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Kanzaki: History of Japan's Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource traces the changes in Japanese literature from its beginnings in the Nara period through the present.
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Digital History

Digital History: World War Ii and Japanese American Relocation [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th
This lesson plan is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at Japanese aggression in China and Indochina prior to and during World War II, the quandary in the United States of whether or...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Stone Lanterns [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A study of the stone lanterns that can be found in Japanese gardens. Students will learn about their history and symbolism, and create lanterns of their own out of clay. This is designed to be in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Alan G. Chalk Guides to Japanese Films

For Students 9th - 10th
Reviews of 26 Japanese movies that each include a list of suggested reading materials, plot summary, suggested grades, and a brief lesson plan. They are organized into two groups: one for students of literature and the humanities, and...
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History Link

Bertha Pitts Campbell: An Oral History

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Washington State Oral History Project comes this captivating interview with Bertha Pitts Campbell, an African American woman and early Seattle civil rights worker. Campbell talks about the discrimination and segregation she...
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About Korea: History

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief but informative timeline of Korean history divided into the kingdoms and dynasties that made up this country's history.
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Osaka Museum of Natural History

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on this natural history museum in Japan. Many links to more information are on this site. Japanese text also available to download.
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Article
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The History Teacher: Incarceration of the Japanese Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
A historical article in which a well known historian argues that given today's current political climate, what happened to the Japanese Americans in World War 2 could happen again.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The World of Haiku

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A productive, technologically relevant site that provides a lesson plan on the Japanese Haiku. Complete with educational objectives and extensive student-centered lesson development.
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University of Washington

Uw Libraries: Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers an in-depth look at the plight of Japanese Americans during World War II who were forced into American style concentration, or internment, camps to wait out the war.
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Brown University

Brown University Library Center: Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History

For Students 9th - 10th
Showcases a beautiful Japanese scroll that depicts Commodore Matthew Perry's landing in Japan in 1854 and a set of lithographs by Willam Heine that illustrate Perry's expedition. These visual images accompanied by student essays are...
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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Densho Project is a digital archive of oral history interviews, historical photographs and related documents that captures, shares and preserves the experiences of Japanese Americans before, during and after World War II.
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University of California: Jarda: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital gateway to numerous archives of primary source material on the Japanese American internment during World War II.
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Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: Japanese American Internment

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive interactive learning module explores Japanese-American Internment during World War II and includes links to primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, and numerous other outside resources.
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University of California

History Project: The Evacuation of the Japanese Following Pearl Harbor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson on Japanese internment during WWII in which students read and analyze original text to recount events and then evaluate the consequences brought about by domestic policies after Pearl Harbor.
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442nd Regimental Combat Team Historical Society:wwii Japanese American Soldiers

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel the history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team through these primary documents preserved from WWII. Topics include the activation and origin of the team, and battle history, honors and tributes.
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Curated OER

History Matters: Japan Responds to Japanese Exclusion

For Students 9th - 10th
An editorial from the Japan Times and Mail denounced the the U.S. Senate's inclusion of the National Origins Act within the Immigration Act of 1924 that limited the immigration of Japanese to the United States. Read the background of the...
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Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
History and definition of writing, plus extensive information on the types, families, and regions of written languages. For each language, you'll find information on when and where it was used, the people who used it, and what it looked...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Pearl Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the excellent PBS site based on Joy Hakim's A History of US, this focuses on the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the ramifications of the attack. You can access primary sources and photographs to bring this part of...
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Digital History

Digital History: Trail Gunner Joe

For Students 9th - 10th
A charismatic demagogue, Joe McCarthy grew up on a Wisconsin farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. While still a teenager, he established a thriving business as a chicken farmer. He dropped out of school after eighth grade, but...
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Japanese Woodblock Printing by Hiroshi Yoshida

For Students 9th - 10th
Online version of a very detailed book on woodblock printing. Text and images are available as well as author's preface. Very good information now available online.
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Yahoo! Kids Japan: History of Japan Timeline

For Students 6th - 8th
Listen to an animated song about teeth, with advice for keeping them healthy and clean. Read-along lyrics make this resource particularly useful in English language learning settings and with beginning readers, but it also fits 21st...
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Japan: The Official Guide: History & Culture: Experience Japanese Culture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Understand the culture of Japan from architecture to Bonsai to storytelling and tallisman.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated overviews of the art of Japan by time period.

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