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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
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An updated and annotated anthology of published articles written by a respected historian of Japanese American history. Featuring selected inmates and camp groups who spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority-administered compounds. Provides an understanding how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans opposed threats"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1942, the federal government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Eleven thousand of them landed on the outskirts of the Wild West town of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain Relocation Center would be their home for the next three years. They eked out a life, establishing Buddhist temples, digging...
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
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American."--
86) 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...
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the United States were rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Tateishi allows thirty Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves. And Justice for All captures the personal feelings and experiences of the...
Series
Legacy volume 2nd
Publisher
San Leandro Public Library
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Experience first-hand accounts of life in the American World War II internment camps and of Nisei soldiers who fought for the United States while their families were interned in camps throughout the United States. Included are stories of love and marriage, the MIS and 100th/442nd, resistance to the draft and the lives of young people caught up in the government action that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor."
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