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3) Aoki
Publisher
Ben Wang
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
AOKI chronicles the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009), a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. Filmed over the last five years of Richard's life, this documentary features extensive footage with Richard and exclusive interviews with his comrades, friends, and former students. Viewers will learn about Richard's childhood in a WWII Japanese American concentration camp, growing up in West...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Revised and expanded edition..
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 510 pages :) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Close explores Toguri's character and decisions by placing her story and conviction for treason in the context of U.S. and Japanese racial views, Imperial Japan, and Cold War politics."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born on an island off the cost of Hiroshima around 1908, Midori Shimoda died in North Carolina in 1996, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for two decades. A photographer, he was incarcerated in a Department of Justice prison during WWII under suspicion of being a spy for Japan. From his birth to contract laborer/picture-bride parents to his immigration and prewar life in Seattle's Nihonmachi, to wartime incarceration and postwar resettlement...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in California, Gyo Fujikawa always knew that she wanted to be an artist. She was raised among strong women, including her mother and teachers, who encouraged her to fight for what she believed in. During World War II, Gyo's family was forced to abandon everything and was taken to an internment camp in Arkansas. Far away from home, Gyo worked as an illustrator in New York while her innocent family was imprisoned. Seeing the diversity around...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the case of Fred Korematsu, who sought compensation from the American government for his time spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclubhostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
1st University of Washington Press edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"English translation and first privately published edition of a valuable book on Japanese immigration and internment during WWII. Initially published in Japanese to a limited readership. This informative study, candidly and insightfully written, details the formative period of Japanese migration to Peru and, just as importantly, the trying experience of the author, his family, and 1,800 other Japanese-Peruvians who were interned in the US during WWII....
Author
Publisher
Tanner Trust Fund, Marriott Library, The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"What should by now be a familiar, if always disturbing event in American history--the internment of Japanese American citizens and aliens during World War II--is given an original treatment in this creative memoir. Lily Havey was ten years old when her family of four was uprooted and sent first to Santa Anita Assembly Center in southern California and subsequently for the duration of the war to the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in southeastern...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father’s cancer grasped hold of their family. As she grew older and learned to better manage her episodes, Lin became frustrated with the...
16) My dog Teny
Author
Publisher
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"My dog Teny is a true story about a boy and his dog and the friendship that they shared. It's a story that my father never talked about for over sixty years. It's a story about how the love of a dog never really ends and that life with all its trials and tribulations does come full circule. In 1942, the United States government issued Executive order 9066 which would force over 120,000 Japanese American men, women, children and elderly from their...
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