Balch Online Resources

SOURCES ON JAPANESE-AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II

 Compiled by Patricia Proscino Lusk, July 1991.

*  The following bibliography includes photograph and manuscript collections; books, pamphlets, and reports ; newspapers; and periodicals found at the Balch Institute Library and Archives.  Call numbers appear at the end of each entry (VF denotes the library's Vertical File). 

PHOTOGRAPH AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Clothing Committee, Japanese American Relocation Center Records, 1943-1945, 2 ft.  The Clothing Committee of the AFSC sent gifts of clothing, toys, and other articles to Japanese Americans living in relocation centers during World War II.  This collection consists of AFSC administrative files for the program with new mothers.  The cards usually contain the name of the woman, where she resided, the sex and date of birth of the baby, and the date that a gift was ordered or sent.  Some cards contain additional information.  The cards are arranged alphabetically by the mother's surname.  Gift of Haverford College Archives.  Register available.  MSS 65

Boehm, Randolph, ed.  Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians: Part 1, Numerical File Archives.  Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 1984.  35 reels of microfilm plus 40 page guide with index.  Consists of government records and private library and archival materials assembled by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, which was established by Congress in 1980.  Following the publication of the commission report, Personal Justice Denied, in 1983 the original records were deposited at the National Archives.  Purchased through a grant from the Subaru of America Foundation.  Microfilm, J9

Denson High School, Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas; Publications and Photographs, 1943.  1 folder and 3 prints.  The Sakaguchi family was relocated to the Jerome Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas during World War II.  There Thomas Sakaguchi attended Denson High School.  The collection consists of the high school's 1943 annual "Victoria," and a copy of the graduation issue of the school's bi-monthly newspaper, "Condensor."  Two black-and-white Denson High School yearbook photographs in this collection are of Hiroshi Mayeda and Kiyoshi Tsuji.  One other black and white photograph is of Thomas Sakaguchi at the Jerome Relocation Center--the Center's barracks are visible in the background.  Gift of Thomas and Dorothy Sakaguchi.  Register available.  SC 268 and PG 341

Fujita Family Papers, 1942-1944, 1 in.  The Fujita family was evacuated under Executive Order 9066 from their home in Los Angeles to the nearby Santa Anita Assembly Center in 1942 and later transferred to the Amache Relocation Center in Prowers County, Colorado, where they spent the duration of World War II.  The collection consists of a variety of papers from the placement in Amache, including publications from the War Relocation Authority (WRA) and the Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL), programs from school ceremonies, handouts from the WRA regarding camp regulations, camp newsletters, a community directory, and other miscellaneous items.  Gift of June Fujita.  Register available.  SC 209

Higuchi Family Papers, 1930-1943, 1 folder.  Hisaki Higuchi came to the United States in 1914 and settled in Philadelphia.  His wife Hatsuno came to the United States in 1918.  Higuchi sold Japanese imports at several locations and operated summer concessions in Wildwood, New Jersey.  The collection consists primarily of photocopies of records documenting restrictions on the family during World War II, including notification of blocking of a bank account and application forms for permission to travel.  Also included are printed materials regarding postwar relocation.  Gift of George Higuchi.  Register available.  SC 212

Honda Family Papers, 1985, 1 folder.  The collection consists of a Photocopy of a brief history of the family written by Edith Aoi Honda.  Her parents came from Japan to the United States in 1920, and the family eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Gift of Edith Aoi Honda.  Register available.  SC 208

Horikawa Family, Papers, 1942-1944 and n.d., 6 folders; Photographs, 1920s and 1960s, 5 prints.  Shojiro and Kinuye Horikawa were Japanese immigrants married in 1925.  They lived in San Francisco where Shojiro opened a print shop.  In 1942, both were evacuated to the Colorado River Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona.  The collections provides extensive documentation of the family prior to their evacuation and internment and of Shojiro's various activities in the camp, where he served as an interpreter and superintendent of the Poston Print Shop.  The collection's correspondence also illuminates Shojiro's efforts to obtain a job after his release.  In Japanese and English.  One black and white photograph of Shojiro's Olympic Printing Shop in San Francisco is dated no later than 1926.  There are four additional balck and white prints of various Japanese-Americans in group photographs.  Gift of N. Richard Horikawa.  Register available.  SC 266 and PG 339

