Japanese in America

This is a book for young people covering a brief history of Japan, Japanese immigration to the U.S., the internment camps and after, and Japanese in America today. It has some very interesting tidbits, including one example of an immigration that tried to get a haircut and was denied, the barber driving him out of the barber shop.

They get into the definition battle, saying that relocation camps and internment camps were different, and that the Japanese that were a threat to national security were put into camps in North dakota, Nebraska and Texas.

One of the things they have that most similar books don't is a page on Japanese movies as seen in the U.S., including The Seven Samurai (which was the model for The Magnificent Seven), the horror movies The Ring and The Grudge (watch the Japanese versions of both movies; they are much better than the American remakes), and Hayao Miyazaki's films such as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle (both of which are really good. )They also mention Princess Mononoke. (Another one is probably the most upsetting and saddest Japanese animated movie I have ever seen, which is Grave of the Fireflies.)

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