japanese

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A pale view of hills

1990
Etsuko, a Japanese women living alone in England, contemplates the recent suicide of her eldest daughter, mingling the tragedy with memories of the devastation of Japan during World War II, and the calamities of her own life.

Adios to tears

the memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian internee in U.S. concentration camps
2000
Seiichi Higashide recounts the experiences he had in a United States concentration camp during World War II, and discusses how the experience has shaped every aspect of his life since then.

The teahouse fire

2006
In late-nineteenth-century Japan, Aurelia Bernard, an American orphan, takes shelter in the Baishian teahouse, where she meets a young woman who defines the next several decades of her life.

Paul Kariya

hockey magician
1998
A biography of this young Japanese-Canadian hockey player who plays for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

The Issei

the world of the first generation Japanese immigrants, 1885-1924
1988

Executive order 9066

the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
1972

Obasan

1994
Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.

East is East

1990
A young Japanese seaman, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the way of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia.

Deep river

1994
Five Japanese tourists travel to the Ganges River in India to find peace and answers to their personal problems.

The eternal spring of Mr. Ito

1994
The fate of a 200-year-old bonsai tree is decided by a young girl and an old Japanese Canadian gardener who resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Sequel to "All the Children Were Sent Away.".

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