Inouye, Saburo and Michiyo Papers, 1909-1985, 5 folders.  Mr. and Mrs. Inouye were born in Hiroshima and Yanagi, Tokyo, Japan respectively and immigrated to the United States in 1919, settling in Sacramento. They were relocated under Executive Order 9066 to the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California and later to Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas.  In 1944 they moved to Philadelphia where they managed the Japanese-American Hostel, which aided Japanese Americans relocating to the area.  The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, and immigration and naturalization documents.  Gift of Miyoto I. Bassett and Eleanor W. Inouye.  Register available.  SC 163

Iwata, Shigezo and Sonoko, Papers, 1942-45, .75 ft.  Shigezo Iwata was born in Japan and emigrated to the United States in 1924.  Sonoko U. Iwata was born in Los Angeles.  The couple made their home in Thermal, California where they fanned and Shigezo was secretary of the Thermal Farmers' Cooperative Association.  Separated in the initial part of World War II when Shigezo was arrested and detained by the FBI at the Lordsburg Internment Camp (New Mexico), the Iwatas were reunited in 1943 at the Colorado River Relocation Center near Poston, Arizona.  The collection contains letters between the Iwatas and their friends detailing life in the relocation center and the internment camp.  There are also personal documents and biographical materials.  Also includes photographs of family members and others at Poston Relocation Center and Seabrook, NJ.  Gift of Ms. Sonoko Iwata.  Register available.  MSS 53

Kobayashi, Susumu Papers, 1942-1975, 1 ft.  Susumu Kobayashi was born in Hirata, Shamane-ken, Japan, and came to the United States in 1914 to join Yamato, a Japanese agricultural community near Palm Beach, Florida.  He later worked as a gardener in Chicago and in San Leandro, California.  He and his family were evacuated under Executive Order 9066 to Tanforan Assembly Center and later to the Topaz, Utah Relocation Center.  When released from the camp, the family relocated first to Connecticut and then to the Philadelphia area, where Susumu operated a contract gardening business.  The collection contains personal and business correspondence, business records including a ledger and daybook, and papers related to the family's relocation which include an alien registration book, an indefinite leave certificate, and a claim sheet for compensable items.  Also present are recordings of Japanese music.  For related materials see MSS 73, the Sumiko Kobayashi Papers.  Gift of Sumiko Kobayashi.  Register available.  MSS 71

Kobayashi, Sumiko, Papers, 1941-1991, 11 ft.  Sumiko Kobayashi was born in Yamato, a Japanese agricultural community near Palm Beach, Florida, the daughter of Japanese immigrants.  Her family was evacuated under Executive Order 9066 and interned in the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah.  Sumiko was allowed to leave the camp in order to attend college through the help of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, and graduated from Brothers College, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1946.  She has been active in many Japanese American and Asian American organizations as a member and officer, and served as Redress Chair for Pennsylvania of the Japanese American Citizens' League's National Committee on Redress.  The collection includes personal correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the family's time in the Topaz Relocation Center, but it consists primarily of records of the organizations in which she has been active.  For related materials see MSS 71, the Susumu Kobayashi Papers.  Gift of Sumiko Kobayashi.  Register available.  MSS 73

Nakai Family Photographs,  51 photographs, ca. 1945, 1948-1950s.  Includes photographs of family members in California and of family members, others, and activities at Poston Relocation Center and Seabrook, N.J.  Gift of Ms. Ichiyo Nakai.  PG 165

Nakano, Yosuke W. Papers, 1906-1953, .5 in.  Yosuke Watanabe Nakano was born in Yamaguchi City, Japan, and emigrated to the United States ca. 1906.  He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in architecture.  He was employed by Wark and Company Builders in Philadelphia.  The collection contains correspondence, financial papers, news clippings, and immigration and naturalization documents, and it provides information on the successful efforts of Wark and Company, a defense contractor, to retain Nakano during World War II.  For related materials, see SC 211, Nakano Family Papers.  Gift of Ms. Teru Nakano Graves.  Register available.  SC 164

Nakano Family Papers, 1944-1953, 1 folder.  The collection consists primarily of photocopies of clippings concerning Naomi Nakano Tanaka's difficulties with administrators while a student at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II.  For related materials see SC 164, the Yosuke W. Nakano Papers.  Gift of Marilyn Tanaka.  Register available.  SC 211

