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Migration Bibliography: United States

Excerpt from Brian Niiya, Michiko Kodama-Nishimoto, and Eiichiro Azuma, comps., "Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans," in Akemi Kikumura-Yano, ed., Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei (Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002), 295-306.

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Foreword by Tetsuden Kashima. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Report of the Congressional Commission includes a summary of the removal and detention of Japanese Americans during World War II. The original was published by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., in 1982.

Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.

General history of Chinese and Japanese Americans that incorporates much of Daniels’ previous work on the topic.

Duus, Masayo. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and the 442nd. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.

History of the all-Nisei military units in World War II.

Ethnic Studies Oral History Project and United Okinawan Association of Hawaii. Uchinanchu: A History of Okinawans in Hawaii. Honolulu: Ethnic Studies Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1981.

Anthology of works on Okinawans in Hawai`i, along with oral histories of Okinawan Issei.

Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: A Social History. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1981.

Landmark history that made explicit the nature of interracial relations in the Hawaiian society.

Hayashi, Brian Masaru. “For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren”: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1985-1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Study of three very different Issei Christian churches in Los Angeles prior to World War II. Adapted from a doctoral dissertation (University of California, Los Angeles, 1990).

Higa, Karin, ed. The View From Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1992.

Catalogue to a pioneering exhibition of art created by inmates in America’s concentration camps.

Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Examines issues in doing anthropological fieldwork through looking at the life and work of pioneering Nisei anthropologist Tamie Tsuchiyama and her work with the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study.

Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924. New York: The Free Press, 1988.

History of Issei in the western United States. The first to use Japanese language sources to examine events from the perspective of the Issei themselves. Incorporates many previously published articles by Ichioka.

Kikumura, Akemi. Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant Woman. Novato, Calif.: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, 1981.

Widely cited life history of an Issei woman in Central California. Adapted from a doctoral dissertation (University of California, Los Angeles, 1979).

Kitano, Harry H. L. Japanese Americans: The Evolution of a Subculture. 1969. 2nd edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976.

Influential work mixes sociological methods with first person insights in recounting the development of the Japanese American community. Though it has a different title, Generations and Identity: The Japanese American (Needham Heights, Mass.: Ginn Press, 1993) is largely an updated version of the same book.

Maki, Mitchell T., Harry H. L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold. Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, forewords by Robert T. Matsui and Roger Daniels. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Overarching study of the redress movement.

Miyamoto, S. Frank. Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984.

Early and influential study of the Japanese American community in Seattle. Based on a Master’s thesis (University of Washington, 1938). Also published in University of Washington Publications in the Social Sciences 11.2 (Dec. 1939): 57-130, and by the Asian American Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, in 1981.

Nakano, Mei. Japanese American Women: Three Generations, 1890-1990. Berkeley and Sebastopol, Calif.: National Japanese American Historical Society and Mina Press, 1990.

Overarching popular study of Japanese American women.

Niiya, Brian, ed. Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present (updated edition). Foreword by Senator Daniel K. Inouye and introductory essay by Gary Y. Okihiro. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001.

Includes chronology of Japanese American history; brief entries describing events, people, organizations, communities, and terms; a “basic library” on Japanese American literature.

Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

History of Japanese Americans in Hawai`i which makes the case that there was an organized anti-Japanese movement in Hawai`i as on the mainland.

Okinawa Club of America, comp. History of the Okinawans in North America, translated by Ben Kobashigawa. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center and The Okinawa Club of America, 1988.

Anthology of works on Okinawans on the mainland.

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. Updated and rev. ed., 1998.

The most widely read general history of Asian Americans.

Takezawa, Yasuko Iwai. Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Examines the redress movement as a catalyst for a revival in Japanese American ethnic identity. Largely based on oral histories conducted in the Seattle area. Adopted from a doctoral dissertation (University of Washington, 1989).

Bibliography in other languages: 日本語

Historical Overview: United States

Additional Resources: United States

Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration

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