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RESOURCES
Local Resource Agencies
Asian American Curriculum Projects Inc. (AACP Inc.)
www.asianamericanbooks.com
P.O. Box 1587
San Mateo, CA 94401
(415) 343-9408
Extensive collection of elementary and secondary materials is
available. Write for a catalog.
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
JACL has resources and curricula on internment.
1765 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 921-5225
Contact JACL for audio-visual guide that lists videos available
from national distributors.
Japanese American History Archives
www.amacord.com/fillmore/museum/jt/jaha/jaha.html
1840 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 776-0661
Hosts exhibits open to the public. Houses a growing collection
of books, periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, art and
film relating to the Japanese experience in the United States
from the mid-1800s to the present.
Japanese American National Library
P.O. Box 590598
San Francisco, CA 94159
(415) 567-5006
Collection of published materials on Japanese Americans. Information
and referral service weekdays 1 to 5 p.m.
Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org/main.htm
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
(213) 625-0414 or (800) 461-5266
National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
www.naatanet.org
346 Ninth St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 863-0814
Distributes the following films and new media for educators:
Beyond Barbed Wire,57 min. This exceptional documentary
outlines the W.W.II battlefield accomplishments of the 100th
Infantry Battalion/442 Regimental Combat Team by featuring
stories recounted by Japanese Americans who fought in these
segregated units to prove their loyalty to their country.
Children of the Camps, 57 min. A powerful documentary
which shares the experiences, cultural and familial issues,
and the long internalized grief and shame felt by six Japanese
Americans who were only children when incarcerated in concentration
camps during World War II.
The Color of Honor, 90 min. Portrays the dilemma of
Japanese Americans called to serve in the military during
World War II while being incarcerated.
Conversations: Before and After the War, 29 min. Three
fictional characters discuss facts, experiences and feelings
brought on by the World War II incarceration.
Days of Waiting, 28 min. Academy Award-winning documentary
depicts the story of Estelle Peck Ishigo, a woman of European
descent married to a Japanese American and incarcerated in
the Heart Mountain camp.
A Family Gathering, 60 min. Narrates the story of
the Yasui family in Oregon and how they survived to reclaim
their lives as Americans.
Manzanar, 16 min. Documentary centering on the internment
camp at Manzanar, located in Independence, California.
Meeting at Tule Lake, 33min. Fifty years later after
their incarceration, seven former internees discuss how they
came to terms both during and after the camp experience.
A Personal Matter: Gordon Hirabayashi v. United States,
30 min. Documents the story of Gordon Hirabayashi’s 42-year
quest to reverse his conviction. Accompanied by secondary-level
curriculum.
Unfinished Business, 60 min. Documents the story of
three men, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui,
who defied Executive Order 9066 and were separately convicted
and imprisoned.
National Japanese American Historical Society
www.njahs.org
1684 Post St.reet
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 921-5007
Holds a large collection of Japanese-American books, photos
and artifacts; sponsors exhibits. Site has links to many helpful
sources.
Web Sites
http://www.densho.org/
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project developed essays
complete with photographs and video clips for teachers.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropolgy74/
National Park Service Web site; information on and photos
of specific internment camps.
http://www.facinghistory.org/
Facing History and Ourselves offers a teacherÕs resource guide
to the novel Farewell to Manzanar.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
Information on Japanese-American internment and links to
other pertinent sites.
www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/poster.html
Includes a photograph and wording of the Exclusion Order
of May 3, 1942.
www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/gallery.html
Photographic essay on the internment, including work from
Dorothea Lange.
www.jainternment.org
Produced by NAATA; a basic history about internment and
its impact. Includes video and audio clips and Web links.
www.janm.org
Japanese American National Museum’s Web site, with
a link to National Resource Center for fact sheets on internment.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/default.htm
Library of Congress Camp Harmony Exhibit.
Selected Films
Snow Falling on Cedars, Director Scott Hicks 1999, 2
hour film based on novel by David Guterson.
Yankee Samurai: Little Iron Men, 50 minute documentary
based on Joseph D. Harrington’s 1979 book of the same title.
Selected Speakers
Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima, Kimochi Senior Center 1715 Buchanan
Street; San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 931-2294
Selected Elementary-Level Books
(Kindergarten Through Sixth Grade)
• Alonso, Karen. Korematsu v. United States. Enslow
Publishers Inc. 1998.
• Chin, Steven. When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu
Story. Steck-Vaughn Co. National Education Corp. 1993.
• Hiroto, Edwin, ed. Through Innocent Eyes. Keiro
Services, 1990.
• Hongo, Florence M., and Miyo Burton, eds. Japanese Americans:
The Untold Story. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1971.
• Kogawa, Joy. Naomi's Road.
• Means, Florence Crannell. The Moved-Outers. Walker
and Co. 1992.
• Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low
Books. 1993.
• Mochizuki, Ken. Heroes. Lee & Low. 1995.
• Poynter, Margaret. A Time Too Swift. Macmillan Children’s
Group. 1990.
• Shigekawa, Marlene. Blue Jay in the Desert. 1993.
• Stanley, Jerry. I Am an American. Crown Publishers,
Inc. 1994.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. The Best Bad Thing. Atheneum. 1983.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. Viking Press. 1958.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. The Happiest Ending. Atheneum.
1985.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread: A Memoir by Yoshiko
Uchida. 1991.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. A Jar of Dreams. Atheneum. 1982.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey Home. Atheneum. 1978.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz. Charles Scribner’s
Sons. 1971, 1985.
• Yashima, Taro. Umbrella. Viking Press. 1958.
