Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project

Bibliography

Gardiner, C. Harvey. Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States. U. of Washington Press. Seattle & London. 1981.

Best researched resource available. Since Gardiner is trilingual, he was able to do research in archives in US and Peru. His work is the basis for all other books on JPs.

Corbett, P. Scott. Quiet Passages: The Exchange Of Civilians Between the United States and Japan During the Second World War. Kent State U. Press. Kent, Ohio. 1987.

Good resource in the history of the exchange program, with a chapter on the JLA experience.

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy. WM Morrow & Co., New York. 1976.

One of the most significant resources on JA internment. First JA publication to expose JLA wartime experience.

Bernstein, Joan Z. (chair). Personal Justice Denied - Report of Commission on Wartime Relocation & Internment of Civilians. “Latin Americans.” Civil Liberties Public Education Fund & U. of Washington Press. Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle and London. 1997.

Report based on Commission hearings and basis for Civil Liberties Act. Contains materials on JLA internment experience.

Higashide, Seiichi. Adios To Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps. University of Washington Press. Seattle. 2000 (1993).

Moving and insightful autobiography of former JP internee. This second edition of the English version includes a foreward by C. Harvey Gardiner, a new preface by Elsa H. Kudo and epilogue by Julie Small. Japanese version is in 2nd edition (published in 1995) and is more detailed, with expanded section on redress.

Crystal City Internment Camp - 50th Anniversary Album, Monterey, California, 7/94.

Best compilation of resources concerning Crystal City Internment Camp, including JP family stories.

Levine, Ellen. A Fence Away From Freedom. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. New York. 1995.

Very good collection of remembrances of JA and JP, who were children or youth at the time of internment. Highlights little known stories of JP, draft resisters, repatriates.

Masterson, Daniel M. with Sayaka Funada-Classen. The Japanese in Latin America. University of Illinois Press. Champaign. 2004.

First comprehensive study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole. Focuses on Brazil, Mexico and Peru, with a chapter on WWII internment, redress and postwar dekasegi.

Saito, Natsu. Justice Held Hostage: US Disregard For International Law In The WWII Internment Of Japanese Peruvians—A Case Study. Boston College Law Review. 12/98. v. XL no.1.

Examination of the wartime and redress experience of JLAs from the perspective of international law.

More JLA Books & Video

Emmerson, John, The Japanese Thread, A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service, (New York:  Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978).

Fukuda, Rev. Yoshiaki, My Six Years of Internment: An Issei’s Struggle for Justice (San Francisco: Konko Church of San Francisco, 1990, 1957)

Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed., Only What We Could Carry:  The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley:  Heyday Books, 2000).

Riley, Karen Lea, Schools Behind Barbed Wire: The Untold Story of Wartime Internment and the Children of the Arrested Enemy Aliens (New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, 20002)

Ueunten, Wesley, “Japanese Latin American Internment from an Okinawan Perspective,” Okinawan Diaspora, Ronald Y. Nakasone, ed. (Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press, 2002)

Walls, Thomas, The Japanese Texans (San Antonio: The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1987)

Wegars, Priscilla, Golden State Meets Gem State: Californians at Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp, 1943-1945 (Sacramento: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, 2002)

VIDEO

Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story is a documentary available at www.progressivefilms.org that reveals the little known history of the WWII internment of Japanese Latin Americans. The half-hour film centers on the life story of Art Shibayama, who, at age 13, was forcibly deported from his home inPeru with his family and interned in Crystal City, Texas for the purpose of hostage exchange. Art’s commitment to truth and justice inspires the ongoing redress struggle to hold the US government accountable for war crimes and other human rights violations.  Art’s story is particularly relevant today in the post 9-11 context of the “War on Terror,” as parallels can be drawn with current government policies which are having such a devastating impact on our communities and our civil liberties.