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  Japanese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese Americans are a group of people who trace their ancestry to Japan or Okinawa and are residents and/or citizens of the United States.
Japanese Americans also have the oldest demographic structure of any ethnic group in the U.S.; in addition, in the younger generations, due to intermarriage with whites and other Asians, part-Japanese are more common than full Japanese, and it appears as if this physical assimilation will continue at a rapid rate.
Americans of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States, including the Nisei were, forcibly interned with their parents and children (the Sansei Japanese Americans) during WWII.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_American   (2125 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Japanese American
Japanese Americans, or Nikkei (日系), are a group of people who trace their ancestry to Japan or Okinawa and are residents and/or citizens of the United States.
Main article: Japanese American internment The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as persons of Japanese ancestry, 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War II to...
The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially described as persons of Japanese ancestry, 62 percent of whom were United States citizens, from the west coast of the United States during World War II to...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese-American   (4352 words)

  
 Sansei Japanese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most Sansei were born during the Baby Boom after the end of World War II.
Older Sansei who were living in the western United States during WWII were forcibly interned with their parents and grandparents (Issei Japanese Americans) after the issuance of Executive Order 9066.
The Sansei played a leading activist role in a redress movement, which culminated in a bill signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 which provided an official apology and $20,000 restitution for each of the 60,000 survivors (about half of the total internees).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sansei_Japanese_American   (142 words)

  
 Japanese American Elder Cohorts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Because of this influx, the Japanese became the dominant population on the islands.
It is thought that thousands of young Japanese male laborers came from Hawaii and Japan in 1885 to work on railroads, to pick fruit and vegetables for canneries, or to work in industries such as logging, mining, and meatpacking.
As a result, Japanese Americans are considered the most acculturated and assimilated Asian subgroup and they have been characterized as a "model minority." But in spite of their overall success and achievements, many factors may hinder successful aging for today's diverse older Japanese American population: (Yeo, et al, 1999, pg.
www.gasi.org /diversity/cohort/japanese_am_cohort.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ: Japanese American Congregationalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Many clergy in the Japanese American community for example, the Rev. Joseph K. Fukushima, Rohwer, Arkansas; the Rev. Seizo Abe, Manzanar, California; and the Rev. Kenji Kikuchi, at Poston, Arizona as well as those who represented the Christian and Buddhist traditions and a host of lay leaders, carried their ministry to the camps.
Released and free, many Japanese Americans were determined to compensate for their "guilt" of being Japanese in a society of "Americans." Most left and resettled in the Rocky Mountain, Middle Western, and Eastern states.
The Pacific and Asian American Ministries of the United Church of Christ (PAAM) was formed in 1974, and in the years since then the three generations of Japanese Americans women and men, youth and adults, clergy and laity have been elected to serve on conference and national committees.
www.ucc.org /aboutus/histories/chap11.htm   (5514 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Jonathan Dresner on Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Japanese began migrating to Hawai'i in the 1880s, and when Hawai'i became a territory of the United States at the turn of the century, Japanese began emigrating to North America by the tens of thousands.
Japanese American acquiescence in wartime internment and the emphasis on educational and economic success has created an impression of political apathy that is, in the opinion of Takahashi, undeserved.
The biographical discussion of Sansei is limited to two individuals, who are both Nisei and Sansei by birth; more troubling is the fact that both are progressive activists, so the political and racial thought of the larger community is not portrayed with the kind of depth, humanity or complexity that characterizes the earlier chapters.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28070961002477   (3568 words)

  
 Japanese American Baseball History Project
At its core, Japanese American baseball makes an eloquent statement of pride and possibility and is truly a reflection of the "heart and mind" of a community which has sought to fulfill the promise of America for one hundred years.
When Japanese immigrants made the voyage across the Pacific to America during the last decades of the nineteenth century, they not only brought with them dreams of success, they brought a knowledge and appreciation for baseball back to the land of its origins.
The earliest known mainland Japanese American baseball team is the San Francisco Fujii club, a team of Issei players which formed in 1903, the first year of the modern World Series.
www.nikkeiheritage.org /research/bbhist.html   (1536 words)