Okamoto Family Papers, 1910s-1970, 1 folder.  Richard T. Okamoto immigrated to the United States in 1916 and settled in Philadelphia, where relatives were operating an import business.  The collection consists of a letterhead and two advertisements for the family business, ca. 1920s; a family history written by Richard Okamoto's grandson; and 23 photographs of family members and business places in Philadelphia, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Heart Mountain Relocation Center.     Gift of Ms. Yone Okamoto and Allen Okamoto.  Inventory available.  SC 210 and PG 98

Patterson, Henry C., Papers, 1929-1972, .5 ft.  This collection includes correspondence relating to Patterson's service as an official of the War Relocation Authority and support for compensation for relocated Japanese Americans through the 1970s.  Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Patterson.  Register available.  MSS 4

Potts, Marion E. Papers, 1942-1973, .25 ft. and 31 photographs.  Marion E. Potts worked in Japan for the Lutheran Church as a school teacher from 1921-1941.  Upon her return to the United States she was assigned to work with Japanese Americans at the Manzanar Relocation Center, and she served as vice-principal of the high school, 1942-1945.  The collection consists primarily of materials relating to Potts' work at Manzanar and contains correspondence, student papers, publications, clippings, a report, a speech, and related materials.  It also contains 31 photographs documenting life at Manzanar, including some prints by Ansel Adams.  Gift of Ethel C. Potts.  Register available.  MSS 35 and PG 123

Shapp, Muriel, Papers, 1943-1944.  2 folders, 1 audiocassette.  The collection contains a 1944 yearbook from Topaz High School, uncataloged photographs of staff and students, and a recorded interview with Mrs. Muriel (Matzkin) Shapp, who taught at the high school from 1943-1945.  A partial transcript of the interview is available.  In English.  Gift of Mrs. Muriel Shapp.  Register available.  SC 267 and PG 340

United States Army, Western Defense Command, Posters.  This collection includes 18 posters dated 23 April –22 July 1942, including Civilian Exclusion Order nos. 13-15, 93-94, 97, 99-101, 103-104, 106.

Yabuki Family Papers, 1943-1983, 1 folder.  The collection contains papers of a Japanese American family evacuated to the Topaz Relocation Center under the provisions of Executive Order 9066.  After leaving Topaz, the family settled in Philadelphia.  Included are photocopies of applications for leave clearance and printed materials concerning relocation and the Japanese in Oakland, California.  For related materials see SC 163, the Saburo Inuoye Papers.  Gift of Dean M. Yabuki.  Register available.  SC 232

BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, REPORTS

Adams, Ansel.  Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs: Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, and Science.  Washington, D.C.: Echolight Corp., 1984.     TR 820.5 A3 1984

          Born Free and Equal, Photographs of the Loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, Calif.  New York: U.S. Camera, 1944.     F 870 J3 A57

Amigo, Eleanor D., ed.  Japanese Americans in Orange County: Oral Perspectives.  Fullerton: Japanese American Project of the Oral History Program, California State University, 1976.     D 769.8 A6 J35x

Attitudes toward "The Japanese in Our Midst."  Denver: National Opinion Research Center, University of Denver, 1946. E 184 M H6

Arrington, Leonard J.  The Price of Prejudice: The Japanese-American Relocation Center in Utah during World War II.  Logan: Faculty Association, Utah State University, 1962.     D 769.8 A6 A7

Bailey, Paul D.  City in the Sun; The Japanese Concentration Camp at Poston, Arizona.  Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1971.     D 769.8 A6 B3 1971

Beale, Lewis.  "Japanese-Americans Lift Veil from Roundup."  Philadelphia Daily News, March 4, 1981: 23, 29.     VF

Bosworth, Allan R.  America's Concentration Camps.  New York: Norton, 1967.     D805 X5 B6 1967

Broom, Leonard, and John Kitsuse.  The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956.     D 769.8 A6 B7x

Broom, Leonard, and Ruth Riemer.  Removal and Return; The Socioeconomic Effects of the War on Japanese Americans.  1949.  Reprint.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.     D 769.8 A6 B74 1973

California Historical Society.  Months of Waiting 1942-1945.  Los Angeles: The Society, 1972.     N 9162 U6 L58x

Canada.  Department of Labour.  Two Reports on Japanese Canadians in World War II.  1944, 1947.  Reprint.  New York: Arno Press, 1978.     D 768.15 A5 1978

