Preface / Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung -- Part I :
... Before camp -- Introduction to part i -- Arrival and community -- Arrival in San Francisco / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama -- The Turlock incident / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama -- Whither immigrants / Ayako Ishigaki (as Haru Matsui) -- Lil' Yokohama / Toshio Mori -- Arrest and alien internment -- Those airplanes outside aren't ours / Shelley Ayame Nishimura Ota -- 1941 (Showa 16) / Kamekichi Tokita -- I must be strong / John Okada (as Anonymous) -- Arrest / Bunyu Fujimura -- They took our father too / Fujiwo Tanisaki -- Fort Sill internment camp / Otokichi Ozaki (as Muin Ozaki) -- Sand Island and Santa Fe internment camps / Yasutaro Soga (as Keiho Soga) -- I can't bear to be stigmatized as 'potentially dangerous' / Iwao Matsushita -- Cooperation and refusal -- Executive order -- Has the Gestapo come to America? / James Omura -- Decision to cooperate / Mike Masaoka -- Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry -- Why I refuse to register for evacuation / Gordon K. Hirabayashi -- Kicked out of Berkeley / Charles Kikuchi -- Part II : The camps -- Introduction to part ii -- Fairgrounds and racetracks -- Life in Camp Harmony / Monica Sone -- Curfew / Mitsuye Yamada -- Resolution and readiness, confusion and doubt / Portland senryū poets -- Lover's lane / Yoshio Abe -- Deserts and swamps -- Recommendations to Milton Eisenhower, director, war relocation authority -- Fry bread / Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey -- Barracks home / Toyo Suyemoto -- That damned fence / Authorship uncertain -- I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country / Kiyo Sato -- Gila relocation center song / Masae Wada -- The unpleasantness of the year / Cherry Tanaka -- Alice hasn't come home / Hiroshi Nakamura -- The martyrs of Camp Manzanar / Joe Kurihara -- The paper / Iwao Kawakami -- Send back the father of these American citizens / Nao Akutsu -- Registration and segregation -- Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry -- We respectfully ask for immediate answers / Topaz Resident Committee -- The factual causes and reasons why I refused to register / Kentaro Takatsui -- Loyalty / Sada Murayama -- Cincinnati / Mitsuye Yamada -- Confidential statement to Dillon Myer, director, war relocation authority -- This is like going to prison / Kazuo Kawai (as Ryōji Hiei) -- The army takes control / Noboru Shirai -- Several brethren arrested after marital law was declared at Tule Lake in November 1943 / Hyakuissei Okamoto -- Brother's imprisonment / Violet Kazue de Cristoforo -- Hunger strike / Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye -- Geta / Bunichi Kagawa -- Volunteers and the draft -- A lonely and personal decision / Minoru Masuda -- The activation of Company K / Tamotsu Shibutani -- She is my mother, and I am the son who volunteered / Toshio Mori -- Father of volunteers / Jōji Nozawa -- Petition to President Roosevelt / Fuyo Tanagi and the Mothers Society of Minidoka -- Fair play committee / Yoshito Kuromiya -- We hereby refuse... in order to contest the issue / Frank Emi and the Fair Play Committee -- Song of Cheyenne / Eddie Yanagisako and Kenroku Sumida -- Resegregation and renunciation -- An act to provide for loss of United States nationality under certain circumstances -- Wa shoi wa shoi, the emergence of the 'headband' group / Noboru Shirai -- Badges of honor / Motomu Akashi -- Japs they are, citizens or not / Joe Kurihara -- Starting from Loomis... again / Hiroshi Kashiwagi -- Part III : After camp -- Introduction to part iii -- Resettlement and reconnection -- The year is 2045 / James Takeda (as Bean Takeda) -- Internment camp psychology / David Mura -- Returning home / Shizue Iwatsuki -- Topaz, Utah / Toyo Suyemoto -- We, the dangerous / Janice Mirikitani -- December 7 always brings Christmas early / Amy Uyematsu -- Your hands guide me through trains / Brian Komei Dempster -- 1942: in response to executive order 9066, my father, sixteen, takes / Christine Kitano -- Redress -- An appeal for action to obtain redress for the World War II evacuation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans / Shosuke Sasaki and the Seattle Evacuation Redress Committee -- Personal justice denied, part 2: recommendations -- The complaint / William Minoru Hohri -- Coram Nobis press conference / Jeanne Sakata -- Letter from the White House -- No redress / Traci Kato-Kiriyama -- Repeating history -- Evacuation, the sequel / Perry Miyake -- Do we really need to relearn the lessons of Japanese American internment? / Fred Korematsu -- We have been here before / Brandon Shimoda -- Theses on the philosophy of history / Brynn Saito -- Never again is now / Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki. Read More