FOR TEACHERS
GENERAL
Japanese American National Museum
“Waku Waku”
This 59 page guide contains a number of activities suitable for youth between the ages of 5 and 12 years. The main goal is to offer resources through which multi- and bi-racial youth can explore their Japanese heritage. This 59 page book is made possible by the JACL Legacy Fund Grants Program. Free downloads by clicking here.
National Japanese American
Historical Society
Pacific Citizen Newspaper Archives
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 AND FORCED REMOVAL
Japanese Relocation
Propaganda Newsreel
The Orange Story – Short Narrative Film with Interactive Curriculum
LIFE IN CAMP
“My Only Crime Is My Face”
Primary Source Document
Prisoner in My Homeland – Interactive Educational Game
Look Toward the Mountain: Stories From Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp – Podcast series
Resistance at Tule Lake
Directed by Konrad Aderer
A documentary (2017) about the long-suppressed story of Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government’s program of mass incarceration during WWII.
For Joy – Short Documentary
CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOLIDARITY
Yuri and Malcolm – Short Video
Kiyoshi Kuromiya – Short Documentary
Born in a Japanese confinement camp during World War II, Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943-2000) was active in the Civil Rights movement and in anti-war protests as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Kuromiya later co-authored books with Buckminster Fuller and became a founding member of ACT UP Philadelphia, which is still ACTing UP for housing justice in Philadelphia and fighting back against HIV criminalization and stigmatization today. He also founded the Critical Path AIDS Project.
POSTWAR RESETTLEMENT
Okaeri (Welcome Home)
The Nisei Legacy at Shofuso
A Virtual Exhibition
Resettlement in Philadelphia
A Densho Encyclopedia Article
JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection Video Resources
Healing Community Trauma at
Seabrook Temple – Short Video
REDRESS AND THE
PILGRIMAGE MOVEMENT
45 Years of Anger:
Redress for Japanese Americans
An Educational Video
Speak Out For Justice –
Selected Clips from Redress Hearings
PILGRIMAGE (2006) — This 22 minute video tells the story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed into a place of retrospection and solidarity in our post 9/11 world.
The Power of Pilgrimage – Short Video
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE AMERICAN ACTIVIST MOVEMENTS
9066 to 9/11 – A Short Documentary
Tsuru For Solidarity –
Origami Crane Folding Activity
American Peril: Imagining the
Foreign Threat – An Online Exhibit
American Peril: Faces of the Enemy – A Digital Portrait series
JACL Philadelphia 