  
 Japanese-American Internment - Liberty - Themepark
So Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes, sell much of their property at enormous losses, and move into detention/internment camps as a result of Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
Japanese Americans in Hawaii did not suffer this same fate because they made up such a large proportion of the population of the territory of Hawaii.
Sansei were the third generation of Japanese Americans--children of the Nisei.
www.uen.org /themepark/liberty/japanese.shtml   (1219 words)

  
 history
All people of Japanese ancestry were given a week to ten days to conclude any business, lock up their homes and report to a designated location on a specified date with no more baggage than they could carry.
Japanese Americans were then designated 1-A and told that they were eligible to volunteer for service in a segregated, all-Japanese unit which would serve in Europe.
However, the 1960s and early 1970s were witness to the Civil Rights movement, and a number of "Sansei" (third generation Japanese Americans) began a movement for redress in an effort to force the United States government to admit to the injustices it had inflicted upon their parents and grandparents.
chem.nwc.cc.wy.us /HMDP/history.htm   (6451 words)

  
 Untitled Document
A Japanese American Community Portrait, is a photographic journal chronicling the life of the first Japanese American community in the United States of America, located in San Francisco, California.
The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of U.S. history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country.
www.ewbb.com /stud_ja.htm   (890 words)

  
 Ameredia: Japanese American Market Demographics
Fewer Japanese have immigrated to the US since 1990-2000 and those already in this country have high rates of inter-racial marriage.
Leading US States for Japanese American population are California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
Japanese were more likely to report one or more other races or Asian groups with 4.8% reporting Japanese with one or more other Asian groups, 21% reporting Japanese with one or more other races and 4.8 reporting in addition or one or more other races and Asian groups.
www.ameredia.com /demographics/japanese.html   (458 words)

  
 Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The issei are the parents of the nisei, the grandparents of the sansei.
As is true for the other generations, the word issei comes from the Japanese character for the generation number, in this case, one.
The word Nisei was once used to refer to all Japanese Americans, but is not commonly used in that regard today.
www.janm.org /exhibits/breed/gloss_t.htm   (346 words)

  
 Japanese-American Internment
Japanese American internment raised questions about the rights of American citizens as embodied in the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
Pretend that you are a Japanese American housed in one of the interment camps during WWII.
The evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, or Nikkei, from the Pacific Coast in the early months of 1942 was the greatest mass movement in the history of Canada.
www.42explore2.com /japanese.htm   (1346 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Being Japanese American : A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and now fear their unique culture is being lost.
Gil Asakawa is a Sansei (3rd-generation Japanese American) writer and editor who was born in Tokyo and moved to the United States as a child.
Being Japanese American a superb guide to avoiding breaches of tact around Japanese friends, family, or visitors, regardless of one's own ethnic heritage or background, and is also chock-full of helpful ways to embrace, preserve, and treasure one's cultural identity.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/188065685X?v=glance   (935 words)

  
 Ore no Buloggu: Random Thoughts on being a Japanese-American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
She used to live north of Hokkaido on an island called Sakhalin (now controlled by Russia), and her dad was a fisherman.
I lost the Japanese side of me for 10 years, and then it reentered my life when I got a job as a waiter in Waikiki.
I'm lucky to be Japanese, and have parents who sent me to Japan annually to live with relatives, so the connection was always there.
blog.oreno.org /archives/000387.html   (645 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Japanese American Women: Three Generations, 1890-1990   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nakano's work is the first historical survey of Japanese American women to appear in the United States.
Drawing from a number of sources, Nakano recounts how Japanese cultural values shaped the pioneer women's responses to the hardships they faced, while their American-born daughters grappled with balancing traditional values with American norms.
She writes and lectures and extensively about Japanese Americans and human and civil rights and has appeared numerous times on local PBS Radio to discuss those issues.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0942610059   (296 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Examine the achievements of Japanese Americans in the history of the United States.
Analyze and decide whether the internment of Japanese Americans was an act of national security and/or institutional racism.
Rated R. A union organizer finds himself separated from his Japanese wife and children after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; they are sent to an internment camp and he is drafted to fight in the war.
www.smith.edu /fcceas/curriculum/echev.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Jere Takahashi: Nisei/Sansei
In telling the story of the community's complex and dynamic relationship to the larger society, he highlights individuals who contributed to the struggles and debates that paved the way for the emergence of a distinct Japanese American identity.
In contrast, Takahashi's study is premised on the existence of crucial subsets within the Nisei generation and presents those subsets in terms of different Nisei responses to racial subordination within a larger economic context.
This is at once the strength and originality of Takahashi's work which explains the triumph of the accommodationist response among the Nisei during and after World War II and the emergence of Sansei militance in the late 1960's....
www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/820_reg.html   (812 words)

