Resources for

Resources for “When the Emperor was Divine” and Japanese Internment

Web Resources

http://www.asiasource.org/arts/julieotsuka.cfm
Interview with the Author
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2005/09/20050914_17.asp
Interview with the Author
http://bellevuecollege.edu/lmc/divine/BCC_Reads_Emperor.html
Bellvue Community College resources on the book
http://www.nps.gov/manz/
National Park Service on the Manzanar National Historic Site
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm
Photographs of two internment camps
http://www.densho.org/
Website of Densho-Japanese American Legacy Project
http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=63451
Special report from Asia Source-a resource of the Asia Society
http://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/
U S government archives relating to Japanese Internment
http://www.kcet.org/californiaatwar/ourselves.php
California Public Television Program "California at War-The War Against Ourselves"

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/
PBS “Children of the Camps” documentary
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5153
War Relocation Authority justification of internment camps
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.htm
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco-news articles from 1942
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/default.html
University of Washington Libraries Japanese American Exhibit
http://www.itvs.org/facetoface/intro.html
Independent Television Service-program on what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy
http://www.lifeinterrupted.org/
University of Arkansas information on Arkansas camps
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/
University of California Japanese American Relocation Archives, Photographs, letters and diaries
http://spice.stanford.edu/clearinghouse/iguides/internment.php
Stanford University Program on Japanese-American internment

Articles about the internment

Listening to 'Miss Jamison': Lessons from the Schoolhouse at a Japanese Internment Camp, Rohwer Relocation Center.

Relates the experience of teacher Mabel Rose Vogel in living at Rohwer Relocation Center in Desha County, Arkansas

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We Were Hungry; We Were Starved.

Marie Adams discusses her experience as a U.S. citizen inside a Japanese prison camp during wartime, and her fears that she may starve to death.

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Battle Scars: Decades On, a Legacy Of War Still Haunts Japanese-Americans --- Many Ex-Internees Shunned Nisei Who Fought Draft; Now, a Revisionist Push --- `Is That a Time to Resist?'
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=42651708&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientId=16773&RQT=309&VName=PQD
The “Opposing Viewpoints” database has a number of articles on internment, the 1988 Presidential apology and reparation issues.

Selective Books and other Resources from the MCC Libraries

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.

	The art of gaman : arts and crafts from the Japanese American internment camps, 1942-1946 Hirasuna, Delphine, 1946- Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2005. NK839.3.J32 H57 2005 [MCC only]
	Behind barbed wire : the story of Japanese-Americans internment during World War II Perl, Lila. New York : Benchmark Books, 2003. D769.8.A6 P47 2003
	Japanese American internment camps Dudley, William, 1964- San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2002. D769.8.A6 J3625 2002 [MCC only]
	Jewel of the desert : Japanese American internment at Topaz Taylor, Sandra C. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. D769.8.A6 T39 1993 ***
	Korematsu v. United States : Japanese-American internment Gold, Susan Dudley. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2006. KF228.K59 G65 2006 [MCC only]
	Last witnesses : reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans Harth, Erica. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, c2001. D769.8.A6 L37 2003 [MCC only]
	Life in a Japanese American internment camp Yancey, Diane. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, 1998. D769.8.A6 Y36 1998
	Only what we could carry : the Japanese American internment experience Inada, Lawson Fusao. Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books ; San Francisco, Calif. : D769.8.A6 O55 2000 [MCC only]
	Racial profiling Kops, Deborah. New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2007. HV8141 .K677 2007 ***
	Reporting World War II New York, NY : Library of America, 1995. PN4867 .R47 1995 Pt. 1 ***
	Rising sons : the Japanese American GIs who fought for the United States in World War II Yenne, Bill, 1949- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. D769.31 442nd .Y37 2007 [MCC only]
	Strawberry days : how internment destroyed a Japanese American community Neiwert, David I. New York, NY : Palgrave McMillian, c2005
	True West : authenticity and the American West (e-book) "Cameras and photographs were not permitted in the camps" : photographic documentation and distortion in Japanese American internment narratives / Melody Graulich Handley, William R.Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ***