japanese americans

Describes the history, customs, significance, and traditions of Japanese Children's Day and the Obon Festival, and the ways they are celebrated today in Japan and the United States.

The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.

Eleven-year-old Yuki and her Japanese-American family are uprooted from their home and put in a concentration camp called Topaz.

Chronicles the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war and what the federal and state governments did after World War II to compensate the Japanese-Americans.

A history of the 442nd "Nisei" Regiment which was almost entirely made up of Japanese American men and received more medals for bravery than any other American unit its size during World War II.

On title page: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment.

Presents eighteen firsthand accounts of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, from a variety of viewpoints; also includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and a further reading list.

The true-life story of Clara Breed, a librarian whose outreach efforts helped a group of Japanese-American children survive the persecutions of the American government during World War II.

Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.

Explores Japanese immigration to the United States from the 1880s to the present, and looks at the contributions of Japanese Americans to the culture of the United States.