Japanese American Internment

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    • The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
    • By: Richard Reeves
    • Narrated by: James Yaegashi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Best-selling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II....

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    • By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese-American internees. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was....

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    • By: John Okada, Ruth Ozeki
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys"....

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    • My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
    • By: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This memoir is told from the heart and mind of a woman now nearly eighty years old who experienced the challenges and wounds of her internment at a crucial point in her development as a young adult....

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    • By: Naomi Hirahara
    • Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
    • Series: A Japantown Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Set in 1944 Chicago, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese-American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II....

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    • The History of the Controversial Decision to Relocate Citizens Across the West Coast
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Even before Congress declared war on Japan the day after Pearl Harbor, the implications for people of Japanese ancestry living in the United States had begun….

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    • One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
    • By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth.....

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    • A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir
    • By: Kiyo Sato
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored to build a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp....

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    • FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
    • By: Greg Robinson
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order....

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    • By: Samira Ahmed
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • Set in a horrifying near-future United States, 17-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom....

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • By: Julie Otsuka
    • Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her house, and matter-of-factly begins to pack...

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    • A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
    • By: Duncan Ryuken Williams
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history....

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    • Heroes of World War II (Alternator Books ®)
    • By: Laura Hamilton Waxman
    • Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • During World War II, the United States was battling Japan. In 1942, the US president signed an executive order, forcing more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes. They would spend the next few years imprisoned in what the government called internment camps....

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    • A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
    • By: Bradford Pearson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West....

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    • The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II
    • By: Andrea Warren
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • One by one, things that Norm and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. Soon, they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind....

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    • By: Sandra Dallas
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 731 ratings
    • During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Christian Kiefer
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam....

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