japanese canadians

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japanese canadians

Stealing home

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, things change for Sandy Saito and his family. They are shunned by those who used to be their friends and eventually rounded up and sent to internment camps in remote British Columbia. While he and his family try to make the best of the crowded, cramped living arrangements, and their separation from his father, Sandy and the other kids at camp take refuge playing baseball, using it as their tool for survival.

Obasan

1984

Naomi's road

1986
The story of Naomi and her Japanese-Canadian family during the 1940s, when Canada was at war with Japan.

A child in prison camp

1989
An account of what it was like to spend three years as a child in a Canadian internment camp because her parents were of Japanese origin.

A child in prison camp

1974
For three years during World War Two, a Japanese-Canadian girl and her family are imprisoned with thousands of people considered possible security threats.

Obasan

1982
Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.

War of the eagles

1998
Jed, living with his mother in Canada while his English father serves as a fighter pilot during World War II, takes pride in his mixed heritage and his country, but his loyalties are tested when his best friend, Tadashi, a Japanese boy, is declared an enemy alien.
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