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This project is informed by decades of research, advocacy, and stewardship by individuals and organizations dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Japanese American incarceration.
Digital Archives
Densho: A digital archive of videotaped interviews, photographs, documents, and other materials relating to the Japanese American experience. Additional information on the project is available at www.densho.org.
Japanese American National Museum Collections: A digital archive of artifacts, oral histories, photographs, and other materials documenting the incarceration experience and broader Japanese American history. Additional information on the collection is available at www.janm.org.
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: A digital collection of letters, photographs, official documents, and other materials related to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Additional information on the project is available at www.calisphere.org.
Library of Congress: Japanese American Internment Collection: A digital archive of government reports, letters, photographs, and other materials documenting the history of Japanese American incarceration. Additional information on the collection is available at www.loc.gov.
National Archives and Records Administration Catalog: A digital repository of official U.S. government records related to Japanese American incarceration, including War Relocation Authority documents, camp rosters, military service records, and other materials. Additional information on the collection is available at www.archives.gov.
Pilgrimage Committees and Organizations
Amache Alliance
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center
Jerome & Rohwer Pilgrimage
JAMP Pilgrimage to Topaz
Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages
Manzanar Committee
Minidoka Pilgrimage
Poston Preservation
Tule Lake Committee
Referenced Works
American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II (2007, Eric L. Muller)
Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei (2001, Minoru Kiyota)
Block Seventeen (2020, Kimiko Guthrie)
Citizen 13660 (1946, Miné Okubo)
Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (1999, Jeffery F. Burton et al.)
Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family (1982, Yoshiko Uchida)
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (2021, Daniel James Brown)
Farewell to Manzanar (1973, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston)
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II (2015, Richard Reeves)
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (2006, Linda Gordon & Gary Y. Okihiro)
Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases (1983, Peter Irons)
No-No Boy (1957, John Okada)
Nisei Daughter (1953, Monica Sone)
Obasan (1981, Joy Kogawa)
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (2000, Edited by Lawson Fusao Inada)
Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (1982, U.S. Government)
Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (1993, Roger Daniels)
Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration (2020, Shirley Ann Higuchi)
Silver Like Dust: One Family’s Story of America’s Japanese Internment (2012, Kimi Cunningham Grant)
Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II (1999, Gary Y. Okihiro)
The Afterlife is Letting Go (2023, Brandon Shimoda)
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (2005, Delphine Hirasuna)
The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America (2021, Bradford Pearson)
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (2024, Frank Abe)
They Called Us Enemy (2019, George Takei)
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps (1976, Michi Nishiura Weglyn)
When the Emperor Was Divine (2002, Julie Otsuka)
Referenced Films
American Pastime (2007, Desmond Nakano)
And Then They Came for Us (2017, Abby Ginzberg & Ken Schneider)
Children of the Camps (1999, Satsuki Ina)
The Cats of Mirikitani (2006, Linda Hattendorf)
Day of Independence (2003, Chris Tashima)
Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990, Steven Okazaki)
Farewell to Manzanar (1976, John Korty)
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991, Rea Tajiri)
Pilgrimage (2006, Tadashi Nakamura)
Rabbit in the Moon (1999, Emiko Omori)
This project was previously titled: “Campu: An American Story.”