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1) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
2) Dash
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
3) Grenade
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare. They have been attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate. Now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy Japanese American resort owner in a small, sleepy Oregon coastal town becomes the prime target of an angry mob, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Ruby Opal Pearl "Jewels" Stokes comes to his defense.
8) The edge of terror: the heroic story of American families trapped in Japanese-occupied Philippines
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
9) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts in the fog is the first narrative nonfiction book for young adults to tell the riveting story of how the Japanese invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. This fascinating little-known piece of American history is told from the point of view of the American civilians who were captured and taken prisoner, along with the American and Japanese soldiers who fought in one of the bloodiest battles of hand-to-hand...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the experiences of Japanese American children who were moved with their families to relocation centers during World War II, looking at school, meals, sports, and other aspects of camp life.
12) Don't blow yourself up: the further true adventures and travails of the Rocket Boy of October sky
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 401 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 594 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Douglas MacArthur (1880?1964) remains a controversial figure in World War II history. Brilliant, egocentric, and at times deceitful, he was both an adept strategist and a blatant self-promoter. Borneman chronicles MacArthur's career from its beginning through the Japanese surrender in 1945. Throughout, readers understand what made MacArthur "tick"?his personality, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as a picture of the general's reception and reputation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1963.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Redoubtable middle-aged Kazu falls hopelessly in love with Yuken Noguchi, idealist politician of the Radical Party. The problem is, Noguchi cannot see practical politics for what it is: a form of ideological prostitution. Kazu, who has come up in the world the hard way, bears no illusions - Noguchi, for all his bookish wisdom, has a lot of them. Kazu is the proprietor of a Setsugoan, an After-Snow-Retreat, where she is in the habit of entertaining...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as "Invitation-Only Zones"--the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The book presents accounts of heroism and honor as told by World War II veterans Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum--whose exploits were featured in the HBO mini-series The Pacific--and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division. These Marines trace the action from the Pearl Harbor attack and intense boot camp training through battles with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa, to their return...
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xlii, 764 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Next Generation Mobile Broadcasting provides an overview of the past, present, and future of mobile multimedia broadcasting. The first part of the book-Mobile Broadcasting Worldwide-summarizes next-generation mobile broadcasting technologies currently available. This part covers the evolutions of the Japanese mobile broadcasting standard ISDB-T One-Seg, ISDB-Tmm and ISDB-TSB; the evolution of the South Korean T-DMB mobile broadcasting technology AT-DMB;...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (approximately 12 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + workbook CD.
Language
English
Description
"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
Author
Publisher
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 453 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
INTRODUCTIONHow I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy Who Was the Greatest Spy of World War II? AMERICAN STORIESDid Roosevelt Know? Pearl Harbor and the Inadequacy of Cryptanalysis Appendix: A Japanese CryptosystemThe Woman Who Made the Key DiscoveryHow the United States Viewed Germany and Japan in 1941Roosevelt, Magic, and UltraEdward Bell and His Zimmermann Telegram MemorandaCryptology and the Origins of Spread Spectrum Secret Telephone in the...
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