The literature of Japanese American incarceration

Preface / Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung --

Part I : Before camp --

Introduction to part i --

Arrival and community --

Arrival in San Francisco / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama --

The Turlock incident / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama --

Whither immigrants / Ayako Ishigaki (as Haru Matsui) --

Lil' Yokohama / Toshio Mori --

Arrest and alien internment --

Those airplanes outside aren't ours / Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota --

1941 (Showa 16) / Kamekichi Tokita --

I must be strong / John Okada (as Anonymous) --

Arrest / Bunyu Fujimura --

They took our father too / Fujiwo Tanisaki --

Fort Sill internment camp / Otokichi Ozaki (as Muin Ozaki) --

Sand Island and Santa Fe internment camps / Yasutaro Soga (as Keiho Soga) --

I can't bear to be stigmatized as 'potentially dangerous' / Iwao Matsushita --

Cooperation and refusal --

Executive order --

Has the Gestapo come to America? / James Omura --

Decision to cooperate / Mike Masaoka --

Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry --

Why I refuse to register for evacuation / Gordon K. Hirabayashi --

Kicked out of Berkeley / Charles Kikuchi --

Part II : The camps --

Introduction to part ii --

Fairgrounds and racetracks --

Life in Camp Harmony / Monica Sone --

Curfew / Mitsuye Yamada --

Resolution and readiness, confusion and doubt / Portland senryū poets --

Lover's lane / Yoshio Abe --

Deserts and swamps --

Recommendations to Milton Eisenhower, director, war relocation authority --

Fry bread / Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey --

Barracks home / Toyo Suyemoto --

That damned fence / Authorship uncertain --

I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country / Kiyo Sato --

Gila relocation center song / Masae Wada --

The unpleasantness of the year / Cherry Tanaka --

Alice hasn't come home / Hiroshi Nakamura --

The martyrs of Camp Manzanar / Joe Kurihara --

The paper / Iwao Kawakami --

Send back the father of these American citizens / Nao Akutsu --

Registration and segregation --

Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry --

We respectfully ask for immediate answers / Topaz Resident Committee --

The factual causes and reasons why I refused to register / Kentaro Takatsui --

Loyalty / Sada Murayama --

Cincinnati / Mitsuye Yamada --

Confidential statement to Dillon Myer, director, war relocation authority --

This is like going to prison / Kazuo Kawai (as Ryōji Hiei) --

The army takes control / Noboru Shirai --

Several brethren arrested after marital law was declared at Tule Lake in November 1943 / Hyakuissei Okamoto --

Brother's imprisonment / Violet Kazue de Cristoforo --

Hunger strike / Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye --

Geta / Bunichi Kagawa --

Volunteers and the draft --

A lonely and personal decision / Minoru Masuda --

The activation of Company K / Tamotsu Shibutani --

She is my mother, and I am the son who volunteered / Toshio Mori --

Father of volunteers / Jōji Nozawa --

Petition to President Roosevelt / Fuyo Tanagi and the Mothers Society of Minidoka --

Fair play committee / Yoshito Kuromiya --

We hereby refuse... in order to contest the issue / Frank Emi and the Fair Play Committee --

Song of Cheyenne / Eddie Yanagisako and Kenroku Sumida --

Resegregation and renunciation --

An act to provide for loss of United States nationality under certain circumstances --

Wa shoi wa shoi, the emergence of the 'headband' group / Noboru Shirai --

Badges of honor / Motomu Akashi --

Japs they are, citizens or not / Joe Kurihara --

Starting from Loomis... again / Hiroshi Kashiwagi --

Part III : After camp --

Introduction to part iii --

Resettlement and reconnection --

The year is 2045 / James Takeda (as Bean Takeda) --

Internment camp psychology / David Mura --

Returning home / Shizue Iwatsuki --

Topaz, Utah / Toyo Suyemoto --

We, the dangerous / Janice Mirikitani --

December 7 always brings Christmas early / Amy Uyematsu --

Your hands guide me through trains / Brian Komei Dempster --

1942: in response to executive order 9066, my father, sixteen, takes / Christine Kitano --

Redress --

An appeal for action to obtain redress for the World War II evacuation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans / Shosuke Sasaki and the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee --

Personal justice denied, part 2: recommendations --

The complaint / William Minoru Hohri --

Coram Nobis press conference / Jeanne Sakata --

Letter from the White House --

No redress / Traci Kato-Kiriyama --

Repeating history --

Evacuation, the sequel / Perry Miyake --

Do we really need to relearn the lessons of Japanese American internment? / Fred Korematsu --

We have been here before / Brandon Shimoda --

Theses on the philosophy of history / Brynn Saito --

Never again is now / Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki.