Primary
Children of the Camps; Internment History. (n.d.). PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved February 1, 2012, from http://www.pbs.org/childofcamps
PBS provided a great timeline of Japanese in American before, during, and after their internment during WWII.
It provided links to official documents and documentaries. It also gave quotes of legal documents pertaining to the Japanese American internment.
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp. (n.d.). Home | Japanese American National Museum. Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://www.janm.org/exhibits /breed/title.htm
The letters to Miss Breed gave us a first hand look at the effect Japanese American internment camps had on the lives of young children living in the camps.
Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment - Worldpress.org. (n.d.). Worldpress.org - World News From World Newspapers. Retrieved January 17, 2012, from http://www.worldpress.org/2588.cfm
Dorothea Lange took pictures of Japanese American interment, providing our website with accurate and beneficial images.
These pictures gave us visual insight to the reality of the conditions inside the camps.
Ishiaka, Tony (Jan. 31, 2012) Personal Interview
Tony Ishiaka was the interview that provided our project with extensive inside information. Tony shared many personal stories of fear and heartbreak
that Japanese Americans went through, and still go through, to this day because of their internment experience. Our most valuable quotes came from Tony.
Kaneshiro, T. (1976). Internees. New York: Vantage Press.
Internees is filled with personal stories of internees through their journalism. We found this very beneficial to provide quotes and inside information on the camps.
Kobata, T (Feb. 13, 2012) Personal Interview
Ted Kobata was interned at the age of 17 and in our interview he gave us his view of why the internment was so wrong, and the things that were so wrong about it.
His interview was really valuable in our information, giving us yet another point of view from someone inside the camps. Ted provided factual information also.
Yamamoto, Joyce (Feb. 7, 2012) Personal Interview
Joyce Yamamoto was born in a Japanese Internment camp and stayed there with her mother and other siblings. Joyce provided us with information
on her families life before being interned and also who qualified as internees. She also gave us conditions of the camp and told us of her and her
families struggle after being released.
Secondary
1910, the time Angel Island Immigration Station opened in “KQED : Pacific Link: The KQED Asian Education Initiative: History: Angel Island:
Immigration from Japan.” (n.d.) Public Media for Northern CA.
Retrieved January 17, 2012, from http://www.kqed.org/w/pacificlink/history/angelisland/japan.html
This website provided us with information about the Japanese immigration from Japan to America. It also gave us details about discrimination after
Pearl Harbor.
Armor, J., Wright, P., Hersey, J., & Adams, A. (1988). Manzanar = Ringoen. New York, N.Y.: Times Books.
Manzanar = Ringoen depicts the lifestyle of the relocation center Manzanar. It tells about the people and the way they lived during the WWII when
the Japanese were in internment camps.
Boch, A. (Director). (2004). 9/11 America's concentration camps then ... and now? [Documentary]. USA: Japanese American National Museum.
This video shows life in an internment camp during WWII. The interviews are first hand accounts and give very descriptive information about the Japanese’s
life in camps.
Connell, T. (2002). America's Japanese Hostages. Westport: Praeger.
This novel tells us how Latin American wanted a Japanese free nation during WWII.
Daniels, R., Taylor, S. C., Kitano, H. H., & Arrington, L. J. (1986). Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press.
Daniel’s book is a chronological overview of the Japanese experience. He also has first person account interviews that give us insight into internees’ lives.
Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese - 1942. (n.d.) Museum of the City of San Francisco.
Retrieved December 11, 2011, from http://sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
This site gives newspaper documents from the first six months of 1942 from The San Francisco News.
Eysturlid, L. W. (n.d.). Presidential Power: Executive Order 9066 - Japanese American Internment. In Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.
Retrieved January 3, 2012, from http://issues.abc-clio.com/
This article is addressing the presidential power of the time, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Executive Order 9066.
Fiset, L. (2009). Camp Harmony. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Camp Harmony is based in Seattle and explains the lives and struggles of the Japanese Americans in the Puyallup Assembly Center.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9066 (1942). (n.d.). In Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.
Retrieved January 3, 2012, from http://issues.abc-clio.com/
President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 from 1942.
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen's_Agreement_of_1907
Wikipedia provides a thorough understanding of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.
Harth, E. (2001). Last witnesses: reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. New York: Palgrave for St. Martin's Press.
This is a book focusing on the emotions, hardships and struggle that the children and women faced living a daily life in the internment camps.
Houston, J., & Houston, J. (1973). Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of the Japanese American during and after the times of the internment camps in WWII.
It also brings up the different issues about United States Wartime Civil Control Administration.
Japanese-American Internment (n.d.). ushistory.org. Retrieved January 6, 2012, from http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp
This website is where we obtained the information of Korematsu vs. The United States which was vital on our website.
Neiwert, D. A. (2005). Strawberry days: how internment destroyed a Japanese American community. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
This book tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community.
Nishimoto, R. S., & Hirabayashi, L. R. (1995). Inside an American concentration camp: Japanese American resistance at Poston, Arizona.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
This book examines the experiences of the internees based on Nishimoto’s wartime reports for a government study of the evacuation and
resettlement process.
Pearl Harbor Attack. (n.d.). American History. Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/295250?terms=PearlHarbor
This is a website giving us information on the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Relocating Japanese Americans. (1945). Washington, D.C.: War Relocation Authority.
This book provides us with information on the relocation of Japanese Americans from their houses, to temporary location and then finally to internment
camps where they stayed for years.
Robinson, G. (2001). By order of the president: FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
This book uses Roosevelt’s own writings and internal government documents to reveal the president’s central role in making and implementing the internment
and explains not only what the president did but why.
Roxworthy, E. (2008). The spectacle of Japanese American trauma: racial performativity and World War II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
This book disregards the notion that Japanese Americans were able to go back to normal lifestyles after WWII. It explains the damages it did to
Japanese Americans and how it still has an impact on them today.
Suyemoto, T., & Richardson, S. B. (2007). I call to remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's years of internment. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Toyo Suyemoto was an internment camp survivor. She tells her life story and gives us information about wartime decisions as well as how the
Japanese adjusted to their caged life.
The Japanese Internment: World War II (Overview). (n.d.). In American History. Retrieved December 18, 2011, from http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
This website gives us information about the racist treatment the Japanese immigrants received in American, the evacuation, the interment and the
resettlement after the internment was over. This gives us a brief overview but covers many crucial subjects we studied for our topic.
Tran, A. (2010). The Japanese American Internment: Innocence, Guilt, and Wartime Justice. School Library Journal, 56.11(Professional Collection), 138.
The Japanese American Internment: Innocence, Guilt, and Wartime Justice is an overview of the events that led up to the signing of the
Executive Order 9066, which authorized the relocation of Japanese Americans. It also gives us details about the life in the internment camps and
an examination of the long-term ramifications for the Japanese American community.
Pictures
Photographs of an Episode That Lives in Infamy (n.d.) Retrieved January 2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/arts/design/06lang.html
On this New York Times website we were able to retrieve many of Dorothea Lange’s images of the internment camps. Japanese American Internment
Japanese American Internment (n.d.) Retrieved February 17, 2012 http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic5e.html
Calisphere was a great website providing pictures for our project.
Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (n.d.) Retrieved February, 2012
from http://www.worldpress.org/2588.cfm
This was another site that provided Dorthea Lange's images she took during WWII.
Children of the Camps; Internment History. (n.d.). PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved February 1, 2012, from http://www.pbs.org/childofcamps
PBS provided a great timeline of Japanese in American before, during, and after their internment during WWII.
It provided links to official documents and documentaries. It also gave quotes of legal documents pertaining to the Japanese American internment.
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp. (n.d.). Home | Japanese American National Museum. Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://www.janm.org/exhibits /breed/title.htm
The letters to Miss Breed gave us a first hand look at the effect Japanese American internment camps had on the lives of young children living in the camps.
Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment - Worldpress.org. (n.d.). Worldpress.org - World News From World Newspapers. Retrieved January 17, 2012, from http://www.worldpress.org/2588.cfm
Dorothea Lange took pictures of Japanese American interment, providing our website with accurate and beneficial images.
These pictures gave us visual insight to the reality of the conditions inside the camps.
Ishiaka, Tony (Jan. 31, 2012) Personal Interview
Tony Ishiaka was the interview that provided our project with extensive inside information. Tony shared many personal stories of fear and heartbreak
that Japanese Americans went through, and still go through, to this day because of their internment experience. Our most valuable quotes came from Tony.
Kaneshiro, T. (1976). Internees. New York: Vantage Press.
Internees is filled with personal stories of internees through their journalism. We found this very beneficial to provide quotes and inside information on the camps.
Kobata, T (Feb. 13, 2012) Personal Interview
Ted Kobata was interned at the age of 17 and in our interview he gave us his view of why the internment was so wrong, and the things that were so wrong about it.
His interview was really valuable in our information, giving us yet another point of view from someone inside the camps. Ted provided factual information also.
Yamamoto, Joyce (Feb. 7, 2012) Personal Interview
Joyce Yamamoto was born in a Japanese Internment camp and stayed there with her mother and other siblings. Joyce provided us with information
on her families life before being interned and also who qualified as internees. She also gave us conditions of the camp and told us of her and her
families struggle after being released.
Secondary
1910, the time Angel Island Immigration Station opened in “KQED : Pacific Link: The KQED Asian Education Initiative: History: Angel Island:
Immigration from Japan.” (n.d.) Public Media for Northern CA.
Retrieved January 17, 2012, from http://www.kqed.org/w/pacificlink/history/angelisland/japan.html
This website provided us with information about the Japanese immigration from Japan to America. It also gave us details about discrimination after
Pearl Harbor.
Armor, J., Wright, P., Hersey, J., & Adams, A. (1988). Manzanar = Ringoen. New York, N.Y.: Times Books.
