CU Boulder Japanese and Japanese American Community History Project: Japanese American History in Colorado

Documents the history of Japanese and Japanese American students, faculty, and staff at the University of Colorado. Contains documents, photos, audio and video recordings, and other materials from the University Libraries’ Archives, as well as oral history interviews.

The Japanese Language School Collection is a composite of papers from a number of sources related to the US Navy Japanese Language School located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. Interest in the Japanese Language School commenced in the late 1980s when children of former Nisei instructors against the US Navy made a claim over the treatment of those JLS instructors in Boulder.

Copies of family histories of leading Japanese-Americans of Logan County, Colorado. Also newspaper clippings and two programs.

Series of papers from a research project headed by Professor Russell Endo, Sociology Department, University of Colorado. Included is a descriptive history of the settlement of the Japanese in Colorado.

Professor Maeda is a faculty member of CU Boulder. See other articles at Discover Nikkei about Japanese Americans in Colorado.

A compelling collection of oral histories voiced by over 40 persons of Japanese birth or heritage who now reside in Colorado. They include the histories of original immigrants (Issei) who left Japan prior to World War II, of setbacks as American citizens of Japanese descent were incarcerated in concentration camps by the US government during the war, and rebuilding their lives and to become once again valuable contributors to Colorado.

In Colorado's Japanese Americans, renowned journalist and author Bill Hosokawa pens the first history of this significant minority in the Centennial State. From 1886, when the young aristocrat Matsudaira Tadaatsu settled in Denver, to today, when Colorado boasts a population of more than 11,000 people of Japanese ancestry. eBook version available.

A comprehensive examination of Asians in Colorado. Explores anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver, the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp, the recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals. Offers perspective on how cycles of persecution are repeated. Covers Asian American experiences and the development of Colorado and the greater American West.

Emphasizes the multiplicity of peoples who have inhabited Colorado, addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado, bringing together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans.

Published from 1918-1969. Full text scans from 1945 by the Library of Congress. Microfilm from 1950-1969 held at Denver Public Library. Read more about the paper on Densho.

Formerly knows as Nippon Rockī. Published 1945-1961. Full text scans from 1944-45 by the Library of Congress. Read more about the paper on Densho.

Located on the southeastern plains of Colorado. The story of Amache, detailing the effect the camp had on surrounding towns and Colorado in general. Based on extensive research as well as interviews with many of the survivors, many who chose to remain in the state.

In this memoir, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes - snapshots of people, recreated scenes and events - to describe how a ten-year-old girl grew into a teenager inside these camps. Vintage photographs reveal the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakai family's dislocation.

A story about the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories and archival data with the personal photographs and memories of former incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement. Many had been farmers, gardeners, or nursery workers, applying their horticultural expertise to the difficult high plains landscape of southeastern Colorado.

After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, roughly 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps across the United States. Colorado Governor Ralph Carr fought to bring a camp to Colorado, where he felt its internees would be safe from harm. The Granada Relocation Center, more commonly known as Amache, held 7,567 internees - making it the tenth largest city in Colorado.

Published 1942-1945. Previous title was Bulletin during October 1942. See Library of Congress Entries of Bulletin and The Granada Pioneer for full text scans. Read more about the paper on Densho.

Examines the experiences of the Japanese American language instructors of the Navy Japanese Language School (JLS) that was housed at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1942 to 1946. Focuses on the instructors' impressions of the history and the legacy of the Language School.

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The Japanese American religious institutions, Tri-State Buddhist Church and Simpson United Methodist Church, have since their establishment always met the needs of their congregations. Along with the transition and transformation of the ethnic community, the churches adjusted their roles to meet the changing needs of their congregations. Both began to perform the role of ethnic community centers when territorial ethnic community was dispersed. The churches became rare organizations of single ethnic orientation, providing Japanese Coloradans opportunities to maintain their ethnic ties.

Immigrants in industries: Reports of the Immigration Commission, Part 25 - U.S. Senate Document. Three Volumes.
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