japanese americans

Discusses the Japanese American internment during World War II by the American Government.

A collection of animated tales celebrating Asian culture.

Takes a look at the life and career of Asian American Ellison Onizuka who went from being an Air Force pilot to a NASA astronaut.

Text and photographs present the true accounts of children who were forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps.

Jasmine has looked forward to spending Girls Day with her family and best friend, Linnie, but first her sister says she will not participate, and then Jasmine upsets Linnie.

When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

The author shares her experiences as a child when her family was relocated along with other Japanese American citizens during World War II and held for the duration of the war at the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in Colorado.

When their family moves to Japan for a year, two Japanese American children find that they need to make a lot of adjustments.