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Reference Books

Go for broke : a pictorial history of the Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442d Regimental Combat Team by Chester Tanaka
Call Number: SPEC D769.31 100TH .T36 1982
This book can be used as a primary source for information on the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II. It includes direct quotes from veterans, over 240 photographs, and nine military maps.
Boyhood to war : history and anecdotes of the 442nd RCT by Dorothy Matsuno
Call Number: SPEC D769.31 442d .M38 1992
This book gives an oral, first person, historical account of the experiences from men in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team from the time they were interned, the reasons why they decided to join the US Army, and their wartime experiences.

The following reference, non-fiction, and fiction resources can be checked out at the UHWO Library's Circulation Desk with a valid UHWO ID card:

"I can never forget" : men of the 100th/442nd by Thelma Chang
Call Number: SPEC D769.31 100th .C43 1991
This book can be used as a primary source for direct quotations and images of the men who were in the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Non-Fiction Books

Silent warriors : a memoir of America's 442nd Regimental Combat Team by Jack Wakamatsu
Call Number: H/P D769.31.442D W35 1992
The author was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. His personal story helps readers understand the struggle Japanese-Americans faced trying to prove their loyalty to the United States of America, which, for many people in that unit, could only be achieved with the sacrifice of their own lives.
Japanese eyes, American heart : personal reflections of Hawaii's World War II Nisei soldiers by Compiled by the Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board
Call Number: H/P D753.8 .J37 1998
This book collects the personal thoughts written by the soldiers themselves that were recorded in diaries and letters sent home to family members and friends.
And then there were eight : the men of I Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, World War II by 442nd Veterans Club
Call Number: SPEC D769.31 442d .A52 2003
This book is full of memoirs from the men of Company I, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Most of them are told by the surviving men themselves and a few of them are told by their family members or friends.

Fiction Books

Anshu: Dark Sorrow by Juliet Kono
Call Number: H/P PS571.H3 B35 no.97
Publication Date: 2010
In 1941, Hilo native Himiko Aoki gets pregnant and is forced to live with relatives in Hiroshima. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, she is unable to return home with the outbreak of war between the US and Japan.
All I asking for is my body by Milton Murayama
Call Number: H/P PS3563.U723 A79 1988
Publication Date: 1988
This book is a coming of age tale that uses both English and Hawaiian Creole English or Pidgin to tell the story of one family's life on a sugar cane plantation leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and its aftermath.
No-No Boy by John Okada
Call Number: H/P PS3565.K3 N6 1976
Publication Date: 1976
Ichiro Yamada and his family were sent to a relocation camp during World War II. He was given an opportunity to join the US Army, but he refused and was sent to prison since doing so was considered to be disloyal to America. The story picks up after he is released, and he has to deal with the social stigma of being a "No No Boy."

Featured Resource: Breaking the Silence

This is a collection of articles authored by University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu faculty:

"Ka iʻa hāmau leo: silences that speak volumes for Honouliuli" by Leilani Basham

"Neither aliens nor enemies : the hearings of "German" and "Italian" internees in wartime Hawaiʻi" by Alan Rosenfeld

"Honouliuli's POWs : making connections, generating changes" by Suzanne Falgout

"Transnational identities, communities, and the experiences of Okinawan internees and prisoners of war" by Joyce N. Chinen

"From priestesses and disciples to witches and traitors : internment of Japanese women at Honouliuli and narratives of 'madwomen'" by Amy Nishimura

"The effect of internment of children and families : Honouliuli and Manzanar" by Susan Matoba Adler

"Psychic wounds from the past : investigating intergenerational trauma in the families of Japanese Americans interned in the Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp" by Garyn K. Tsuru

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Japanese Americans in Hawaii during World War II: Resources: Print Books

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Reference Books

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Featured Resource: Breaking the Silence

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