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This book relays the factual details of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese-American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

Offers an alternate history of World War II, in which the Japanese Empire takes over the Hawaiian islands, forcing soldiers into POW camps and striking terror throughout the United States.

The diversity that is modern Japan is faithfully reflecting in this sampling of fascinating and fundamental word, customs and concepts.

a kaleidoscopic approach that conveys the infinite variety of words, customs and concepts that make up contemporary Japan.