  
 Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian American Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Namkung discusses his family background and the effect of living under Japanese occupation in Korea; U.S. immigration in the late 1940's; studies in music; his determination to become a photographer, early color photography, his philosophy as a photographer; and the Asian American community in Seattle.
Born in Seattle, Washington, a third generation Japanese American (Sansei), Shimomura received a B.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Washington, 1961, and M.F.A. in Painting from Syracuse University, 1969.
Japanese American sculptor George Tsutakawa discusses his training, WWII Japanese internment camps, views on art, and commissions in Seattle and Japan.
artarchives.si.edu /guides/asianam/entresmz.htm   (3477 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Topics covered in Sansei interviews included birth order, age, marital status, children, social relationships, occupation, industry, income, education, Japanese value systems, marital choices, influence of parents and grandparents, discrimination, religion, political attitudes, and migration.
The sample is further stratified to represent the density of the population of the Japanese-American community within each county.
Nisei and Sansei respondents were obtained by requesting the names and addresses of children and grandchildren from the parents.
www.usc.edu /isd/doc/statistics/databases/icpsr/sdes.files/cb8450   (292 words)

  
 Sansei Japanese American
Maybe you've also seen current events in the Japanese media, stories of crimes previously unheard of and shocking to most Japanese.
Popular films, television programs, comics, and music all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.
Contemporary forms of popular culture, like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world.
www.japan-101.com /culture/sansei_japanese_american.htm   (346 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Margaret Masunaga is a third generation ("sansei") Japanese-American attorney practicing in on the Big Island of Hawaii in the Kona Branch of the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the County of Hawaii.
Masunaga is active with the American Bar Association, presently as a Delegate-at-Large to the House of Delegates, and formerly serving as Hawaii State Bar Association representative to the House of Delegates.
Margaret Masunaga is the Co-President of the West Hawaii Bar Association, and served on the Board of Examiners and the Judicial Performance Committee of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
www.state.hi.us /hscsw/mmasunaga.html   (427 words)

  
 Being Japanese American by Gil Asakawa
From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and some now fear their unique culture is being lost.
Being Japanese American looks at where JAs came from, their cultural and spiritual roots, how they’ve adapted their customs to their new home, and the importance of food and language in their identity.
Also included are interviews with JAs and a look at how it’s hip to be Japanese, from manga to martial arts, plus a section on Japantown communities and tips for JAs scrapbooking their families and traveling to Japan to rediscover their roots.
stonebridge.com /ASAKAWA/asakawa.html   (413 words)

  
 Linda Nishio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I grew up in L.A. in a household where very little Japanese was spoken, except for my grandmother who spoke very little English.
During those early years I picked up some Japanese phrases, a few of which I still remember today.
So this is the story: A young artist of Japanese descent from Los Angeles who doesn't talk normal.
courses.csusm.edu /vsar302dc/nishio.html   (116 words)

  
 Japanese American National Museum: Events & Exhibits
October is National Arts Month...and, the Japanese American National Museum is pleased to help celebrate the arts in the first-ever "Museums Free-For-All" day on Saturday, October 1, 2005.
Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to developing multiethnic talent through education and performance.
Sansei Amy Uyematsu's third collection of poetry, Stone Bow Prayer, profiles a woman whose life engages politics, her ancestry, and spirit.
www.janm.org /events/digital.htm   (617 words)

  
 The Drachen Foundation: A Non-Profit Kite Education Resource - Special Events
A third generation Japanese American (Sansei) and native of Sacramento, California, Greg graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design in 1986.
His own family reunion, gave him the reason to make a kite, and was one of the first kites completed.
In April of 2002 he was fortunate to discover a Japanese kite building workshop taught by master kite builders, Nobuhiko Yoshizumi and Scott Skinner at the Drachen Foundation in Seattle.
www.drachen.org /special_events_kono2005.html   (412 words)

  
 KU Libraries Selected Works of Japanese American Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A young girl grows up in a closely-know Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
Miyo, a young Japanese American, helps her neighbor find a home in the country for her pet.
Children hear an old Japanese story about a fisherman who rode on a turtle's back to a beautiful place under the sea, and then ask questions about the story.
www.ku.edu /~rmelton/literature/asianlit/japanlit.htm   (452 words)

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