Discover the History ofWWII Incarceration
120,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated during World War II. Learn about this unprecedented denial of civil liberties and why it still matters today.
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Learn about Japanese American history and the legacy of WWII incarceration by exploring personal stories from those who lived through it.
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Nikkeijin in America: Introducing Densho’s New Japanese-Language Website
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9月24日（水）午後１２時、Denshoの日本語ウェブサイトのリニューアルにあたり、その内容をオンラインで紹介させて頂きたいと存じます。Nikkeijin.densho.orgは、第二次世界大戦中の強制立ち退きと収容を含めた、日本からの移民とそれに続く世代のアメリカ合衆国での経験と歴史を追い、豊富な資料を提供するサイトです。2010年に立ち上げたこのサイトは、日米両国のパートナーからの御協力のもと、より興味深い内容を提供するための努力を重ねてきました。今まで扱っていなかった学術的な題材も含み、アメリカ日系人の歴史をより多くの方々に知って頂きたいと思っております。
Denshoの日本語翻訳およびリサーチ担当者の田邉直子と共に、アメリカ日系人の歴史と、文化を超えた交わりを辿って頂ければと思っております。尚、このイベントは、すべて日本語でおこなわれます。
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Campu: A Podcast
Campu weaves together the voices of survivors to spin narratives out of the seemingly mundane things that gave shape to the incarceration experience: rocks, fences, food, paper. Follow along as hosts Hana and Noah Maruyama move far beyond the standard Japanese American incarceration 101 and into more intimate and lesser-known corners of this history.
Encyclopedia
Thousands of articles about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience. Here are a few to get you started:
Documentary films/videos on incarceration
The following is an attempt at a comprehensive listing of documentary films/videos that include a significant treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II, broken up into several broad categories.
Scene (magazine)
Japanese American pictorial monthly magazine that ran from 1949 to 1955. Largely produced by and for Nisei, Scene magazine highlighted "successful" Japanese Americans as well as Japanese culture.
Owens Valley (detention facility)
The Owens Valley Reception Center—later the Manzanar Reception Center—was the first of the WCCA -administered short-term detention camps to open when the first "volunteers" from the Los Angeles area arrived on March 21, 1942.