THE JAPANESE "THREAT"
MOVING TOWARDS INTERNMENT

II. LESSON PLAN: RESOURCES

1. HANDOUTS
   
   Trial introduction & Role Assignments
   Role Sheet: Judges
   Role sheet: Media
   Role Sheet: Witness
   Trial: Self Grading Sheet
   Essay Assignment
   
   
2. HOTLIST OF LINKS ABOUT JAPANESE INTERNMENT
   
   http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listkorematsbe.html
   
   
3. VIDEO / DVD

   “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights”, a 60 minute documentary directed by Eric Paul Fornier, tells the story of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu. A PBS/P.O.V. production in conjunction with the National Asian American Telecommunications Association
   http://www.naatanet.org/index.html
   Accompanying website: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/ofcivilwrongsandrights/

4. BOOKS FROM THE CA RECOMMENDED LITERATURE (K-12)
   http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/

Titles include:

• Baseball saved us by Ken Mochizuki (reading level 4.1)
  A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. Together, he and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and establish a baseball league in the grim surroundings of the camp. His ability to play the game and resolve to do his best help him after the war is over as well.
  
  
• Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo (young adult)
  A Berkeley artist recounts, in words and through ink drawings, her experiences as an interned Japanese American during World War II. The political influence of the historical period is presented clearly and without editorial interpretation. California author/illustrator.
  
  
• Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (reading level 6-8) Along with 10,000 other Japanese Americans, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki grew up behind barbed wire, under searchlight towers, and with armed guards. Life in the Japanese internment camps of World War II is portrayed in this balanced, historically accurate account.
  
  
• I am an American: a true story of Japanese internment by Jerry Stanley (6-8) The life of a young man and his family is followed as they are uprooted by the 1941 internment of Japanese Americans. This selection combines powerful photographs with clearly written text and is useful in units on multicultural understanding, immigrants, and racism and prejudice in our history. California author.
  
  
• Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida (5-8)
  After being released from an internment camp, a Japanese American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst a community's anti-Japanese sentiments. Human rights violations are depicted in this sequel to Journey to Topaz. The book can easily be used for character education. California author.
  
  
• Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida (5-8)
  Eleven-year-old Japanese American Yuki has plans for Christmas in 1941. But those plans are abruptly altered as Japanese living on the West Coast are labeled enemy aliens and her father is arrested by the FBI. Yuki, her mother, and her older brother are incarcerated - first in a horse stall and then in a barbed-wire enclosed camp in the Utah desert. California author.
  
  
• And justice for all: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps by John Tateishi (adult) The Japanese American evacuation and relocation from 1942 to 45, during World War II, is portrayed in this collection of thirty personal narratives about this troublesome time in America's past.
  
  
• Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson (adult)
  Bound by love, but torn between two cultures, Hatsue and Ishmael struggle to make sense of the world in their small, isolated Pacific Northwestern community. Against the backdrop of World War II and the Japanese internment camp experience, this novel explores issues of racial bias, hatred, love, and loyalty. This book was published for an adult readership and thus contains mature content.
  
  
• Under the blood red sun by Graham Salisbury (reading level 5.8)
  This novel depicts 1941 Hawaii through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old Japanese American boy, Tomi Nakaji, as he struggles with the racism, violence, and hardship that arise when his father and grandfather are wrongfully arrested after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The language used in the book and the emotional intensity of the story aptly reflect the theme and setting.

Other noteworthy titles

• Children of Topaz: based on a classroom diary by Michael Tunnell (interest level young adult)
  The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during WWII.
  
  
• Japanese-American internment in American history by David Fremon (r.l. 8.9)
  Includes personal accounts to describe the period in American history when Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps; also, discusses the issues and controversy surrounding the decision.
  
  
• Thin wood walls by David Patneaude (reading level 2.9, interest 5-8)
  Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice in their Seattle community after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and are eventually torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the US Army to fight in WWII.

5. WORLD WIDE WEB DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES

• Why few Hawaii Japanese were interned
  The Japan Times: Dec. 8, 2004
• In Defense of Internment Documents by Michelle Malkin.
• Office of Naval Intelligence, "Japanese Tokyo Club Syndicate, With Interlocking Affiliations," December 24, 1941
  page 1, page 2, page 3
• Army G-2, "Japanese Espionage," January 21, 1942
  page 1, page 2, page 3
• Understanding Terrorism Cases
  The Role of Federal Courts in Balancing Liberties and Safety
  Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
• Lincoln's Crackdown Suspects jailed. No charges filed. Sound familiar?
  By David Greenberg, Slate Magazine, Nov. 30, 2001
• HABEAS CORPUS. Give me a body!
  http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/habeus.htm
• London Goes to War, 1939
  http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/london1939.htm
• A Boy at War: This is an account of my experiences as a 10 year old boy in the south of England at the start of WW II in 1939.
  http://www.battle-of-britain.com/BoB2
  /General/stories/a_boy_at_war.htm
• Army Says Alarm Real
  http://www.rense.com/ufo/battleofla.htm
• Ginger's Diary
  http://www.gingersdiary.com/diary3.html