Cates, Rita Takahashi.  Comparative Administration and Management of Five War Relocation Authority Camps: America's Incarceration of Persons of Japanese Descent during World War II.  Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1980.  Reprint. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1982.     D 769.8 A6 C37x

Chiasson, Lloyd Ernest, Jr.  An Editorial Analysis of the Evacuation and Encampment of the Japanese-Americans during World War II.  Ph.D. diss., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1982.  Reprint.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1984.     D 769.8 A6 C45x

Chuman, Frank F.  The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese Americans.  Del Mar, CA: Publisher's Inc., 1976.     KF 4846 C5

Clark, Paul Frederick.  Those Other Camps: An Oral History Analysis of Japanese Alien Enemy Internment during World War II.  Master's thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 1980.  Reprint. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980.    D 769.8 A6 C55x

Collins, Donald E.  Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans during World War II.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.     KF 7224.5C64 1985

Conrat, Maisie, and Richard Conrat.  Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans.  Los Angeles: California Historical Society, 1972.     D 769.8 A6 C6x

Corbett, P. Scott.  Quiet Passages: The Exchange of Civilians between the United States and Japan during the Second World War.  Kent: Kent State University Press, 1987.     D 753.8 C67 1987

Costello, John M., and Carey McWilliams.  "Should All Japanese Continue To Be Excluded from the West Coast for the Duration?"  Town Meeting; Bulletin of America's Town Meeting of the Air 9, no. 11 (1943).     VF

Daniels, Roger.  Concentration Camps, North America: Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II.  Malabar, FL: R.E. Kreiger Publishing Co., 1981.     D 769.8 A6 D35 1981

          The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.     D 769.8 A6 D36

          Three Short Works on Japanese Americans. New York: Arno Press, 1978.     KF 4846 A75 T48

Daniels, Roger, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry Kitano, eds.  Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986.     D 769.8 A6 J364 1986

Davis, Daniel S.  Behind Barbed Wire: The Imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.  New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982.     D 769.8 A6 D38 1982

Drinnon, Richard.  Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.     E 748 M93 D74 1987

Duus, Masayo Umezawa.  Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd.  Translated by Peter Duus.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.     D 753.8D8813 1987

Eaton, Allen H.  Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.     N 7355 E2

Embrey, Sue Kunitomi, ed.  The Lost Years, 1942-1946.  Los Angeles: Moonlight Publications, 1972.     D 769.8 A6 L6x

Embrey, Sue Kunitomi, Arthur A. Hansen, and Betty Kulberg Mitson.  Manzanar Martyr: An Interview with Harry Y. Ueno.  Fullerton: Oral History Program, California State University, 1986.     D 769.8 U34 A3 1986

Fisher, Anne R.  Exile of a Race; A History of the Forcible Removal and Imprisonment by the Army of the 115,000 Citizens and Alien Japanese Who Were Living on the West Coast in the Spring of 1942.  1965.  Reprint.  Seattle: F. & T. Publishers, 1970.     D 769.8 A6 F5 1970

Foote, Caleb.  Outcasts!: The Story of America's Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority.  New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1943.     D 769.8 A6 F6

From Camp to College: The Story of Japanese. American Student Relocation.  Philadelphia: National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, 1945.     LC 3171 F7x

Fukei, Budd.  The Japanese American Story.  Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1976.     E 184 J3 F84

Garrett, Jessie A., and Ronald C. Larson, eds.  Camp and Community: Manzanar and the Owens Valley.  Fullerton: Japanese American Oral History Project, California State University, 1977.     D 769.8 A6 C23

Gentile, Nancy J.  "Survival Behind Barbed Wire: The Impact of Imprisonment on Japanese-American Culture during World War II."  The Maryland Historian 19 (Fall/Winter 1988): 15-32.     VF

Gesensway, Deborah, and Mindy Roseman.  Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.     D 805U5 G47 1987

Girdner, Audrie, and Anne Loftis.  The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II.  New York: Macmillan, 1969.     D 769.8 A6 G5

Grodzins, Morton.  Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese Evacuation.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.     D 769.8 A6 G7 1969

Hansen, Arthur A, ed.  Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project, Part I: Internees.  Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.     D 769.5 A6 H36 1990

          , ed.  Japanese American World War II.  Evacuation Oral History Project, Part II: Administrators.  Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.

