Resources to Learn More

OVERVIEW OF JAPANESE AMERICAN IMPRISONMENT

  • Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2003.

HISTORY OF HAWAIIAN JAPANESE IMPRISONMENT

  • Okawa, Gail. Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai`i's Japanese in World War II. Honolulu, University of Hawai`i Press, 2020.

  • Saiki, Patsy Sumie. Ganbare! An Example of Japanese Spirit. Honolulu, Kisaku, Inc., 1982

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

  • Fukuda, Rev. Yoshiaki. My Six Years of Internment: An Issei's Struggle for Justice. San Francisco, Konko Church of San Francisco, 1980.

  • Furuya, Suikei. An Internment Odyssey. Honolulu, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai`i, 2017.

  • Honda, Gail, editor. Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin Ozaki Family. Honolulu, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai`i, 2012.

  • Hoshida, George and Tamae; Kim, Heidi, editor. Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story, 1912-1945. Boulder, University Press of Colorado, 2015.

  • Soga, Yasutaro. Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai`i Issei. Honolulu, University of Hawai`i Press, 2008.

POEMS AND INSCRIPTIONS

  • Egan, Charles. Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

  • Nakano, Jiro, and Kay Nakano, editors. Poets Behind Barbed Wire. Honolulu, Bamboo Ridge Press, 1983.

FILM (IN PROGRESS)

  • Katayanagi, Claudia. Exiled: The Real Internment Story

AIISF's Taken From Their Families: Japanese American Incarceration During World War II, co-curated by Grant Din, Edward Tepporn (AIISF), and Casey Dexter-Lee (AISP); contributing research by Marissa Shoji; exhibition design by Russell Nauman (AIISF), 2021.

This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.

Special Thanks
Angel Island State Park, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, National Japanese American Historical Society, Japanese American National Museum, and Densho