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Japanese Americans

The Internment of the Japanese

Diane Yancey

This book discusses the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp

Diane Yancey

Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps.

Samurai of Gold Hill

Yoshiko Uchida

Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.

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Uchida

Silent Honor

Danielle Steel

Eighteen-year-old Hiroko comes to California in 1941 to attend college at Berkley, but even her love for teaching assistant Peter Jenkins cannot keep her from longing for home.

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The Japanese in America

Noel L. Leathers

A history of the Japanese in America: their backgrounds, why they immigrated, the prejudice encountered in peace and wartime and their contributions to their adopted nation.

301.453
LEA

Executive Order 9066

Maisie Conrat

940.54
CON

I Am an American

Jerry Stanley

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, nearly 120,000 Americans were imprisoned by the federal government.

940.53
STA

Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp

Diane Yancey

Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps.

940.53
YAN

Samurai of Gold Hill

Yoshiko Uchida

Seeking a new life in nineteenth-century California with his samurai father, a young Japanese finds it difficult to adjust to the idea of being a farmer and not a samurai.

Fic
Uchida

Silent Honor

Danielle Steel

Eighteen-year-old Hiroko comes to California in 1941 to attend college at Berkley, but even her love for teaching assistant Peter Jenkins cannot keep her from longing for home.

FIC
STE
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