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Education

General

Article in Portuguese, with English abstract.
"Preocupado com a formação de alunos nervosos pela sobrecarga de estudos, governo japonês modificou seu sistema educacional."
Detailed comparison of the educational systems of Brazil and Japan.
"A inserção de alunos estrangeiros no ensino nipônico é bem mais metódica que as práticas comumente adotadas por pais e escolas no Brasil."
This article examines the succession of "Japanese" to the third generation in Nikkei communities.
　The author's childhood experiences with Nisei children and Japanese education.
This is a series of articles about education of children of dekasegi in Japan.
日本にいる出稼ぎの子供達の教育についての記事。(スペイン語)
Brief history of the Japanese community in the Salinas Valley, the school it built to teach Nisei children Japanese language and cultural customs, and efforts to restore the building.
"This report is based on the discussions and findings of the Survey Team during the course of its reserch on Japanese language education in the Pacific Islands Region." Includes useful information about the history of Japanese language education throughout the North and South Pacific.
中学校の歴史学習の中で「沖縄県の歴史学習」をどのように通史に取り込み、英語科と社会化がどのように協力し、共同学習を可能にするかの学びの記録。
"The Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) is a non-profit educational and cultural exchange program for university students from the United States and Japan. It is the oldest student-run exchange program in the United States, beginning with the first JASC in 1934. JASC provides an opportunity for Japanese and American students from diverse backgrounds to extensively discuss issues that affect our two nations. By working together to confront common concerns, our countries can improve mutual understanding, friendship, and trust to strengthen our partnership. As students, we stand in a unique position that permits us to cooperatively observe and participate in contemporary politics and diplomacy. Our student status also facilitates education, about ourselves and also about others. As the leaders of the future, we must begin an active, personal commitment to these goals now."
Educational site; uses the 90th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Brazil as a vehicle for education in arts, history, language, and geography.
Introduction to a special issue of History of Education Quarterly devoted to the history of Asian Americans and education. Includes a brief historical overview of Asian migration into the United States. Refers to three Nikkei-related articles: (1) "Mandating Americanization: Japanese Language Schools and the Federal Survey of Education in Hawai‘i, 1916–1920" by Noriko Asato, which examines the suppression of Japanese language instruction among Hawai'i's Nikkei population; (2) "'The Pacific Era Has Arrived': Transnational Education among Japanese Americans, 1932–41" by Eiichiro Azuma, which examines the education of Kibei, second-generation Japanese Americans who went to Japan to live and study and later returned to the United States; and (3) "Educating Youth in America's Wartime Detention Camps" by Roger Daniels, an essay reviewing several recent publications on education for American Nikkei youth incarcerated during World War II.
"The essays in this issue offer readers new insights in understanding the history of Asian American education. As I discussed at some length in an earlier essay in this journal, there have been many recent studies on Asian American history and on Asian American education, but relatively few scholars on Asian America have turned their attention to both history and education in order to produce works on Asian American educational history. This special issue of the History of Education Quarterly (HEQ) seeks to address this deficiency."
Reports the endowment by Nisei businessman George Aratani of the nation's first academic chair focusing on the Japanese American internment, at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center.


Individuals

  • Alan Nishio
Rick Gloady, "Nishio Receives 2005 Humanitarian Award from NCCJ". Inside CSULB vol. 57, no. 12 (June 15, 2005).
Profile of Alan Nishio, associate vice president for student services at California State University, Long Beach, after receiving the 2005 Humanitarian Ward by the National Conference for Community and Justice. Nishio, a founder and chairperson of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations, was born in the Manzanar internment camp, and played an instrumental role in the campaign for redress.


Nisei Experiences in School

University Student Organizations

Issue of Education among Nikkei in Japan

This is a series of articles about education of children of dekasegi in Japan.
日本にいる出稼ぎの子供達の教育についての記事。(スペイン語)
Research report about "Cross-cultural exchange by Nikkei Brazilian: life and child education" (Japanese only)
Issue of education for the children of Nikkei workers. Available only in Japanese.
Report about children, whoc migrated from Brazil to Japan, by Japanese language teacher, Emilia Tamada. Avilable only in Japanese.
日本語指導教員として活動しているエミリア・玉田さんのブラジルから渡日してきた子どもたちの現状に関するレポート。

Curriculum Guides

see also the Discover Nikkei Lesson Plans database
  • Lesson plan using hole hole bushi (Hawaii Issei's plantation songs) for Grade 4.
  • Lesson plan: Edna Kovacs, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Thiel, "Nihonmachi: Japan Town Remembered" (8th grade). Teaching American History (Portland State University)
  • Lesson plan: "The Pacific Front -- The Military Intelligence Service (MIS)," from the Go For Broke Educational Foundation.

Gender, Sexuality, and Family

  • Teachers' study guide using Velina Hasu Houston's play, Tea, shows how to teach about Japanese war brides and interracial marraiges.
  • 写真花嫁をテーマにした授業プラン A Japanese lesson plan using "picture brides" as a topic for crosscultural understanding. (The Japan Forum)
  • How to teach about Japanese war brides using Velina Hasu Houston's play Kokoro

Incarceration

This lesson plan is created for upper elementary and secondary school students (grades 5-12) to accompany the educational website "In the Shadow of My Country: A Japanese American Artist Remembers", about one Japanese American family's memories of living behind barbed wire during World War II. Lesson plan is also available in Japanese (祖国の影で：日系アメリカ人アーティストの追憶).
"Life Interrupted" is a partnership between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public History Program and the Japanese American National Museum with major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. The Project's mission was to research the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II Arkansas, and educate the citizens of Arkansas and the nation about the two camps at Jerome and Rohwer.
Extensive list of lesson plans for grades K-12, funded by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
  • Smithsonian Institution lesson plan using letters from Japanese American internees to librarian Clara Breed to study letters as primary source documents.
Frank Murphy, Fred Korematsu, and the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
  • Lesson plan: Sandra W. Coleman, "Japanese Internment Camps: A Consequence of War" (8th grade U.S. History)
  • Lesson plan: Amanda Weber-Welch, "Japanese Internment during the Second World War (Canada & US)" (Grades 11-12)
  • Lesson plan: "Japanese American Internment" (grades 11-12). Created for the KQED-TV series, Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco -- The Fillmore.
  • Lesson plan: Oregon Historical Society, "Japanese Internment" (high school).
  • Lesson plan: William Stack, "World War II and Japanese Internment" (grades 9-12, U.S. History).
Excerpt: "The classroom activities described in this paper are designed to engender discussion concerning Japanese American incarceration. Four very different teaching ideas are proposed for addressing various aspects of this topic. Each should stimulate engaging classroom discussions, facilitates a variety of active learning, and provide the basis for challenging student assignments. The purpose of these learning activities is to enable students to understand how institutional racism and racial prejudice, wartime hysteria and failure of political leadership led to the oppression of Japanese Americans. Ultimately, the primary goal of the curriculum is for students and instructors to understand the social and historical forces that led to the policy, so that such policies will not be repeated."
"The Japanese Canadian history web site is a companion to resource books developed with a Networks Grant from the Ministry of Education on the internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942 to 1949 and the attainment of redress in 1988. 'Internment and Redress: The Story of Japanese Canadians' is a resource guide for teachers of grade 5 Social Studies, and 'Internment and Redress: The Japanese Canadian Experience' is a resource guide for Social Studies 11 teachers. The website was developed to provide organizational support to social studies teachers and students in the K-12 school system in British Columbia."
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