Manzanar = Ringoen depicts the lifestyle of the relocation center Manzanar. It tells about the people and the way they lived during the WWII when
the Japanese were in internment camps.
Boch, A. (Director). (2004). 9/11 America's concentration camps then ... and now? [Documentary]. USA: Japanese American National Museum.
This video shows life in an internment camp during WWII. The interviews are first hand accounts and give very descriptive information about the Japanese’s
life in camps.
Connell, T. (2002). America's Japanese Hostages. Westport: Praeger.
This novel tells us how Latin American wanted a Japanese free nation during WWII.
Daniels, R., Taylor, S. C., Kitano, H. H., & Arrington, L. J. (1986). Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press.
Daniel’s book is a chronological overview of the Japanese experience. He also has first person account interviews that give us insight into internees’ lives.
Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese - 1942. (n.d.) Museum of the City of San Francisco.
Retrieved December 11, 2011, from http://sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
This site gives newspaper documents from the first six months of 1942 from The San Francisco News.
Eysturlid, L. W. (n.d.). Presidential Power: Executive Order 9066 - Japanese American Internment. In Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.
Retrieved January 3, 2012, from http://issues.abc-clio.com/
This article is addressing the presidential power of the time, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Executive Order 9066.
Fiset, L. (2009). Camp Harmony. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Camp Harmony is based in Seattle and explains the lives and struggles of the Japanese Americans in the Puyallup Assembly Center.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9066 (1942). (n.d.). In Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.
Retrieved January 3, 2012, from http://issues.abc-clio.com/
President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 from 1942.
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen's_Agreement_of_1907
Wikipedia provides a thorough understanding of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.
Harth, E. (2001). Last witnesses: reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans. New York: Palgrave for St. Martin's Press.
This is a book focusing on the emotions, hardships and struggle that the children and women faced living a daily life in the internment camps.
Houston, J., & Houston, J. (1973). Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of the Japanese American during and after the times of the internment camps in WWII.
It also brings up the different issues about United States Wartime Civil Control Administration.
Japanese-American Internment (n.d.). ushistory.org. Retrieved January 6, 2012, from http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp
This website is where we obtained the information of Korematsu vs. The United States which was vital on our website.
Neiwert, D. A. (2005). Strawberry days: how internment destroyed a Japanese American community. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
This book tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community.
Nishimoto, R. S., & Hirabayashi, L. R. (1995). Inside an American concentration camp: Japanese American resistance at Poston, Arizona.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
This book examines the experiences of the internees based on Nishimoto’s wartime reports for a government study of the evacuation and
resettlement process.
Pearl Harbor Attack. (n.d.). American History. Retrieved January 5, 2012, from http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/295250?terms=PearlHarbor
This is a website giving us information on the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Relocating Japanese Americans. (1945). Washington, D.C.: War Relocation Authority.
This book provides us with information on the relocation of Japanese Americans from their houses, to temporary location and then finally to internment
camps where they stayed for years.
Robinson, G. (2001). By order of the president: FDR and the internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
This book uses Roosevelt’s own writings and internal government documents to reveal the president’s central role in making and implementing the internment
and explains not only what the president did but why.
Roxworthy, E. (2008). The spectacle of Japanese American trauma: racial performativity and World War II. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
This book disregards the notion that Japanese Americans were able to go back to normal lifestyles after WWII. It explains the damages it did to
Japanese Americans and how it still has an impact on them today.
Suyemoto, T., & Richardson, S. B. (2007). I call to remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's years of internment. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Toyo Suyemoto was an internment camp survivor. She tells her life story and gives us information about wartime decisions as well as how the
Japanese adjusted to their caged life.
The Japanese Internment: World War II (Overview). (n.d.). In American History. Retrieved December 18, 2011, from http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
This website gives us information about the racist treatment the Japanese immigrants received in American, the evacuation, the interment and the
resettlement after the internment was over. This gives us a brief overview but covers many crucial subjects we studied for our topic.
Tran, A. (2010). The Japanese American Internment: Innocence, Guilt, and Wartime Justice. School Library Journal, 56.11(Professional Collection), 138.
The Japanese American Internment: Innocence, Guilt, and Wartime Justice is an overview of the events that led up to the signing of the
Executive Order 9066, which authorized the relocation of Japanese Americans. It also gives us details about the life in the internment camps and
an examination of the long-term ramifications for the Japanese American community.
Pictures
Photographs of an Episode That Lives in Infamy (n.d.) Retrieved January 2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/arts/design/06lang.html
On this New York Times website we were able to retrieve many of Dorothea Lange’s images of the internment camps. Japanese American Internment
Japanese American Internment (n.d.) Retrieved February 17, 2012 http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic5e.html
Calisphere was a great website providing pictures for our project.
Internment Without Charges: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (n.d.) Retrieved February, 2012
from http://www.worldpress.org/2588.cfm
This was another site that provided Dorthea Lange's images she took during WWII.