Nonfiction: Japanese Relocation and Internment Camps in the U.S. During World War II
Japanese and Chinese Culture
A One Book, One Community list related to Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

 

Japanese Relocation and Internment Camps in the U.S. During World War II
Armor, John. Manzanar. Times Books, 1988 (940.5472 Ad17m)

Conrat, Maisie. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. California Historical Society, 1972. (301.453 C764e)

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. Hill and Wang, 2004 (940.5472 D228p)

Gesensway, Deborah. Beyond words: images from America's concentration camps. Cornell University Press, 1987. (940.5472 G33b)

Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps. NewSage Press, 2005. (940.5472 G922l)

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment. Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
(301.453 H818f)

Kitagawa, Daisuke. Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years. Seabury Press, 1974. (301.453 K646i)

Lange, Dorothea. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. W.W. Norton, 2006. (940.5472 L26i)

Lorenzen, A. M. A Lovely Little War: Life in a Japanese Prison Camp Through the Eyes of a Child . History Pub. Co., 2008. (940.5472 L887l)

Myer, Dillon S. Uprooted Americans: the Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority during World War II. University of Arizona Press, 1971. (301.453 M992u)

Neiwert, David A. Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (979.7 N319s)

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Heyday Books; California Historical Society, 2000. (940.5472 On55)

Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. The Commission, 1983. (301.453 P32)

Smith, Page. Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II. Simon and Schuster, 1995. (940.5472 Sm63d)

Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei Daughter. University of Washington Press, 1979. (921 So57)

Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family. University of Washington Press, 1984. (940.5472 Uc44d)

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. Morrow, 1976. (301.453 W421y)

What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? St. Martin's, 2000. (940.5472 W556)

 

DVDs:
Citizen Tanouye
Eight ethnically diverse high school students from Torrance, California bring history to life as they research Technical Sergeant Ted Tanouye, a graduate of their high school who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in WWII. Through their research of Citizen Tanouye, the students not only discover the impact of the war on their city, but also draw attention to the civil rights abuses of WWII-era America.
WGBH Boston Video, 2008. (940.5404 C498 DVD)

Time of Fear
In World War ll, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas. Through interviews with the internees and local citizens, the program explores how the influx of outsiders affected the local community and the impact this history had on the issues of civil rights and social justice in America then and now.
PBS Home Video, 2005. (940.5472 T482 DVD)

Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases
In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were uprooted from their lives and incarcerated in relocation camps. Their stories, along with those who refused to go, are told in this Oscar nominated film.
New Video, 2005. (940.5317 Un22 DVD)

WWII: They Also Served
A collection of four previously released DVDs that bring to life various aspects of World War II.
WGBH Boston Video, 2008. (940.54 W9692 DVD)

 

Japanese and Chinese Culture
Benedict, Ruth. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946. (915.2 B434c)

Blunden, Carol. Cultural Atlas of China. Facts on File, 1998. (912.51 B628c)

Busch, Noel Fairchild. The Horizon Concise History of Japan. American Heritage Publishing Co., 1972. (915.2 B96h)

Collcutt, Martin. Cultural Atlas of Japan. Facts on File, 1988. (952 C685c)

Cortazzi, Hugh. The Japanese Achievement: A Short History of Japan and Its Culture. St. Martin's Press, 1990. (952 C818j)

Cotterell, Arthur. China's Civilization: A Survey of Its History, Arts, and Technology. Praeger, 1975. (915.1 C827c)

Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850. University of Washington Press, 1992. (973.0495 D228a)

Frederic, Louis. Japan: Art and Civilization. Abrams, 1969. (709.52 F872j)

Haring-Kuan, Petra. Magnificent China: A Guide to Its Cultural Treasures. Joint Publishing Co., 1987. (915.1 H224m)

Hessler, Peter. Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. (915.1 H468o)

Hucker, Charles O. China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture. Stanford University Press, 1975. (951 H865c)

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture. Tuttle Pub., 2002. (952.03 J271)

Keene, Donald. Landscapes and Portraits: Appreciations of Japanese Culture. Kodansha International Ltd., 1971. (895.6 K251l)

Mah, Adeline Yen. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom. Broadway Books, 2001. (181.11 M277w)

Sakaiya, Taichi. What is Japan?: Contradictions and Transformations. Kodansha International, 1993. (952 Sa29w)

Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations. Harcourt, 1989. (951 Sch35b)

Temple, Robert K. G. The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. Simon and Schuster, 1986. (509.51 T247g)

Toynbee, Arnold Joseph. Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. (915.1 T668h)

 

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