Hansen, Arthur A., and Betty E. Mitson, eds.  Voices Long Silent: An Oral Inquiry into the Japanese American Evacuation.  Fullerton: Japanese American Project, Fullerton Oral History Program.  California State University, 1974.     D 769.8 A6 V64

Harrington, Joseph.  Yankee Samurai: The Secret Role of Nisei in America's Pacific Victory.  Detroit: Pettigrew Enterprises, Inc., 1979.     D 753.8 H37

Harrison, Earl G.  "Civilian Internment-American Way."  Survey Graphic 33 (May 1944): 229-233, 270.  Serial

Hersey, John.  "Behind Barbed Wire."  New York Times Magazine, September 11, 1988.     VF

Hohri, William Minoru.  Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American Redress.  Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1988.     D 769.8 A6 H64 1988

Hosokawa, Bill.  JACL in Quest of Justice.  New York: William Morrow and Co., 1982.     E 184 J3 H6 1982

          .  "Looking Toward the Future."  Editorial in the Heart Mountain Sentinel, July 10 & 17, 1943.  VF

          Nisei, the Quiet Americans.  New York: William Morrow and Co., 1969.     E 184 J3 H6

          Thirty-Five Years in the Frying Pan.  New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978.     E 184 J3 H623

Houston, Jeanne W., and James D. Houston.  Farewell to Manzanar; A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.     E 184 J3 H63

Ichioka, Yiju, ed.  Views From Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study.  Los Angeles: American Studies Center, University of California, 1989.     D 769.8 A6 V53 1989

In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1943, no. 679.  Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu v. United States of America, on Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Memorandum for the United States.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1944.     D 769.8 A6 I6x

Irons, Peter H.  Justice at War.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.     KF 7224.5 .176 1983

Ishigo, Estelle.  Lone Heart Mountain.  Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1972.     D 769.8 A6 17

Ito, Roy.  We Went to War: The Story of the Japanese Canadians Who Served during the First and Second World Wars.  Stittsville, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 1984.     D 768.15 J86 1984

James, Thomas.  Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans 1942-1945.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.     D 769.8 A6 J345 1987

Japanese American Citizens' League.  For Better Americans in a Greater America: The Story of the Japanese American Citizens League. N.p. 1951?     D 753.8J3

In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1944, no. 22.  Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, Petitioner, vs. United States of America, Respondent: Brief of Japanese American Citizens League, Amicus Curiae.  Los Angeles: Parker, 1944.     E 184 J3 J34x

          The National Committee for Redress.  The Japanese American Incarceration: A Case for Redress.  2nd ed.  San Francisco: National Committee for Redress, 1979.     D 769.8 A6 J35x 1979

          They Work for Victory: The Story of Japanese Americans and the War Effort.  Salt Lake City: Japanese American Citizens League, 1945?     D 753.8 J35

"The Japanese American Concentration Camp Testimonies."  Amerasia Journal 8, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1981) Serial

The Japanese American Experience: An Exhibition in the Museum of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.  Philadelphia: Balch Institute, 1985.     E 184 J3 J37x

The Japanese in Our Midst.  Photocopy.  Denver: Colorado Council of Churches, 1943.     D 769.8 A6 J3x

Kashitani, Sumio.  Sakunai No Fukuin.  Tokyo: Hadano Keikitsu, 1955.     BV 4240 K3x

          Tenjusha No Shuki: Hifu Nihonjin Kyokai Jidai.  Tokyo: Yamamoto Jitaro, 1958.     D 769.8 A6 K33x

Kawano, Doris K.  Harue, Child of Hawaii.  Honolulu, Hawaii: Topgallant Publishing Co., 1984.     PS 3561 A89 H3x

Kehoe, Karon.  City in the Sun.  New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1946.     PS 3521 E38 C585x

Kikuchi, Charles.  The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp; the Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi.  Edited by John Modell.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.     D 769.8A6 K54

Kikumura, Akemi.  Through Harsh Winters; The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman.  Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, 1982.     F 869 L5 T366

Kitagawa, Daisuke.  Issei and Nisei; The Internment Years.  New York: Seabury Press, 1967.     D 753.8 X5

Kitano, Harry H.L.  Japanese Americans: The Evolution of a Subculture.  2nd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.     E 184 J3 K5 1976

Kochiyama, Yuri.  Fishmerchant's Daughter: An Oral History.  New York: Community Documentation Workshops, 1981.     D 769.8 A6 K7x