Selected Intermediate-Level Books
(Sixth Through Eighth Grade)
• Bonham, Frank. The Burma Rifles. Thomas Y. Crowell.
1960.
• Davis, Daniel S. Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment
of Japanese Americans During World War II. Dutton Children
Books. 1982.
• Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida. Scholastic
Inc. 1999.
• Hamanaka, Sheils. The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism
and Renewal. Orchard Books, 1990.
• Honda, Diane. Manzanar High School Yearbook: Our World.
• Hongo, Florence M. and Miyo Burton, eds. Japanese American
Journey: The Story of a People. JACP, Inc. 1985.
• Ishigo, Estelle. Lone Heart Mountain. Anderson,
Ritchie & Simon. 1972.
• Leathers, Noel L. The Japanese In America. Lerner
Publications Company. 1991.
• Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away From Freedom. G.P. Putnam's
Sons. 1995.
• Martin, Ralph G. Boy From Nebraska. Harper Brothers.
1946.
• Okubo, Mine. Citizen 13660. University of Washington.
1983.
• Salisbury, Graham. Under Blood Red Sun. 1995.
• Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. Little Brown &
Co. 1953.
• Tunnel, Michael and George Chilcoat. The Children of
Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp. 1996.
Selected Secondary-Level Books
(Seventh Through Twelfth Grade)
• Americans of Japanese Ancestry and the United States
Constitution. NJAHS. 1987.
• Armor, John, and Peter Wright. Manzanar, Photographs
by Ansel Adams. Time Books. 1988.
• Gesensway, Debora, and Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words.
Cornell University Press. 1987.
• Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. 1994.
• Hosokawa, Bill. The Quiet Americans. William Morrow
and Co. 1969. Univ.ersity Press of Colorado. 1992.
• Houston, Jeanne W., and James D. Houston. Farewell
to Manzanar. 1972.
• Houston, Jeanne W., and James D. Houston. Story of
the 442nd Combat Team.
• Inada, Lawson Fusao. Legends From Camp.
• Kamei Dempster, Brian. Ed. From Our Side of the Fence:
Growing Up in AmericaÕs Concentration Camps. 2001.
• Kessler, Lauren. Three Generations in the Life of
a Japanese-American Family. 1993.
• The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From an American Concentration
Camp. University of Illinois Press. 1993.
• Kikumura, Akemi. Through Harsh Winters. Chandler
and Sharp. 1981.
• Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa. Our House Divided: Seven Japanese-American
Families in World War II. University of Hawaii Press. 1991.
• Kogawa, Joy. Itsuka. Anchor Books. 1994.
• Mirikitani, Janice. Shedding Silence. Celestial
Arts. 1987.
• Nakano, Mei. Japanese-American Women. Mina Press
and National Japanese Historical Society. 1990.
• Okada, John. No No Boy. Tuttle. 1957.
• Saiki, Patsy Kisaku. Ganbare: An Example of Japanese
Spirit. 1982.
• Sasaki, R.A. The Loom and Other Stories. Graywolf
Press. 1991.
• Tajiri, Vincent, ed. Through Innocent Eyes: Teenagers’
Impressions of World War II Internment Camp Life. Keiro
Services. 1990.
• Tanaka, Chester. Go for Broke. Go for Broke, Inc.
1982.
• Tateishi, John. And Justice for All. Random House.
1984.
• Tsuchida, John Nouya. Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese-American
Women in Minnesota. 1994.
• Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a
Japanese-American Family. 1982.
• Wilson, Robert A., and Bill Hosokawa. East to America:
A History of Japanese in the United States. William Morrow.
1980.
• Yamada, Mitsuya. Campnotes and Other Poems. Shameless
Hussy Press. 1976.
• Yamada, Mitsuya. Desert Run. Kitchen Table, Women
of Color Press. 1988.
• Yasui, Robert. Yasui Family of Hood River, Oregon.
Selected Reference Books
• Bailey, Paul. City in the Sun. Westernlow Press.
1971.
• Chang, Thelma. I Can Never Forget: Men of the 100th/442nd.
Sigi Productions. 1991.
• Daniels, Roger. Asian America. University of Washington.
1988.
• Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps of North America,
Japanese in the U.S., and Canada during World War II. R.E.
Krieger Pub.Co. 1981 (revised).
• Daniels, Roger. Decision to Relocate the Japanese
Americans. Lippincott. 1986 (reprint).
• Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice. Antheneum.
1974.
• Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese
Americans in World War II. Hill and Wang,. 1993.
• Daniels, Roger, Sandra C. Taylor and Harry H.L. Kitano,
eds. Japanese Americans From Relocation to Redress. University
of Washington Press. 1991 (revised).
• Endo, Takako, et al. JACP Inc. Japanese American
Journey: The Story of a People. Asian American Curriculum
Projects Inc. 1985.
• Iritani, Frank, and & Joanne Iritani. Ten Visits:
Accounts of Visits to All the Japanese-American Relocation Centers.
1995 (reprint).
• Kashima, Tetsuden. Author of Foreword. Personal Justice
Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment
of Civilians. University of Washington. 1997.
• Leighton, Alexander H. The Governing of Men. Princeton
University Press. 1945.
• National Japanese Historical Society and San Francisco
Unified School District. The Bill of Rights and the Japanese-American
World War II Experience. 1992.
• Okihiro, Gary Y. Personal Justice Denied: Report of
the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
University of Washington. 1997.
• Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese Internment
at Topaz. University of California Press. 1993.
• Thomas, Dorothy Swaine. The Salvage. University
of California Press. 1952.
• Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy. William and Morrow
Co. 1976.
• Yamaguchi, Jack. This Was Minidoka. 1989.
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