JAPANESE AMERICAN GRAPHIC NOVELS
Presenting graphic novels detailing the Japanese American experience in WWII. Published by Chin Music Press and Wing Luke Museum.
ABOUT THESE NOVELS
Wing Luke Museum, Chin Music Press, and many voices from the Japanese American community produced and published three graphic novels detailing particular aspects of the Japanese American experience in World War II.
These novels explore historical choices made by Japanese Americans and others to join the war effort, resist incarceration, or become upstanders against it. With art, stories of Nisei veterans, No-No Boys, and other resisters who stood up against the wave of racism and constitutional infringement come to life with each engaging page.
Authors include Larry Matsuda, Ken Mochizuki, Tamiko Nimura, and Frank Abe.
Art by Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki and Kiku Hughes.
The books are written for middle school students and older and will give younger students great examples of what it means to stand up for and support each other in the toughest of times.
FIGHTING FOR AMERICA: NISEI VETERANS
MIDDLE GRADE+
Surviving war is a personal experience. Follow 6 stories of Veterans known as Nisei Veterans, second-generation Japanese Americans who courageously fought for their country and made a significant mark in American history.
WE HEREBY REFUSE
MIDDLE GRADE+
Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice.
Japanese Americans complied when expelled from their homes in World War II and forcibly incarcerated in American concentration camps – but when it came to their ongoing imprisonment, many among them refused to submit without a fight.
THOSE WHO HELPED US
MIDDLE GRADE+
Sumiko, like all of her community, is forced into a prison camp and taken by gunpoint from her home in Seattle. Through the eyes of a young Japanese American girl, follow a fictionalized account of real historic events during the Second World War.
GET THE BOOKS
The books can be found in-person at the Wing Luke Marketplace. Get them online at wingluke.org/shop
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