CU Boulder Japanese and Japanese American Community History Project: Research

These rosters, part of the Records of the War Relocation Authority, consist of alphabetical lists of evacuees at relocation centers. The lists typically provide the following information about the individual evacuees: name, family number, sex, date of birth, marital status, citizenship status, alien registration number, method of original entry into center, date of entry, pre-evacuation address, center address, type of final departure, date of departure, and final destination.

Japanese relocation camp newspapers recorded the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans. Articles frequently include dual English and Japanese content.

Records of the War Relocation Authority documents for 10 relocation camps from 1942-1946. The collection is organized by relocation center. Includes reports and correspondence on issues such as security, education, health, vocational training, agriculture, food, and family welfare.

For the "Japanese American Internment Collections," of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

Search newspapers from around the word over time. Use keywords related to Incarcerations such as places: Amache, Grenada; people: Bill Hosokawa, Minoru Yasui; publications: Rocki Shinpo, Kakushu Jiho.

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established by act of Congress in 1980. Includes testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission's inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees. Documents include publications, reports, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. related to the hearings.