Joy+Kogawa's+Obasan

[|Gallery Walk] Take this online gallery walk of artifacts from the WWII internment of Japanese Canadians.

The following link takes you to written accounts from eye witnesses to the bombing of Hiroshima. [|www.inicom.com/hibakusha]

The following link takes you to a Haiku web site/poetry contest. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry, so this site will aide you in writing your Haiku poems for //Obasan//. http://www.poetry.com/haiku/haikucontest.asp

The following link was organized as a tribute to Joy Kogawa and her writings. It shows pictures of the homes where she lived and provides many links to information about the author and her work. http://kogawa.homestead.com/ Photo of Joy Kogawa at Slocan with her family.

Here's an interesting movie trailer for an upcoming film about being Japanese Canadian. media type="youtube" key="l1-zVIWfriQ" Hapa-ness Trailer

Canadian footage (from Broadcast 1) about one family's story regarding the Japanese displacement and internment. media type="youtube" key="tC_tYCPFoXc"

Here is a link to a brief Video by Living Voices productions. It discusses a play entitled "Within the Silence" which is used to educate Americans about the Japanese Internment in this country during WWII. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTuTTDea-cg&eurl=

A Nisei Story--This is a video clip of a Japanese American's recollections of her family's experiences in the United States during WWII. media type="youtube" key="QqlNthzBU2I"

This is footage about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. media type="youtube" key="FeCpIKoKTkk"