Kuroiwa, Wallace Hisashi Ryan.  The Internment of the Japanese in America during World War II: An Interpretation According to the Ethics of Character.  Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1983.  Reprint.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1984.     D 769.8 A6 K96x

Leighton, Alexander H.  The Governing of Men; General Principles and Recommendations Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.     D 805 U5 L4

Linedecker, Clifford.  "One Day of Infamy, Years of Shame."  Today Magazine; The Philadelphia Inquirer: December 17, 1972.     VF

Little, Geraldine Clinton.  Hakugai: Poem from a Concentration Camp.  Austin: Curbstone Publishers, 1983.     PS 3562 .17828 H3x

"The Long Road: Japanese Americans Move on Redress."  Bridge; Asian American Perspectives 7, no. 4 (Winter 1981-82).     Serial

Martin, Ralph G.  Boy from Nebraska: The Story of Ben Kuroki.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.     D811 X75

Masaoka, Joe Grant.  "Japanese Americans."  In World Conference on Records and Genealogical Seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., 5-8 August 1969.  Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of the Church of Latter Day Saints, 1969.     VF

Masaoka, Mike, and Bill Hosokawa.  They Call Me Moses Masaoka: An American Saga.  1st ed. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987.     E 184 A M366 1987

Masumoto, David Mas.  Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community.  1st ed. Del Ray, CA: Inaka Countryside Publications, 1987.     F 869 D29 M37 1987

Matsumoto, Toru.  Beyond Prejudice.  New York: Arno Press, 1978.     D 769.8 A6 M35 1976

McWilliams, Carey.  Prejudice, Japanese-Americans: Symbol of Racial Intolerance.  Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1944.     E 184 J3 M36

          What About Our Japanese-Americans?  New York: Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1944.     D 769 A6 M254

Miyamoto, Kazuo.  Hawaii; The End o the Rainbow.  Rutland, VT: Bridgeway Press, 1964.     D 805 U5 M5

Modell, John.  "American Concentration Camps."  The Pennsylvania Gazette 72 (February 1974): 19-32.     VF

Morimitsu, George.  These are Our Parents.  Reprint.  1943.  N.p. 1943.     D 769.8 A6 M57x

Mossman, Robert Alan.  Japanese-American War Relocation Centers as Total Institutions with Emphasis on the Educational Program.  Ed.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1978.  Reprint.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, International, 1987.     D 769.8 A6 M6x

Mydans, Carl.  "Tule Lake: At This Segregation Center are 18,000 Japanese Considered Disloyal to U.S."  Life 16 (March 1944): 23-25.     VF

Myer, Dillon Seymour.  Uprooted Americans: The Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority during World War II.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974.     D 769.8 A6 M9

Nakamura, Norman Noboru, and Ron Hirano, comps.  The Bancroft Library Collection of WRA Photographs on the Japanese American Internment and Resettlement.  Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1971.     D 769.8 A6 B35x

Nakano, Ujo.  Within the Barbed Wire Fence: A Japanese Man's Account of His Internment in Canada.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.     D 768.15 N34

National Association of Japanese Canadians, Conference.  Spirit of Redress: Japanese Canadians in Conference.  Edited by Cassandra Kobayashi and Roy Miki.  Vancouver: JC Publications, 1989.     D 805 C2 N3x

Nicholson, Herbert V., and Margaret Wilke.  Comfort All Who Mourn: The Life Story of Herbert and Madeline Nicholson.  Fresno, CA: Bookmates International, 1982.     BX 7756 N64 A3x

O'Brien, Robert W.  The College Nisei.  Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1949.     D 769.8 A6 027 1978

Oda, James.  Heroic Struggles of Japanese Americans: Partisan Fighters from America's Concentration Camps.  2nd ed.  North Hollywood, CA: James Oda, 1981.     D 753.8 .0313 1981

Okubo, Mine.  Citizen 13660.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.     D 769.8 A6 038

Oye, George M.  Translation of Senryu.  Media, PA: George M. Oye, 1981.     PL 782 M 097 1981

Pursinger, Marvin Gavin.  Oregon's Japanese in World War II: A History of Compulsory Relocation.  Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1961.  Reprint.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, Inc., 1987.     F 885 J3 P8x

Rademaker, John Adrian.  These Are Americans; The Japanese Americans in Hawaii in World War II.  Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1951.     O/S D 767.92 R3

