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    Read These &#;Camp&#; Memoirs for a First-Person Look at Japanese American WWII Incarceration

    May 5,

    When we think of Japanese American memoirs of the concentration camp experience, most of us think of a handful of older classic titles first: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston&#;s Farewell to Manzanar, Miné Okubo&#;s Citizen , Monica Sone&#;s Nisei Daughter, and Yoshiko Uchida&#;s Desert Exile.

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    • They are certainly the most cited, the most anthologized, the most written about and the most taught. All are well worth the read, but many other memoirs published since provide a much broader range of experiences and perspectives.

    Here are a dozen of Densho Content Director Brian Niiya’s favorites from the last twenty years.

    Translations of Works by Issei

    Noburu Shirai, Tule Lake: An Issei Memoir, translated by Ray Hosoda, edited by Eucaly Shirai and Valerie Sampson (Sacramento, Calif.: Muteki Press, )

    Yasutaro [Keiho] Soga, Life Behind Barbed Wire: