Japanese Interment/Japantown Links

Hey all,

when you are ready, here is some info on the Japanese Internment/Japantown:

"It’s like visiting Japan without the hassle and expense of a long trip across the Pacific."
--from the Japantown website
http://www.sfjapantown.org/

Japantown entry on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japantown,_San_Francisco,_California

Overview of the internment on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_Internment

SF Virtual Museum on the specific evacuation of SF Japanese Americans:
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
(Check out also the primary documents at the bottom for a flavor of how the Japanese Americans were perceived and talked about back then. Its a little bit shocking)

Site with some multimedia assets about the internment:
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment/

Photos by Ansel Adams in Manzanar, one of the internment camps:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/