Books
Videos1. "Strength & Diversity Japanese American Women, 1885-1990" Approx. 20 mins.
2. "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" -Teachers Seminar Mar '97 Approx 90 mins.
3. "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution" Lectures Approx.60 mins. each
- Part One Feb. 25, '97 - Opening ceremony of the exhibit
- Part Two Mar. 3, '97 - Judge William Marutani (Phil.) speaks on the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
- Part Three Mar. 10, '97 - Dr. Thomas Linehan, Professor at Oberlin College speaks on the re-settlement of Japanese Americans in Cleveland
- Part Four Mar. 17, '97 - Dr. Toaru Ishiyam, Retired Psychologist and former internee from California speaks on "The Topaz Journey"
- Part Five Mar. 24, '97 - Monica Sone author of "Nisei Daughter" speaks on her experience of growing up in Seattle as a Japanese American and the impact of Executive Order 9066 had on her family
Part Six Mar. 31, '97 - Professor and artist Masumi Hayashi speaks on her photo collages of the internment camp sites that still remain
Other Books of InterestTitle: Noguchi east and west
Author: Ashton, Dore. ; with special photographs by Denise Browne Hare.
Content: A biography of the sculptor and designer
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1992.
Description: x, 331 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 709.2 122Title: Too long been silent : Japanese Americans speak out
Author: Axford, Roger W.
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : Media Publishing & Marketing, c1986.
Description: xiv, 114 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.547273 127Title: The Big aiiieeeee! : an anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American literature / edited by Jeffery Paul
Chan ... [et al.].
Author: Chan, Jeffery Paul.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Meridan, 1991.
Description: xvi, 619 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 810.80895 153Title: Pearl Harbor ghosts : a journey to Hawaii, then and now
Author: Clarke, Thurston.
Content: In depth look at the human consequences of the 7th of December, 1941.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, c1991.
Description: 411 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 996.9 231Title: Concentration camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II.
Also known as: Berkshire studies in history. Berkshire studies in minority history
Author: Daniels, Roger.
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1971]
Description: xiv, 188 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.547273 273Title: Prisoners without trial : Japanese Americans in World War II
Also known as: A Critical issue
Author: Daniels, Roger. Foner, Eric.
Content: Takes a look at how and why the Japanese internment happened. Daniels also speculates as to whether it can happen again.
Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 1993.
Description: 146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.531503956073 DanielsTitle: Kristi Yamaguchi : artist on ice
Also known as: The Achievers
Author: Donohue, Shiobhan.
Content: A biography of the figure skater
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Pub. Co., c1994.
Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jBIO Yamaguchi
MAIN JUVENILE Book jBIO YamaguchiTitle: Keeper of concentration camps : Dillon S. Myer and American racism
Author: Drinnon, Richard.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
Description: xxviii, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 305.800973 2925Title: Tokyo Rose, orphan of the Pacific / Masayo Duus ; translated from the Japanese by Peter Duus ; introd.
by Edwin O. Reischauer.
Also known as: Tåokyåo Råozu. English
Author: Duus, Masayo, 1938-
Publisher: Tokyo : Kodansha International ; New York : distributed in the United States through
Harper & Row, 1979.
Description: xvii, 248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book BIO Tokyo RoseTitle: All God's children
Author: Eidson, Tom, 1944-
Content: Story of a widowed Quaker woman struggling to raise her sons and keep her land on the frontier. Trouble with her neighbors arises when she befriends and takes in a Japanese-American family.
Publisher: Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1998.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book LP FICTION EidsonTitle: Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita / foreword and notes by Stanley L. Falk ; introduction by Robert Wear.
Also known as: No. 1 in the War and the Southwest series; War and the Southwest series ; no. 1.
Author: Fujita, Frank, 1921-
Content: Frank "Foo" Fujita's memoirs of his time as an American POW on the island of Java.
Publisher: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1993.
Description: 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.547652 384Title: The Toyotomi blades : a Ken Tanaka mystery
Author: Furutani, Dale.
Content: Amateur detective Ken Tanaka visits Japan and gets involved in a mystery involving a sword from the 17th century.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Description: 212 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book MYSTERY FurutaniTitle: Snow falling on cedars
Author: Guterson, David.
Content: Story of a Japanese-American on trial for murder during World War II and the journalist covering the trial. Set in Washington state.
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
Description: x, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: MADISON ADULT Book FICTION Guterson
MAIN ADULT Book FICTION GutersonTitle: Bebop-a-do-walk !
Author: Hamanaka, Sheila.
