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Pacific Asia Museum: Animals in Japanese Art
A rich-media site that explores animals, both real and imaginary, as a central theme in Japanese paintings and prints. Learn about the traditions and techniques of Japanese painting and prints and see examples of work created by Japanese...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collections: Japanese Paintings
From the online collection tours of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this is a collection of pieces from the Japanese Paintings at the museum. Click on 'View All Works' to access the collection.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collection Tours: Japanese Screens
A slideshow of Japanese Screens from the museum's collections. Scroll down to find the tour of your choice.
The Atlantic Monthly Group
In Focus: World War Ii: Intermnent of Japanese Americans
Haunting photographs of Japanese-Americans as they were rounded up and placed in internment camps in the western United States not long after Pearl Harbor. The photographs all have captions which add context to the pictures as well as...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps
This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar
Resource provides vivid photographs taken by Ansel Adams at the Manzanar Relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans.
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National Diet Library, Japan: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
Portrait photographs of nearly two hundred Japanese statesmen, government officials, military officers, businesspeople, artists, and others who had an impact on the history of modern Japanese society. Each portrait is accompanied by a...
PBS
Pbs: The War: Japanese American Soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read a description of the brave efforts of the Japanese-American Soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion. With links to related...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Villainizing Japanese Americans During the Wwii Era
Analyze primary sources in the media gallery and create an illustrated poem to learn how Japanese Americans were impacted by anti-Chinese exclusion policies of the 1800s, and why it escalated during World War II. As a result, Americans...
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Japanese American National Museum: Henry Sugimoto Collection
Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) was a Japanese American artist. Many of his paintings depict life during World War II in the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese internment camps in Arkansas and in the Fresno centre in California.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Photographs of Japanese Internment
View Dorothea Lange's pictures of the Japanese Interment. View children getting an education, fathers with their sons, and many more great pictures.
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Japanese American National Museum: Benji Okubo Collection
Benji Okubo (1904-1975) was a Japanese American artist who was placed in an internment camp during World War II. A seelection of his paintings are displayed here from before and during the war. A link above his paintings, takes you to a...
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Japanese American National Museum: Mori Shimada Collection
Mori Shimada was a young man when he was imprisoned in the Heart Mountain Japanese concentration camp in Wyoming in World War II. A collection of photographs that he took there are displayed in this online exhibit.
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Topper Gallery Japanese Scroll Paintings
Two examples of Japanese scroll paintings are found here with very little information.
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Japanese Tea Ceremony
Digital cartoon of a woman performing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
PBS
Pbs: The War: Daniel Inouye
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read the biography of a Japanese American soldier, Daniel Inouye, who served during WWII, and became a U.S. Senator from Hawaii. With links to related resources,...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Disposition of Bataan Defense Force
Follow the advance of Japanese forces against American guns on Bataan from Jan. 6-16, 1942. Map from University of Texas.
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Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
The Atlantic Monthly Group
In Focus: World War Ii: Pearl Harbor
From The Atlantic series about World War II photographs, this section has forty-five photographs with captions covering all aspects of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Several of the photographs are from film recovered from captured Japanese...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Philippine Islands, 1941
This is a full map of the Philippines in 1941 showing Japanese troop advances and American airfields.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: General Map of Campaign on North Luzon and Bataan
This map shows the Japanese advance against U.S. troops in the Philippines from Dec. 8, 1941 to April 9, 1942.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History: Japan: a.d. 500 1000
Interactive timeline allows visitors to view representative works of Japanese art in a segmented chronology that extends from AD 500 to 1000. Includes examples from different periods in Japanese history and from all geographical regions....
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ak: Japanese Occupation Site, Kiska Island
Site of the Japanese occupation of Kiska which along with nearby Attu were the only US land occupied by the Japanese during World War II.
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Small Japanese Fishing Boats Being Towed Up the Fraser River
An insightful look at how anti-Japanese sentiment affected Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia after WWI.
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