Japanese American
History/Internment Links
Children
of Detention Camps
This exhibit
captures the innocence and perceptions of Japanese American children through
their eviction and incarceration experience during World War II.
Children
of the Camps Project
The Children
of the Camps documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of
Japanese ancestry who were confined as children to internment camps during
World War II. The film vividly their personal journey to heal the wounds
they suffered from this experience.
Conscience
and the Constitution - Heart Mountain Project
"Conscience
and the Constitution" is a one-hour documentary on the largest organized
resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Organized
under the banner of the Fair Play Committee, a handful of young Americans
refused to be drafted unless the government restored their rights as U.S.
citizens and released their families from camp. The resisters served two
years in prison, and for the next 50 were written out of the official
history of Japanese America. Through their eyes we delve into the heart
of a public debate that is still alive today.
Densho
Project
A non-profit
educational endeavor preserving the history of Japanese Americans and
bringing it into classrooms and libraries around the world. The project
digitally videotapes individuals describing their lives, and telling the
stories of their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
Internment
Information
A very simple
site with information on a variety of subjects concerning the Japanese
American internment
Japanese
American National Museum
The Japanese
American National Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated
to sharing the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The mission
of the Japanese American National Museum is to promote understanding and
appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity by preserving,
interpreting and sharing the experiences of Japanese Americans
Katonk.com
An informative
and entertaining home page focusing on, but not limited to, the 442/100th
and other Japanese American WWII veterans.
National
Japanese American Historical Society
The National
Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), founded in 1980 in San Francisco,
is a non-profit membership supported organization dedicated to the preservation,
promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and
culture of Japanese Americans.
National
Japanese American Historical Society Travelling Exhibits
The main
focus of NJAHS is to tell the story of Japanese Americans to a broad audience
by providing travelling exhibitions to museums, historical societies and
community centers. Includes Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans
in Baseball; Reminiscing in Swingtime: Japanese Americans in American
Popular Music; Children of Detention Camps, 1942-1946; East to America:
The Japanese American Immigrant Experience; Go For Broke: The Story of
the All Japanese American 100th/442 Regimental Combat Team; Military Intelligence
Service (MIS) During World War II; Strength and Diversity: Japanese American
Women, 1885-1990; U.S. Detention Camps, 1942-1946; and Latent August:
Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Internment Experience
A large,
well-organized site with everything you'd want to know about the Japanese
American internment. Photos, documents, personal histories (including
Min Yasui's), timeline, and a large assortment of links.
Photos
of Internment Camps
A site devoted
to photographs of the Japanese American internment. Includes photos taken
by camp internees, the sites as they look today, and audio interviews.
Also includes a section dealing with Canadian camps.
Puyallup
Assembly Center, Camp Harmony
The Japanese
American Exhibit and Access Project provides access to the University
of Washington library holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans
during World War II.. Included is a virtual exhibit focusing on the Puyallup
assembly center, Camp Harmony, and archival guides and inventories of
the UniversityÕs manuscripts and archives.
Smithsonian
Asian Pacific American Studies Program
The Smithsonian
Asian Pacific American Studies program provides vision, leadership and
support for all APA activities at the Smithsonian, and servies as liaison
to APA communities. It aims to improve the public's appreciation of the
crucial roles APAs have played in American history.
The
Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project
The Heart
Mountain Digital Preservation Project features documents and photographs
from the Heart Mountain Relocation Center Collection at the John Taggart
Hinckley Library.
The
Japanese American Internment
A small site
dedicated to information about the internment.
This
Day In Asian History
What happened
on this day in Asian history? Latest news stories, Asian food, worldwide
calendar, articles & speeches. Contains a large selection of related links.
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