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The following are literary works on or related to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Novels and memoirs

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  • Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps (1993)[1] - Seiichi Higashide - ISBN 9780295979144
  • A Bridge Between Us[2] - Julie Shigekuni - ISBN 978-0385482271
  • Citizen 13660 (1946) - Miné Okubo - ISBN 978-0295993546
  • City in the Sun (1946) - Karon Kehoe - ISBN 9781125751763
  • Desert Exile (1982) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-0295961903
  • The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami (1995) - ed. Claire Gorfinkel - ISBN 0964804212
  • Dusty Exile: Looking Back at Japanese Relocation in World War II (1999) - Catherine Embree Harris - ISBN 978-1566472753
  • Farewell to Manzanar (1973) - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - ISBN 978-0307976079
  • Hawaii, End of the Rainbow[3] - Kazuo Miyamoto
  • Home Again[4] - James Edmiston
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) - Jamie Ford
  • I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment (2007) - Suyemoto - ISBN 9780813540726
  • Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years (1967)[5] - Daisuke Kitagawa
  • Journey to Topaz (1971) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-1890771911
  • Journey Home (1978) - Yoshiko Uchida - ISBN 978-0689716416
  • The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp: the Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi (1973) - ISBN 9780252062834
  • The Legend of Fire Horse Woman (2003) - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - ISBN 978-0-7582-0455-4
  • Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawai'i Issei (2007) - Yasutaro Soga
  • Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (2005)[6] - Mary Matsuda Gruenewald - ISBN 978-0-939165-58-2
  • Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 (1997) - ISBN 0804727333
  • The Moved-Outers (1945) - Florence Crannell Means
  • Nisei Daughter - Monica Sone
  • No-No Boy - John Okada
  • Picture Bride (1987) - Yoshiko Uchida
  • Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita (2011) - ed. Barbara Johns - ISBN 0295991003
  • Silent Honor (1996) - Danielle Steele - ISBN 0440224055
  • Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower (2003) - Carl Nomura - ISBN 0970194730
  • Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) - David Guterson
  • Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings (2005) - Hiroshi Kashiwagi - ISBN 978-0934609159
  • Tradition[7] - Anne Emery
  • Tule Lake (1979) - Edward Miyakawa - ISBN 9781553698449
  • Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir (1981) - Noboru Shirai - ISBN 9780971610804
  • Under the Blood Red Sun (1995) - Graham Salisbury
  • What the Scarecrow Said (1996)[8] - Stewart David Ikeda
  • When the Emperor was Divine (2002) - Julie Otsuka
  • Why She Left Us[9] - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

Children's and young adult books

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References

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  1. ^ Norm Masaji Ibuki. "Book Review: Adios to Tears," (September 21, 2011) DiscoverNikkei.org. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  2. ^ "A Bridge Between Us (book)," Densho Encyclopedia
  3. ^ "Hawaii, End of the Rainbow (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  4. ^ "Home Again (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  5. ^ "Issei and Nisei: The Internment Years (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Looking Like the Enemy website. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  7. ^ "Tradition (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  8. ^ Donna Kato. "The Winter of Content: Fiction: What the Scarecrow Said, by Stewart David Ikeda," (June 30, 1996) Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  9. ^ "Why She Left Us (book)," Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  10. ^ The Girl with Hair Like the Sun website
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