Content: A Japanese-American girl and her friend accompany her father on an exciting walk through New York City.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1995.
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK HamanakaTitle: JACL in quest of justice
Author: Hosokawa, Bill.
Publisher: New York : W. Morrow, 1982.
Description: 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 973.04956 477
Title: Farewell to Manzanar; a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. ; Houston, James D., joint author.
Publisher: Toronto, New York, Bantam [1974]
Description: xiii, 145 p. 18 cm.
Location: MADISON ADULT Book 940.547273 Houston
MAIN ADULT Book 940.547273 479
MAIN ADULT Book 940.547273 Houston
MAIN ADULT Book on order 06/10/98 MN3 MD1Title: The hunt for "Tokyo Rose"
Author: Howe, Russell Warren, 1925-
Publisher: Lanham : Madison Books, c1989.
Description: xvii, 354 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.5488752 478Title: Middle son : a novel
Author: Iida, Deborah, 1956-
Content: Narrator Spencer Fujii recalls the history of a fictionalized Japanese-American community in Hawaii through flashbacks.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c1996.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MADISON ADULT Book FICTION Iida
MAIN ADULT Book FICTION IidaTitle: Power and culture : the Japanese-American war, 1941-1945
Author: Iriye, Akira.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
Description: ix, 304 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.5352 5063Title: Justice at war
Author: Irons, Peter H., 1940-
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
Description: xiii, 407 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 342.73083 506Title: Fishing Sunday
Author: Johnston, Tony, 1942- ; Root, Barry, ill.
Content: A young boy is embarrassed by his grandfather's old Japanese ways, but on one of their Fishing Sundays, he learns
to see Grandfather in a new light.
Publisher: New York : Tambourine Books, c1996.
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK JohnstonTitle: The floating world
Author: Kadohata, Cynthia.
Content: Story of a Japanese-American girl and her family travelling around the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1989.
Description: 196 p. ; 23 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book FICTION KadohataTitle: Stubborn twig : three generations in the life of a Japanese American family
Author: Kessler, Lauren
Content: Issei: the first generation -- Nisei: the second generation -- Sansei: the third generation.
Publisher: New York : Random House, c1993.
Description: xvi, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 929.2089956073 Kessler
MAIN ADULT Book on order 01/14/98 MN1Title: The Japanese Americans
Also known as: The Peoples of North America
Author: Kitano, Harry H. L.
Content: Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Japanese, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Publisher: New York : Chelsea House, c1987.
Description: 92 p. : ill. [some col.] ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book j973.04956 534Title: Pink paper swans
Author: Kroll, Virginia L. Clouse, Nancy L., ill.
Content: Janetta, intrigued by the paper animals her neighbor Mrs. Tsujimoto makes, learns the art of origami and becomes
Mrs. Tsujimoto's hands when her arthritis makes it difficult for her to continue.
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, c1994.
Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK KrollTitle: Leopard
Author: La Plante, Richard.
Content: Josef Tanaka's brother has been murdered. Now the medical examiner must return to Japan to confront his brother's killer.
Publisher: New York : Forge, 1994.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book FICTION La PlanteTitle: Dawn's early light
Also known as: Tides of war ; bk. 1
Author: Larson, Elsie J.
Content: A woman whose husband was killed at Pearl Harbor must face her prejudice when she is asked to spy on interned Japanese-Americans but becomes sympathetic to their plight.
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, 1996.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MADISON ADULT Book FICTION Larson
MAIN ADULT Book FICTION LarsonTitle: The oriental Americans
Also known as: The Immigrant heritage of America series
Author: Melendy, H. Brett (Howard Brett)
Publisher: [New York] Hippocrene Books [1972]
Description: 235 p. 21 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 301.451951 615Title: Talking to high monks in the snow : an Asian odyssey
Author: Minatoya, Lydia Y. (Lydia Yuriko), 1950-
Content: A Japanese-American woman's search for cultural identity.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c1992.
Description: 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 973.04956 625Title: Baseball saved us
Author: Mochizuki, Ken, 1954- ; Lee, Dom, 1959- ill.
Content: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp
during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
Publisher: New York : Lee & Low, c1993.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jFICTION Mochizuki
MAIN JUVENILE Book jFICTION MochizukiTitle: Saying goodbye : a memoir for two fathers
Author: Montgomery, M. R.
Publisher: New York : Knopf, c1989.
Description: xxv, 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 929.20973 6457Title: Where the body meets memory : an odyssey of race, sexuality, and identity
Author: Mura, David.
