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First publish date: 1992
Authors: Joy Kogawa
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During World War II, a Japanese‑American boy learns to play baseball while living in an internment camp; the game becomes a key to his resilience and future after the war.

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Schindler's List is a fictional account of German industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved 1,300 Jews from the Holocaust.

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A World War II Canadian novel tracing the journey of Bin Okuma, a young Japanese-Canadian man, as his family is uprooted from British Columbia, sent to a remote internment camp, and he later returns decades later seeking closure.

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📘 The magic of ordinary days
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A young woman in Denver, displaced by World War II, finds friendship and self‑discovery among Japanese American sisters in an internment camp, confronting love, loyalty, and the injustices of the era.

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📘 When the emperor was divine
 by Julie Otsuka

Japanese‑American family deported to a Utah internment camp during World War II, narrated through four family members as they confront eviction and life in isolation.

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📘 War of the eagles
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A coming‑of‑age story set amid World War II in Canada, following a young Tsimshian boy as he navigates the hardships of evacuation, racial prejudice, and the upheavals of war.

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📘 Letters to memory
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A scholarly diary that intertwines archival documents from the Yamashita family with epistolary dialogues among historians, anthropologists, and classicists, using the Japanese internment as a lens to examine debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community.

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📘 Caged eagles
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Japanese‑Canadian evacuees in a World War II internment camp: sixteen‑year‑old Tadashi struggles to navigate his dual identity between loyalty to his family and survival in Canada's BC wilderness.

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📘 The eternal spring of Mr. Ito
 by Sheila Garrigue

Following Pearl Harbor, a young girl and a Japanese‑Canadian gardener decide the fate of a 200‑year‑old bonsai tree as they flee forced internment during WWII in Canada.

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📘 The electrical field
 by Kerri Sakamoto

In a 1970s Ontario suburb, the murder of Chisako and her lover forces residents to confront the lingering shadows of WWII internment, revealing how past injustices shape present identities.

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📘 Siebente Brunnen
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