Rhoads, Esther B.  "My Experience with the Wartime Relocation of Japanese."  In East Across the Pacific, edited by Hilary Conroy and T. Scott Miyakawa, pp. 127-150.  Santa Barbara: American Bibliographical Center—Clio Press, 1972.     E 184 J3 C66 1972

Sarasohn, Eileen Sunada.  The Issei: Portrait of a Pioneer: An Oral History.  Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1983.     E 184 J3 185 1983

Shellum, Duane R.  America's Human Secret Weapon.  Minneapolis: Minnisei Printers, Inc., 1977.     D 810 P7 U6x

Shimada, Koji.  Education, Assimilation and Acculturation: A Case Study of a Japanese-American Community in New Jersey.  Ed.D. diss., Temple University, 1974.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox University Microfilms, 1987.     F 145 J3 S5x

Shirey, Orville.  Americans: The Story of the 442d Combat Team.  Washington, D.C.: Infantry Journal Press, 1947, c.1946.     D 769.31 442d S5

Sone, Monica I.  Nisei Daughter.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.     F 899 S49 J376

Spicer, Edward H., Asael T. Hansen, Katherine Luomala, and Marvin K. Opler.  Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969.     D 769.8 A6 A5 1969

Sugimoto, Henry.  Hokubei Nihonjin No Shuyoyo: Kiroku Kaiga.  Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1981.     ND 237 S947 A4 1981

Takashima, Shizuye.  A Child in Prison Camp.  New York: Morrow, 1974.     O/S D 768.15 T34 1974

Takata, Toyo.  Nikkei Legacy: The Story of Japanese Canadians from Settlement to Today.  Toronto: New Canada Press Limited, 1983.     F 1035 J3 T34 1983

Tanaka, Chester.  Go for Broke: A Pictorial History of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.  Richmond, CA: Go For Broke, Inc., n.d.     D 769.31  100th  .T36 1982

Tateishi, John.  And Justice For All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps.  New York: Random House, 1984.     D 769.8 A6 A67 1984

Ten Broek, Jacobus, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd Matson.  Prejudice, War and the Constitution.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.     D 769.8 A6 T4x

Thomas, Dorothy.  The Salvage.  1952.  Reprint.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.     D 769.8 A6 T45 1975

          The Spoilage.  1946.  Reprint.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.     D 769.8 A6 T46 1974

Tsuchida, William Shinji.  Wear It Proudly, Letters by William S. Tschida.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947.     D 811 T79

Uchida, Yoshiko.  Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.     D 769.8 A6 U25 1982

United States.  Army.  Western Defense Command and Fourth Army.  Final Report. Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.     D 769.8 A6 A37 1942

United States.  Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.  Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1982.     D 769.8 A6 U39 pt. I

          .  Congress.  House.  Committee on the Judiciary.  Japanese-American and Aleutian Wartime Relocation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations on H.R. 4110, and H.R. 4322...June 20, 21, 27, and September 12, 1984.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1985.     KF 27J832x 1984

                                       Japanese-American Evacuation Claims: Hearings before Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7763….  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1956.     D 769.8 A6 A413x

                              .  Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration.  Problems of Evacuation of Enemy Aliens and Others from Prohibited Military Zones, parts 29-31, and Findings and Recommendations on Evacuation of Enemy Aliens and Others from Prohibited Military Zones.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1942.     D 769.8 A6 A5 1942h

                              .  Special Committee on Un-American Activities.  Establishment Of the War Relocation Centers: Report and Minority Views of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on Japanese War Relocation Centers.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1943?     D 769.8 A6 A55x

          .  Department of the Interior.  War Agency Liquidation Unit.  People in Motion: The Postwar Adjustment of the Evacuated Japanese Americans.  Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1949.     D 769.8 A6 U5x

          .  War Relocation Authority.  The Evacuated People: A Quarantine Description.  1946.  Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1975.     D 769.8 A6 U5 1975F

                    Relocating Japanese Americans.  Washington, D.C.: War Relocation Authority, 1945.     D 769.8 A6 A53x

                    Questions and Answers for Evacuees; Information Regarding the Relocation Program.  Photocopy.  San Francisco: War Relocation Authority, Regional Office, n.d.

Segregation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry in Relocation Centers.  Washington, D.C.: War Relocation Authority, 1943.