Content:A sensual memoir that looks at racial and sexual taboos in America.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1995.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 305.8956073 MuraTitle: How and where to research your ethnic-American cultural heritage : Japanese Americans
Author: Reed, Robert D
Publisher: Saratoga, Calif. : Reed, 1979.
Description: iv, 28 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 929.1028 7744Title: Under the blood-red sun
Author: Salisbury, Graham.
Content: Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in
Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c1994.
Description: 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jFICTION Salisbury
MAIN JUVENILE Book jFICTION SalisburyTitle: Kristi Yamaguchi, pure gold
Also known as: Taking part books
Author: Savage, Jeff, 1961-
Content: A biography of the young Japanese American skater who won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the 1992
Winter Olympics.
Publisher: New York : Dillon Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
Description: 64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jBIO Yamaguchi
MAIN JUVENILE Book jBIO YamaguchiTitle: Grandfather's journey
Author: Say, Allen.
Content: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the
feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Description: p. cm.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK Say
MAIN JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK SayTitle: A bridge between us
Author: Shigekuni, Julie.
Content: The story of four generations of Japanese-American women in San Francisco.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, c1995.
Description: 253 p. ; 20 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book FICTION ShigekuniTitle: Nisei daughter
Author: Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919- ; introd. by S. Frank Miyamoto.
Content: The author recounts growing up in pre-World War II Seattle and what happens after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1979] c1953.
Description: xvii, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 979.777004956 SoneTitle: Silent honor [sound recording]
Author: Steel, Danielle. ; Gaines, Boyd.
Content: When Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese government, the United States no longer is a safe place for the
American born Japanese. This novel tells the story of one family's relocation to a detention camp.
Publisher: New York, NY : BDD Audio, p1996.
Description: 4 sound cassettes (360 min.) : analog, Dolby processed.
Location: MADISON AV Audiocas CAS FICTION Steel
MAIN AV Audiocas CAS FICTION SteelTitle: Nisei Regiment
Also known as: World at war
Author: Stein, R. Conrad.
Content: 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.
Publisher: Chicago : Childrens Press, 1985.
Description: 47 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book j940.5412 852Title: To the stars : the autobiography of George Takei, Star trek's Mr. Sulu.
Author: Takei, George, 1940-
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, c1994.
Description: x, 406 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Location: MADISON ADULT Book BIO Takei
MAIN ADULT Book BIO TakeiTitle: A jar of dreams
Author: Uchida, Yoshiko.
Content: A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great
prejudice.
Publisher: New York : Atheneum, 1981.
Description: 131 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jFICTION UchidaTitle: Journey to Topaz; a story of the Japanese-American evacuation.
Author: Uchida, Yoshiko. Carrick, Donald, illus.
Content: After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens
camp in Utah.
Publisher: New York, Scribner [1971]
Description: viii, 149 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jFICTION UchidaTitle: The bracelet
Author: Uchida, Yoshiko. ; Yardley, Joanna, ill.
Content: Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II,
but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.
Publisher: New York : Philomel, c1993.
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Location: MAIN JUVENILE Book jPICTURE BK UchidaTitle: Go
Author: Uyemoto, Holly.
Content: Wilhelmina deals with emotional problems and her Japanese-American family's history on the eve of her 21st birthday.
Publisher: New York : Dutton, 1995.
Description: 200 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book FICTION UyemotoTitle: Candle in the wind
Author: Wartski, Maureen Crane, 1940-
Content: On the night of a party celebrating his acceptance into Harvard, Harris Mizuno, a Japanese-American teenager, is shot dead by an elderly white man who mistakes him for an intruder when Harris asks to use the phone because his car has stalled.
Publisher: New York : Fawcett Juniper : Ballantine Books, 1995.
Description: 185 p. ; 17 cm.
Location: MADISON JUVENILE Book jFICTION Wartski
MAIN JUVENILE Book jFICTION WartskiTitle: Years of infamy : the untold story of America's concentration camps; with an introduction by James A. Michener.
Author: Weglyn, Michi, 1926-
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1996.
Description: 351 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 940.531503956073 WeglynTitle: East to America : a history of the Japanese in the United States
Author: Wilson, Robert Arden, 1910- ; Hosokawa, Bill, joint author.
Publisher: New York : Morrow, 1980.
Description: 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 973.04956 937
MAIN ADULT Book on order 01/14/98 MN1Title: A student's guide to Japanese American genealogy
Also known as: Japanese American genealogy Oryx American family tree series
Author: Yamaguchi, Yoji, 1963-
Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1996.
Description: vii, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Location: MAIN ADULT Book 929.1089956073 Yamaguchi