Here are some of the sources we consulted when researching for the local sections of the exhibit: Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American WWII Experience. [THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Secondary Sources

Exhibit Publications

Japanese Voices from the Pacific Northwest (2009)
PDF available online through the Salem Multicultural Institute (SMI)’s website: http://www.salemmulticultural.org/Gallery/past%20exhibits/2009/Japanese%20Voices%20From%20the%20Northwest%20Booklet.pdf

Student Scholarship

Micah Merryman. “Japanese in Salem: History of the Nikkei Community in Marion County.” Senior Thesis. Willamette University, 2013

Dean H. Nakanishi. “Between Worlds: The Willamette University Japanese American Experience Resulting from Executive Order 9066.” Willamette Heritage Center Collections L 2005-0063.

Books

Dr. Linda Tamura. Nisei Soldiers Break their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.

Special Collections

Lestle J. Sparks Papers
Willamette University Archives and Special Collections

Oral History Interviews

Online-accessible materials notated with an asterisk

*Susi Jinx Fujii (2014). Oregon Nikkei Endowment. Accessible through Densho Project. http://ddr.densho.org/narrators/787/

*Hiroshi Kaneko (1998). REGenerations Project. Japanese American National Museum and the Chicago Japanese Historical Society. Online version available through Online Archive of California: http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7n39p0cn/?brand=oac4

*Tom Oye (2002). Concordia University
http://content.clic.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16120coll13/id/399

*Emi Yada Somekawa. Densho Project.
http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-378/

*Taul Watanabe (1969). University of Washington Libraries and Special Collections. Taul Watanabe Papers, Accession No. 1131-001. OHC0083
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ohc/id/237

Misako Yada and Jere Okada (2013). Brooks Historical Society

Tatsuro Yada (1992). Oregon Historical Society, SR 0960

Henry Yoshikai (2017). Willamette Heritage Center

Henry Yoshikai (2013). Brooks Historical Society

Tom and Georgette Yoshikai (2007). Beyond Barbed Wire. Special Presentation by the Statesman Journal.