"Tabulation of Newsclippings, March 15 to April 30, 1945."  Mimeographed.  San Francisco: War Relocation Authority, Regional Office, 1945.     O/S D 769.8A6 T3x

A Voice that Must be Heard: Extracts from Statements regarding Americans of Japanese Ancestry by President Roosevelt...et al.  N.p. 1943?     D 769.8 A6 V6x

Wallinger, Michael John.  Dispersal of the Japanese Americans: Rhetorical Strategies of the War Relocation Authority 1942-1945.  Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1975.  Reprint.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: Xerox University Microfilms, 1980.     D 769.8 A6 W3x

Wax, Rosalie H.  "Fieldwork in the Japanese American Relocation Centers 1943-1945."  Part 2 of Doing Fieldwork, Warnings and Advice.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.     H 61 W3x 1985

Weglyn, Michi.  Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps.  New York: Morrow Quall Paperbacks, 1976.     D 769.8 A6 W43 1980

Yatsushiro, Toshio.  Politics and Cultural Values: The World War II Japanese Relocation Centers.  Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1954.  Reprint.  New York: Arno Press, 1978.     D 769.8 A6 Y37 1978

Yoneda, Karl G.  Ganbatte: Sixty-Year Struggle of a Kibei Worker.  Los Angeles: Resource Development and Publications, Asian American Studies, University of California, 1983.     HD 8073 Y66 A34 1983

Zich, Arthur.  "Japanese Americans, Home At Last."  National Geographic, (April 1986): 512-539.     VF

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

Newspapers

Arizona.  Poston.  Official Daily Press Bulletin, June-December 1942.     Microfilm

          Official Information Bulletin, May-June 1942.     Microfilm

          Poston Christian Church, July-September 1942.     Microfilm

          Poston Chronicle, December 1942-October 1945.     Microfilm

          Poston Official Bulletin, July 1942.     Microfilm

          Poston Red Cross, December 1942.     Microfilm

          .  Rivers.  Gila Bulletin, September 1945.     Microfilm

          Gila News Courier, September 1942-September 1945.     Microfilm

Arkansas.  Denson.  Communique, October 1942-February 1943.     Microfilm

          Denson Tribune, March 1943-June 1944.     Microfilm

          .  McGehee.  Rohwer Relocator, August-December 1945.     Microfilm

          .  Rohwer.  The Rohwer Outpost, October 1942-July 1945 (includes various supplements).     Microfilm

California.  Los Angeles.  Kaishu Mainichi, December 1941-March 1942.     Microfilm

          .  Manzanar.  Manzanar Free Press, June 1942-December 1945.     Microfilm

          .  Newell.  Newell Star, March 1944-February 1946.     Microfilm

          Tulean Dispatch, June 1942-October 1943.     Microfilm

          WRA Center Information Bulletin, February-March 1944.     Microfilm

_        .  Santa Anita.  Santa Anita Pacemaker, April-July 1942.     Microfilm

_         .  San Francisco.  Pacific Citizen, January 1942-March 1942.     Microfilm

_         .  Tanforan.  Tanforan Totalizer, May-September 1942.     Microfilm

Colorado.  Amache.  Granada Pioneer, October 1942-September 1945 (includes various supplements).     Microfilm

         .  Granada.  Granada Bulletin, October 1942.     Microfilm

 _       .  Denver.  Colorado Times, March-October 1945.     Microfilm

          Rocky [Rockii] Shimpo, June 1944-December 1945.     Microfilm

Idaho.  Hunt.  Minidoka Irrigator, September 1942-June 1945.     Microfilm

Utah.  Salt Lake City.  Pacific Citizen, June 1942-December 1946.     Microfilm

          .  Topaz.  All Aboard, Spring 1944.     Serial

          Topaz Times, September 1942-August 1945 (includes various supplements).     Microfilm

          Trek, 1 (1942): No. 1; 1 (1943): Nos. 2, 3     Serial

Wyoming.  Heart Mountain.  Heart Mountain Sentinel, October 1942-July 1945 (includes various supplements).     Microfilm

Periodicals

Delta Roundup Yearbook.  194?.  (Rohwer Center High School).     Serial

Jerome Senryu Shigarami.  2 (1944): nos. 1-3.     Serial

Gila Senryu Shigarami.  2 (1944): nos. 4-7; 3 (1945): 1-8.     Serial

Resume.  1944.  (Rohwer Center High School yearbook).     Serial

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