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Maykovich, Minako K. – Journal of Social Issues, 1973
508 Sansei (third generation Japanese American) college students in California were interviewed to identify sociological correlates of Sansei activism; the Sansei were divided into four types based on the dimensions of acceptance versus rejection of traditionalism and involvement versus detachment from social issues. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Family Characteristics, Japanese American Culture

Kobashigawa, Ben – Amerasia Journal, 1986
The book, "History of the Okinawans in North America," is reviewed by its translator, who also summarizes the history and culture of the Okinawan community in California. Okinawans long considered themselves an oppressed minority among Japanese and desire a separate history in order to preserve the community and its cultural heritage.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cultural Background, History, Immigrants

Samuels, Frederick – Phylon, 1970
Analyzes the responses of 210 Hawaian Japanese and Caucasian respondents from seven different residential subsamples to questions regarding racial perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. (JM)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Japanese American Culture, Japanese Americans, Perception

Okamura, Raymond – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1977
Notes that a new era for the recording of Japanese American history was inaugurated in 1976. Representing more than historical revisionism a basic change in the premises for writing about the Japanese American concentration camps emerged. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: American History, History, Japanese Americans

Levine, Gene N.; Montero, Darrel M. – Journal of Social Issues, 1973
Data from a three generational survey of Japanese Americans indicate that the occupational and educational attainments of the first generation are reflected in the achievements of later generations, and suggest that both relatively traditional and more assimilationist currents flow in the Japanese American community. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Intermarriage, Japanese American Culture

Kikumura, Akemi; Kitano, Harry H. L. – Journal of Social Issues, 1973
A review of past studies and an analysis of current rates of intermarriage show a historical pattern which initially showed a high and almost exclusive preference for other Japanese, which began to show slight changes in the second generation, and which has reached the 50 percent level by the third generation. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitude Change, Ethnic Relations, Intermarriage

Kalish, Richard A.; Moriwaki, Sharon – Journal of Social Issues, 1973
Describes the psychosocial aspects of the past and the present living situation for today's elderly Chinese and Japanese Americans; many values to which first-generation Asian Americans were for maintaining adequate life satisfaction during the later years. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture, Japanese American Culture

Lyman, Stanford M. – Society, 1973
Contrasts the life-styles and values of Nisei and Sansei Japanese-Americans. (JM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitude Change, Culture Conflict, Generation Gap

Harada, Violet H. – Children's Literature in Education, 1998
Discusses the work of Japanese-American writer Yoshiko Uchida, who accurately re-creates a sense of the past in her depictions of Japanese-Americans struggling to define their self-images. Examines Uchida's treatment of several sociocultural issues and themes reflected in her children's works dealing with pre-World War II and internment years. (RS)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Community, Elementary Education, Ethnicity
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
More than 300 men of Japanese descent refused to be drafted into the U.S. military in the 1940s, contending that they should not risk their lives for a country that had forced 120,000 Japanese-Americans, including them and their families, into internment camps. They would be willing to fight in World War II only after Japanese-Americans were…
Descriptors: War, Japanese Americans, Relocation, Patriotism
Ahn, Deborah C. – 1993
For one Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) university student who had been brought up by her Japanese grandparents, questions of who she was and how much upbringing and personal experiences had molded her were with her constantly. She questioned how much of her grandfather's and her mother's high expectations had to do with her lack of…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Family Influence, Higher Education, Japanese American Culture
ASIA Society, New York, NY. – 1977
This paper provides a topical listing of readings on Asia (mostly by Asians). This compilation was undertaken by the Asia Society Textbook Evaluation Project as a service to teachers and curriculum developers looking for materials on Asia for courses in a wide range of fields. In-depth evaluations of the readings are not made. Among the fifty-six…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bibliographies, Chinese Americans, Chinese Culture

Tanaka, Ronald – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1988
Explores the managerial behavior of sansei, third-generation Japanese-Americans, which directly conforms to neither Western nor native Japanese models, but which contains identifiable elements of each. (BJV)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Japanese American Culture, Japanese Americans, Leadership Styles

Miyamoto, S. Frank – Amerasia Journal, 1987
Although the Nisei ethnic group experienced much residential dispersal, members have not been absorbed into the majority group society, largely because of their tendency to maintain Japanese interpersonal style rather than accept the style of the United States. A primary cause of the Nisei's style is their expression of their subjective self. (VM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Immigrants
2000
This Historical Reader on "Japanese American Internment" in World War II introduces students to key events and issues during the period through the voices of people with firsthand experienced. Source documents and illustrations are arranged in chronological order and/or thematic units that establish context. Each selection is followed by…
Descriptors: Japanese American Culture, Japanese Americans, Middle Schools, Primary Sources