Of the nine final reports written by the War Relocation Authority, this one differs in attempting to give a comprehensive view of the WRA program in its entirety rather than focusing on some particular facet of the program as did the other reports....
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Describes Japanese migration to the U.S. before World War II, characteristics of the Japanese-American people who settled on the West Coast, the myths and prejudices surrounding them, and how they were treated following the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
June 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced by the residents of the Topaz Relocation Center. This issue was edited by Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki with Mine Okubo as art editor and Alfred Sawahata as contributing artist. ...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
February 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama and Marii Kyogoku, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor and Tom Yamamoto as contributing artist. Articles and stories...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Velez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This is the holiday issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor, this issue contained the following articles: State of the City by Taro Katayama;...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Geology -- Utah; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Report describes the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York where 1,000 refugees of various European nationalities were brought to the United States from Italy by order of President Roosevelt in 1944; they were to be returned...
Fort Ontario State Historic Site (Oswego, N.Y.); World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
This report examines how property owned by West Coast Japanese Americans in 1942 was handled when they were forced to go to relocation centers. Table of Contents: Legal Provisions for Controlling the Assets of Enemy Nationals in Time of War;...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Property; Farm ownership
Official publication by the War Relocation Authority describes its policies and procedures established as of May 1943. It addresses center policies on leave, work placement, travel and subsistence, food, lodging, health services, clothing...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority
Report describes the War Relocation Program from its inception in 1942 to closure of relocation centers and resettlement of evacuees in 1945. It covers why and how the War Relocation Authority was created, the meeting with state governors in Salt...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority
This report contains more than 100 tables and charts detailing statistics and characteristics describing the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were under the jurisdiction of the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Data...
Japanese Americans -- Statistics; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Describes the background and nature of the U.S.'s program for relocating Japanese-Americans initiated in early 1943, a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States
Ramblings '44 is the second yearbook produced by the Associated Students of Topaz High School. Covering the school year September 1943 through June 1944, it describes the scholastic activities and accomplishments of Japanese American students...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Japanese American students interned at the Topaz Relocation Center produced high school yearbooks during the 1943 and 1944 school years. The introduction to the 1943 yearbook provides some insight into the unusual nature of their school: "The...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
In 1980, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation of American citizens and permanent resident aliens during World War II and "recommend...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights
This report examines the postwar adjustment of relocated Japanese Americans during the 18 months following the closure of the Japanese American relocation centers in 1945. Begun in July 1946, the study was "to analyze the effects of the evacuation...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Memorial address given December 3, 1944 by Masaru Narahara for 10 Japanese American soldiers who died in action. Narahara, chairman of the Community Council at the Topaz Relocation Center where the address was given, paid honor to the memory of 10...
Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center
Memorial address given September 11, 1944 by Rev. Shigeo Shimada at a memorial service for Private Nobuo Kajiwara, a 29-year-old Japanese American killed in action in Italy on July 11, 1944. The service was given at the Topaz Relocation Center...
Kajiwara, Nobuo, 1912-1944; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
In this letter to the editor of the Logan Herald Journal, her hometown newspaper, Laura Merrill writes from the Topaz Relocation Center, describing the small libraries she oversees as the Center's Librarian and what life is like inside Topaz. This...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Libraries; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963 -- Correspondence; Letters to the editor -- Utah -- Topaz
This report examines the phases of the WRA program in relation to legal issues. It is broken into 3 sections: I. The constitutionality of evacuation and detention; II. Legal considerations in the development of center management policies; III....
This report begins by examining how the relationship between Japanese Americans living on the West Coast in 1942 with other residents led to their being singled out for evacuation and placement in relocation centers after the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Guidebook to the Central Utah Relocation Project in Topaz, Utah describes to incoming residents the layout, facilities, and services of the center. Illustrated by Yuri Sugihara, the guidebook contains maps, building layouts, a diagram of the...
Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Congressional hearings in Jan. and Feb. 1944 on several bills, H.R. 2701, 3012, 3446, and 3489, proposing (1) expatriation of Japanese-Americans who under oath expressed loyalty to Japan and (2) creation of a Japanese Deportation Commission. The...
Japanese Americans -- Law and legislation; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Executive Order 9102 signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 18, 1942 established a War Relocation Authority to "provide for the removal from designated areas of persons whose removal is necessary in the interests of national security." The War...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Law and legislation
Executive Order 9066 laid the legal foundation for the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, the order authorized creation of military areas "from which any or all persons may be...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Written in October 1942 to staff of the War Relocation Authority, this paper stresses the importance of understanding the cultural background of the Japanese Americans living in relocation centers. It describes common behavior patterns among the...
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs
Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei)...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Public Law 100-383, called the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, acknowledged "the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment" of people of Japanese ancestry during World World II.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Law and legislation
This background paper prepared "for information of the staff of the War Relocation Authority " is marked "Restricted" and "Not for Publication." It begins with a description of Japanese migration to the U.S. and characteristics of the Japanese...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Written and illustrated by residents of Topaz, this 55 page collection of stories and articles recounts the experiences and feelings of the Japanese Americans forced to leave cherished homes, jobs, possessions, and pets for the dusty, stark...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes
Report describes how the War Relocation Authority was established, organized, and managed. It covers in detail the logistics of setting up, staffing, supplying, and then closing the centers. One section covers the agency's records management of...
