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21) Japanese grammar
Author
Publisher
Barrons Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 251 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hero Momotaro, the sun goddess Amaterasu, and the Buddha are important subjects of Japanese mythology. Japanese Gods, Heroes, and Mythology explores the gods, heroes, creatures, and stories of Japanese mythology, in addition to examining their influence today.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, twelve-year-old Tomi and her Japanese-American family are split up and forced to leave their California home to live in internment camps in New Mexico and Colorado"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends--just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before....
30) Japan
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. and updated
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's New York Times bestseller Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to beloved rom-com Tokyo Ever After!
When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, she's overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
Author
Language
English
Description
"China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates...
Author
Series
Days of infamy series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and successful occupation of Hawaii, America must marshall its military forces to reclaim the islands from the enemy.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa-- and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, and adopted by a Japanese couple who raise her on a farm in California. During World War II Ruth and her husband suffer internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp. After the war, she receives a letter from Rachel. As the two meet and come to love one...
37) Internment camps
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
39) Eagle and crane
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto 'Harry' Yamada- Eagle and Crane- are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of the bombing,...
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