japanese americans

Sixth-grader Akiko makes another visit to the planet Smoo, but on the way she passes through a time warp that sends her back twenty-five years.

Examines the history of Japanese immigration to the United States, discussing why the Japanese came, what their lives were like after they arrived, where they settled, and customs they brought from home.

Provides information on the Japanese American internment in the United States and the differing perspectives accompanying it.

With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.

In 1943 Oregon, eleven-year-old Hazel befriends a fifteen-year-old Japanese-American orphan boy she discovers hiding from internment on her neighbor's farm.

Relates the life and experiences of the Japanese American who defied the order of internment during World War II and took his case as far as the Supreme Court.

Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America; but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese-American boy becomes strained.

Biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how it has influenced her life.

Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Text and accompanying photographs present a biography of the young Japanese-American skater who won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.