A research guide for advanced Japanese studies researchers detailing Japan studies resources in English and Japanese.
Digital resources
- Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946 This link opens in a new windowFind demographic information on the persons of Japanese descent who were subjected to forced internment at various US relocation camps. Date range is 1944-1946.
- Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life This link opens in a new windowLearn about daily life in Japanese-American internment camps by reading the 25 daily camp newspapers from 1942-45. Titles include Rohwer Outpost, Poston Chronicle, Gila News Courier, Tulean Dispatch, Granada Pioneer, Minndoka Irrigator, Topaz Times, Manzanar Free Press, Denson Tribune, and Heart Mountain Sentinel.
- Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library This link opens in a new windowSearch President Franklin D. Roosevelt's papers on Japanese American Internment, 1933-1988.
- Personal Justice Denied: Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981 This link opens in a new windowSearch the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses at the 1981 CWRIC: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations and more.
- Japanese American Archival CollectionThe collection was created in 1994 with a gift of photographs, documents and artifacts from the teaching materials of Mary Tsukamoto.The collection owned by California State University, Sacramento Library provides valuable insights into the history of Japanese American communities in northern California, particularly in the town of Florin, California from the late 19th century and into the 20th century. The collection contains significant documentation related to the internment of Japanese born and Japanese American individuals during World War II.
- Japanese Relocation and InternmentA list of resources from NARA on Japanese Relocation and Internment.
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