Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945, a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans
Learn about Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II. Explore how the government justified this practice against...
Mizuno, Takaya (2001) "The Creation of the 'Free' Press in Japanese-American Camps: The War Relocation Authority's Planning and Making of the Camp Newspaper Policy." Journalism & Mass Communication Quart- erly. 78(3): 503-518.Mizuno, Takeya. 2001. The Creation of the "Free" Press in ...
Huell goes to L.A.'s Japanese American National Museum for a firsthand look at some remarkable home movies showing what life was like in California during the 1920s-40s and inside the internment camps during World War II. Writer Huell Howser Producer Huell Howser See all filmmakers & ...
Japanese American Children's Books list on lesser known authors telling important stories. I hope this list will inspire more authors!
This study examines the representation of Japanese American experiences in internment camps during World War II in children's and adolescent literature. This study focuses on a specific set of children's and adolescent books about one time period in the history of Japanese Americans. I have formula...
Guest speaker Sam Mihara was imprisoned in the Heart Mountain Wyoming Japanese American internment camps during WW2. His educational presentation gives a historical perspective to immigration and imprisonment.
This is a 9 minute edited interview with Japanese American internees recalling evacuation and the heated climate during internment. Memories, survivors of the U.S. Concentration Camps for the Japanese Americans (Nikei) during WW II, from interviews by Masumi Hayashi, in 1992 and 1993. Audio mast...
had been seized for nonpayment of taxes or otherwise appropriated. As they started over, they covered their sense of loss and betrayal with the Japanese phraseShikata ga nai—It can’t be helped. It was decades before nisei parents could talk to their postwar children about the camp...
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government issued executive order 9066, which empowered the military to round up anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in prison camps. Sign up for Inside History Get HISTORY’s most fascinating stories delivered to your inbox three times ...