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Citizen 13660 is a book about internment of Japanese Americans written by Miné Okubo. It is a graphic novel completely illustrated by Miné that depicts the life and community within the Japanese internment camps in the United States. Miné was placed in two camps, first Tanforan Assembly Center and then moved to Topaz War Relocation Center.
They Called Us Enemy is a 2019 graphic novel that is a collaboration by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker. It is about his experiences during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II. It is published by Top Shelf Productions.
Miné Okubo (/ ˈ m iː n eɪ /; [4] Japanese: 大久保 ミネ, [5] June 27, 1912 – February 10, 2001) was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her book Citizen 13660, a collection of 198 drawings and accompanying text chronicling her experiences in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
The novel details the adventure of Tomikazu Nakaji, a Japanese American boy, and his family during World War II, when Americans of Japanese descent were being sent to internment camps. Tomi lives in Hawaii , and witnesses the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor .
Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers.
When the Emperor Was Divine is a historical fiction novel written by American author Julie Otsuka about a Japanese American family sent to an internment camp in the Utah desert during World War II. The novel, loosely based on the wartime experiences of Otsuka's mother's family, [ 1 ] is written through the perspective of four family members ...
The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO Without Due Process: A Documentary about America's Concentration Camps: 2001 Brian Beanblossom Valor With Honor [44] 2008
In 2002 she published her first novel, When the Emperor was Divine, which is about the Japanese-American internment camps that took place in 1942-45 during World War II. The story begins in California , where she was born and raised, and it is based on Otsuka's grandfather who was arrested as a suspected spy for Japan the day after Pearl Harbor .