Japanese Americans World War Ii

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    • The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
    • By: Bruce Henderson, Gerald Yamada
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan....

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    • A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Louis Ozawa
    • Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,356 ratings
    • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation....

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    • The History of the Controversial Decision to Relocate Citizens Across the West Coast
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Even before Congress declared war on Japan the day after Pearl Harbor, the implications for people of Japanese ancestry living in the United States had begun….

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    • A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
    • By: Duncan Ryuken Williams
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history....

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    • One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
    • By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth.....

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    • A Japanese American World War II Story
    • By: George Takei
    • Narrated by: George Takei
    • Length: 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States....

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    • The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
    • By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
    • Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....

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    • A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
    • By: Mark Harmon
    • Narrated by: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them....

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    • The Japanese American Experience During World War II
    • By: Albert Marrin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Just 75 years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: It rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on their ancestry....

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    • The Daring Escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
    • By: Stephen L. Moore
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II. Endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival....

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    • An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
    • By: Eric Jaffe
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity....

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    • The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry
    • By: C. Sterner
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Japanese-Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and businesses, and placed in "relocation" camps throughout the West. With countless ...

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    • The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan
    • By: Bruce Lee
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military's breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict.

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    • By: John Okada, Ruth Ozeki
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys"....

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    • The American War With Japan
    • By: Ronald H. Spector
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • Historian Ronald H. Spector, drawing on declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material, Japanese scholarship and documents, and the research and memoirs of scholars, politicians, and the military men, presents a thrilling narrative of American war....

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    • The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
    • By: Richard Reeves
    • Narrated by: James Yaegashi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Best-selling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II....

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    • One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle
    • By: Art Shaw, Robert L. Wise
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In celebration of the 75th anniversary, a riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Okinawa from the first officer ashore, who served at the front for the battle’s entire 82-day duration, heroism that earned him a Bronze Star....

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