THE HAWAI'I NISEI STORY
Americans of Japanese Ancestry During WWII

Connell, Thomas. America’s Japanese Hostages: The World War II Plan for a Japanese Free Latin America. Praeger Studies on Ethnic and National Identities in Politics Series. Westport, CN: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002.

Connell uncovers a little known World War II top secret program. The United States demanded that Latin American governments deport - or allow the United States to take - anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in camps in Texas and New Mexico. The plan was to trade them for American civilians held by the Japanese. Peru was the most enthusiastic participant in this program, expelling nearly 5,000 Peruvian citizens of Japanese ancestry.

Tateishi, John. And Justice For All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. University of Washington Press, 1999.

In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Tateishi allows thirty Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves. And Justice for All captures the personal feelings and experiences of the only group of American citizens ever to be confined in concentration camps in the United States. In this new edition of the book, which was originally published in 1984, an Afterword by the author brings up to date the lives of those he interviewed.
Includes four veterans of 442nd RCT on pp. 120 23, 157 67, 176 85 and 250 59.

Lange, Dorothy. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. Norton, W.W. & Company, Inc., 2006.

This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army - the majority of which have never been published - Impounded evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps.
With poignancy and sage insight, nationally known historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro illuminate the saga of Japanese American internment: from life before Executive Order 9066 to the abrupt roundups and the marginal existence in the bleak, sandswept camps.

Irons, Peter H. Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

Justice at War covers one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history - the internment during World War II of American citizens of Japanese descent. Peter Irons' exhaustive research has uncovered a government campaign of suppression, alteration, and destruction of crucial evidence that could have persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the internment order. Irons documents the debates that took place before the internment order and the legal response during and after the internment.

Subject(s): Internment

Armor, John and Peter Wright. Manzanar. Photographs by Ansel Adams. Commentary by John Hersey. New York: Times Books, 1988.

This book describes the relocation of Japanese Americans in World War II. Specific attention is devoted to Manzanar in the form of 100 photographs taken by Ansel Adams in 1943. The photos hint at suffering but more clearly reveal Americans who maintained their dignity and patriotism during harsh trials

Hosokawa, Bill. Nisei: The Quiet Americans. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002.

Long-time Denver Post reporter and editor Hosokawa draws on research as well as his own and others' experiences to describe the decisions that led to the establishment of "relocation" camps, to recount what life in the camps was like and how people felt about it, and to itemize some of the achievements of Japanese-Americans since WWII, and government efforts to rectify history with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and presidential apologies. Numerous black & white photos support the text.

Hosokawa, Bill. Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1998.

From vividly recollected experience, Out of the Frying Pan is a fresh, personal account of one the greatest injustices in 20th-century U.S. History. Bill Hosokawa, a journalist of Japanese descent, tells how he, his wife, and their infant child were herded into a U.S. World War II relocation camp in Wyoming. Hosokawa offers his insights on the gradual re-assimilation of the Japanese American community into the mainstream of American life after the bitterness of interment.

Niewert, David A. Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. David Neiwert combines compelling story-telling with first-hand interviews and newly uncovered documents to weave together the history of this community and the racist schemes that prevented the immigrants from reclaiming their land after the war.

Weglyn, Michi Nishiura. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps. University of Washington Press, 1995.

In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were Originally published in 1976, this expanded edition of the history of the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII features additional resource guides.