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Japanese and Japanese American Youth in Literature

Connie S. Zitlow and Lois Stover

Although Asians Americans, including those of Japanese heritage, have lived in the United States for over years, too little about their experiences, their history, the country of their heritage, and their literature is reflected in the curriculum of the public schools. Given the existence of many educational, commercial, and cultural alliances between Japan and the United States, it is vital that the knowledge students acquire, both about Japan as a country and about Americans of Japanese heritage, is accurate, current, and moves beyond isolated facts. While some teachers might use social studies textbooks and view informational books as appropriate classroom materials useful for independent research, many do not also consider using the many fine works of literature that include interesting and accurate information about Japan and Japanese Americans in achieving objectives related to the history and culture of these people so important to the heritage of the United States.

This article includes selections of outstanding literary works in which aspects of Japanese life are embedded in the narrative, an example of how literature and writing can be used as the basis for a history unit focusing on Japanese Americans, a summary of curricular and literary issues to consider, and an annotated bibliography of literary works appropriate for use in secondary classrooms.

Japan in Literature

Sometimes looking at social and cultural expectations about everyday life is an interesting way to begin learning about a country and its people. As the following excerpt shows, the perspective of a person telling a story or writing a memoir brings to light aspects of life in one country as contrasted with daily life in another:

The man picks up the big silver stamp and readjusts the dates, rolling forward the days. I watch him as he stamps my pass: 5/25/90…. He pushes the st

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    • Island trilogy Books In Order

    1. The Love Ceiling ()
    2. Walter&#;s Muse ()

    Novels

    1. My Mother Is Not Married to My Father ()
    2. It&#;s Just Too Much ()
    3. Norman Schnurman, Average Person ()
    4. Who Did It, Jenny Lake? ()
    5. Jason&#;s Women ()
    6. Molly By Any Other Name ()
    7. Take a Chance, Gramps! ()
    8. A Place for Grace ()
    9. Talent Night ()
    10. The Eclipse of Moonbeam Dawson ()
    11. To Jaykae ()
    12. Maya and the Cotton Candy Boy ()
    13. The Reinvention of Albert Paugh ()

    Picture Books

    1. Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat ()
    2. No Dear, Not Here ()
    3. Dear Ichiro ()
    4. Winston of Churchill ()
    5. Five Famous Mice Meet Winston of Churchill ()
    6. Jake and Emma&#;s Island Getaway ()

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    The Love Ceiling

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    After the death of her Japanese American mother, sixty four year old Anne Kuroda Duppstadt finds the courage to confront the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist. When a former art professor invites her to his island art studio, she begins pursuing her lifelong dream to become an artist in her own right. But the needs of her family tug at her heart. Her thirty two year old daughter&#;s love life is falling apart, and Annie s husband, facing retirement, struggles with depression, leading her to conclude, There is a glass ceiling for women&#;
    and it s made out of the people we love.

    draws readers into the soul of a universal theme for women: the pull between family and creative self expression. It is the story of a daughter, a wife, a mother and grandmother, and a journey into creativity.

    Jason&#;s Women

    Lonesome and painfully shy, 16 year old Jason drools over the personal ads until he meets beautiful Thao Nguyen and her elderly sponsor.&#;Sparkles with wit and life from beginning to end.&#;Horn&#;A perfect balance between humor and sensitivity.&#;V

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    For this bookshelf, Yale Climate Connectons has selected 12 titles to illustrate how authors have tried meeting this challenge for different age levels, from pre-school to young adult. Four of these titles are new releases, suggesting that publishers sense a growing market for children’s books about climate change.

    But the fact that six of these titles feature polar bears, either as leading characters or as iconic images on their covers, suggests that authors, illustrators, and/or publishers have not kept up with the research on visualizing climate change. Images of polar bears, these studies have found, makes climate change seem a remote and distant problem in viewers’ eyes. What’s more, a recent study finds that Americans now more commonly associate climate change with images of extreme weather than with polar bears or ice. Perhaps when they take up their second or third book on climate change, today’s young readers will see beyond their polar bear picture books.

    As always, the descriptions of the titles listed below are drawn from the copy provided by their publishers. When two dates of publication are listed, the latter is for the paperback edition.

    Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, by Jean Davies Okimoto, Illustrated by Jeremiah Trammel (Endicott and Hugh Books , 34 pages, $ paperback)

    Churchill, Manitoba, is the polar bear capital of the world. Every winter, tourists flock to the tiny town to watch the bears hunt and frolic on the frozen waters of the Hudson Bay. This year, though, the tourists are in for a big surprise … Winston! A smart, fierce, brave bear, Winston of Churchill has noticed that his icy home is slowly melting away. He explains to the other bears why the ice is melting then, using the stirring words of his famous namesake, ral

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