp. Clarion Books: 2002.

Cooper, Michael L. Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II. Clarion Books: 2000

Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. Scholastic, Inc.: 2006.

Ishizuka, Karen L. Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. University of Illinois Press: 2006.

Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Hayday Books: 2000.

Daniels, Roger, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano, eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. Revised ed. University of Washington Press: 2001.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, Japanese-American internment stories: http://www.densho.org/

Beyond Barbed Wire (Salem, OR) Statesman Journal on Japanese Internment

Lost dream restored to Japanese American family, LA Times article

[Article] Nakao, Kazuko. “My Father’s Gift.” Guideposts, May, 2007.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. 1993. Hill and Wang: 2004.

Daniels, Roger, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H. L. Kitano, eds. Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress. Revised ed. University of Washington Press: 2001.

Fugita, Stephen S., and David J. O’Brien. 1991. Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. University of Washington Press: 1994.

Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Hayday Books: 2000.

Ishizuka, Karen L. Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. University of Illinois Press: 2006.

James, Thomas. Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. Harvard College: 1987.

Neiwert, David A. Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community. Palgrave Macmillan: 2005.

Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine. Anchor Books: 2002.

Seigel, Shizue. In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment. AACP, Inc.: 2006.

Takaki, Ronald. A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices. Little, Brown and Company: 1998.

Woodward, Mary. In Defense of Our Neighbors: the Walt and Milly Woodward Story. Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community: 2008.

 

Student Literature

Bunting, Eve. So Far From the Sea. Clarion Books: 1998.

Busby, Joan. The Other Side of the Fence. Mustard Seed Press: 2005.

Cooper, Michael L. Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp. Clarion Books: 2002.

Cooper, Michael L. Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II. Clarion Books: 2000

Hayami, Stanley. Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son. Brick Tower Press: 2008.

Kitano, Harry. The Immigrant Experience; The Japanese Americans. Chelsea House Publishers: 1996.

Mochizuki, Ken, and Dom Lee. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low Books, Inc.: 1993.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. 1976. University of Washington Press: 1979.

Oppenheim, Joanne. Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference. Scholastic, Inc.: 2006.

Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. The Putnam & Grosset Group: 1996.

Yabu, Shigeru. Hello Maggie! Yabitoon Books: 2007.

Audio and Video

Farewell to Manzanar, 1976 Made for TV Movie, now available on DVD

A More Perfect Union, Japanese Americans and the Constitution, Smithsonian Institution

Beyond Barbed Wire, Stateman Journal (about Salem, OR)

Organizations

Japanese American National Museum

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Minidoka National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)