Notes: As I planned my trip to the Rohwer Heritage Site, and then dug deeper into the history and community surrounding the WWII Japanese American Concentration Camp experience, these are some of the organizations, articles, and artists that helped further my knowledge. Each site/work/ariticle lead me to something new. Special shout out to Densho for being an absolutely thriving, forward-thinking archive and all-around resource, as well as the artist G. Funo O’Kain, who is creating amazing, site-specific works. While on the road to Rohwer, AK, I found O’kain’s work via Instagram – grateful that I did. Be sure to check it out. Have a great resource I should add? Send it to me!

SITES

Densho

Tessaku

Tsuru For Solidarity

Resisters.com: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration / Frank Abe’s Website

Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages

Japanese American National Museum

ARTICLES / ESSAYS

Literature in Camp (Densho)

Literary Works on Incarceration (Densho)

Poetry in History: Japanese American Internment (Lantern Review)

Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps (NPR Radio Piece)

The Unsolvable Mystery of “That Damned Fence” (Densho)

Article on Poet and Memoirist Toyo Suyemoto (Densho)

49 Stones for the Poetry of Japanese American Incarceration by Brandon Shimoda

5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment by Brandon Shimoda

ARTISTS / PROJECTS

Shadow Reclamation Authority — G. Funo O’Kain / @gcfuno

Show Me the Way To Go To Home by Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy / @showmethewaytogotohome

50 Objects — Nancy Ukai, Project Director / @50ObjectsNikkei

Campu: A Podcast (Densho)

Campu: An American Story (in-progress) by Haruka Sakaguchi \ @hsakag

CONCENTRATION CAMP LITERARY JOURNALS

ROWHER

The Pen (November 1943)

TOPAZ

Trek, Vol 1, No. 1 (December 1942)

Trek, Vol 1, No. 2 (February 1943)

Trek, Vol. 1, No. 3 (June 1943)

All Aboard (Spring 1944)

ARCHIVES