We Came to North America: The Japanese

Greg Nickles, 2001

This book for younger readers starts off with a brief recap of Japanese immigration and the internment camps. It next goes into a history of Japan itself, how the immigrants settled in, picture brides and the kinds of jobs the immigrants worked.

There are also occasional first-person accounts which are a plus.

The book then goes into the anti-Japanese feeling prior to WWII, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Nisei who served in the U.S. military. After that it talks more about the internment camps and what came after, then concludes with information on Japanese culture and festivals and some of the present-day Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians.

This is a thin but still extremely good book for younger readers and will serve as an excellent introduction to the history of Japanese-Americans.



Main Index
Japan main page
Japanese-American Internment Camps index page
Japan and World War II index page