Japanese Internment during World War II

Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Site includes information, an encyclopedia, archives, a learning center, a blog, and news.

Books, links, resources courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum.

Database that contains detailed information of Japanese Americans removed from their homes and relocated to concentration camps. Provides instructions on how to search the War Relocation Authority Records for records.

Provides instructions on how to order and obtain paper copies of War Relocation Authority
Evacuee Case Files, World War II Alien Enemy Detention and Internment Case Files and
Compensation and Reparation Case Files for the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Contains links to government documents, articles, oral histories, and other scholarly resources
related to Japanese internment in Australia, Canada, Latin America, and the United States.

The Go For Broke National Education Center provides educational resources about Japanese
American soldiers during World War II, Japanese American incarceration, and the civil liberties
issues raised by these events. Website includes oral histories and historical information.

Stanley Hayami was a Japanese American student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming. Hayami left Heart Mountain in June 1944 to join the U.S. Army and was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This is his diary.