JAPANESE AMERICANS AND THE WAR IN COLORADO

Nikkei Amerikajin To Senso: Rokujunengo No Shinjitsu: Kororado Nihonjin Monogatari. By Eiichi Imada. Osaka, Paredo, Tokyo: Seiunsha, 2005. 339 pp. Photos, illustrations, and bibliography. ¥1800.

Off the Fat of the Land: The Denver Post's Story of Japanese Internment during World War II. By Kumiko Takahara. Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 2003. 198 pp. Maps, tables, photos, illustrations, bibliography, notes, and appendix. $16.95 (paper).

Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado during World War II. By Robert Harvey. Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004. 246 pp. Photos, notes, and index. $85.00 (cloth).

Koko Ga Watashi No Kokyo Desu: Kororado San Ruisu Bare Nihonjin Nyushokusha No Monogatari. By Harumi Kato. Tokyo: Shinpusha, 2004. 191 pp. Maps, photo, illustrations, and bibliography. ¥1800.

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
University of California at Los Angeles

Kenichiro Shimada
Gordon W. Prange Collection
University of Maryland Libraries

When considered together, the four recent monographs discussed below greatly solidify our understanding of the experience of Japanese Americans in Colorado during World War II.