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  • Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

    The website is in English and describes many onsite holdings. Research room includes microfilm of passport applications. Make an appointment to research; bring passport for ID.

  • FamilySearch Catalog

    From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania

    Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

  • JAMsj - Japanese American Museum | San Jose's Japantown

    The Japanese American Museum of San Jose showcases a unique collection of permanent and rotating exhibits chronicling more than a century of Japanese American history. Visitors will learn about early immigration of Japanese to America, their leadership in the agricultural community, their incarceration during World War II and the challenges they faced, while adapting and contributing to West Coast communities.

  • Japanese American National Library

    National library based in San Francisco, CA, housing Japanese directories, newspapers, some primary source camp data. Open by appointment.

  • Japanese American National Museum

    Los Angeles, California.

  • Japanese American Research Project collection about Japanese in the U.S. (Yuji Ichioka papers), 1893-1973

    Large collection of personal papers, photos, oral histories related to Japanese American experience, located at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

  • LibDex - The Library Index

    A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

  • Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

    The specific aim of the Bureau is to locate and preserve archives, manuscripts and other unpublished or semi-published material through microfilm. It is interested in gathering material of historical, literary, or scientific interest to Pacific scholars which may be of value either now or in the future. Of particular concern to the Bureau are those documents at risk either from adverse climactic conditions, insect infestation, or civil unrest. It is also interested in preserving material deteriorating as a result of age or poor storage. Microfilming older at-risk records has been the moving force of the Bureau.

  • The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive

    The Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley. Starting in August 2011 and ending in March 2014, the project digitized nearly 100,000 original manuscript items and made them available on the Online Archive of California. A thematic website was designed and created to lead users to the data by various means, including textual searches using standardized vocabularies and visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps. The digital archive allows users to explore these primary source materials and connects them to related resources. As one of the Bancroft Library's most heavily used collections, this project ensures the long-term preservation of the original materials while providing unprecedented access through a central portal.

  • The Japanese Canadian National Museum (JCNM)

    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and interpret historical artifacts and archival material covering the history of Japanese Canadian Society from the 1870's through World War II to the present day.

    • Asian Reading Room

      The primary public access point for readers and researchers seeking to use the vast European collections of the Library of Congress.

      • Collections

        The Asian Division's collections are among the most significant outside of Asia and comprise almost 2 million books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts and microforms in the languages of East, South and Southeast Asia.  Initiated in 1869 with a gift of ten works in 933 volumes that was offered to the United States by the Emperor of China, the Asian collections have become one of the most accessible and comprehensive sources of Asian language materials in the world.  The collections span a diversity of subjects from China, Japan, Korea, the South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

    • Portals in the Asian Division

      Selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.

  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

    Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.

    • The East Asian Collection

      The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China. The completed project will be a valuable resource for research into this region and its history. Collections include W. H. Dobson, early 20th Century missionary and physician in southern China, and Holmes Welch, renouned scholar in the field of Buddhist studies and Buddhism in China.

  • Wing Luke Museum Governor Gary Locke Library and Community Heritage Center

    Collects, preserves and provides access to archives, photographs, artifacts, and oral histories concerning the history, art and culture of local, regional, and national Asian Pacific American communities. Located in Seattle, Washington.

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