Heart Mountain Baseball team photo

Past Exhibition

More Than a Game

Sport in the Japanese American Community

Browse this exhibition’s resources below for a bibliography and links to websites featuring Japanese Americans in sports.

March 04, 2000 - February 18, 2001

Japanese American National Museum

Browse this exhibition’s resources below for a bibliography and links to websites featuring Japanese Americans in sports.

March 04, 2000 - February 18, 2001

Japanese American National Museum

Browse this exhibition’s resources below for a bibliography and links to websites featuring Japanese Americans in sports.

Bibliography

Books on Japanese Americans and Sports

Leonard Arrington. The Price of Prejudice. Logan, UT: The Topaz Museum, 1997 (D 769.8 A6 A77)

Mike Bonner, Paul Kariya. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999 (GV 848.5 K37 B66)

Dorothea Buckingham, Essential Guide to Sumo. Honolulu, HI: Bess Press, 1994 (GV 1197 B83)

Dan Cisco, Hawaii Sports History Facts. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1999 (GV 584 H3 C57)

Ben Finney, Surfing: A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996 (GV 840 58 F555)

John M. Ito, Golf is a FORE Letter Word Like Love. Los Angeles, CA: I.T.O. Publishing Company, 1987 (GV 961 I89)

Ken Mochizuki, Baseball Saved Us. Dom Lee, illus. New York, NY: Lee & Lows Book, Inc., 1993 (PZ7 M7 1284 Bas)

Lensey Namioka, Yang the Second and her Admirers. Kees de Kiefte, illus. New York, NY: Little, Brown & Co., 1998 (PZ7 N1426 Yan)

Mark Schilling, Sumo: A Fan’s Guide. Lynn Matsuoko, illus. Tokyo: The Japan Times, 1994 (GV 11197 S3)

Lora Shamoff, Grand Sumo: The Living Sport and Tradition. Lynn Matsuoko, illus. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1993 (GV 1197 S48 1993)

Peter Westbrook and Tej Hazarika, Harnessing Anger. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 1997 (GV 1144.2 W48 W48)

Robert Whiting, You Gotta Have Wa. New York, NY: Vintage Departures, 1989 (GV 863.77 A1 W47)

Virginia Euwer Wolf, BAT 6. New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc., 1998 (PZ 7 W82129 Bat)

Kristi Yamaguchi and Greg Brown, Kristi Yamaguchi: Always Dream. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1998 (GV 850 Y36 Y36)

Books with Japanese American Sports References

Dina Can, Terry Hong, and Jeff Yang, Eastern Standard Time. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997, pp. 171-202 (E169.1 E22)

Bob Dye, Hawaii Chronicles II. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1998, p. 44 (DU 629 H7 H394)

Akemi Kikumura, Eiichiro Azuma, and Darcie Iki, The Kona Coffee Story. Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum, 1995, pp. 40-41 (HD9199 U5 K664)

Catherine Lang, O-Bon in Chimunesu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1996, pp. 82-84. (F 1089.5 C47 L36)

David Mas Masumoto, Country Voices. Tom Uyemaruko, illus. Del Rey: Inaka Countryside Publications, 1987, p. 71 (F 869 D29 M37)

Toyo Miyatake, Toyo Miyatake: Behind the Camera, 1923-1979. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1984, pp. 154-177 (TR647 M48 A4)

Ichiro Mike Murase, Little Tokyo: One Hundred Years in Pictures. Los Angeles: Visual Communications, 1983, pp. 11-12, 18-19, 78, 110, 125, 144-145 (F869 L89 J354)

Gordon Nakayama, Issei. Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1984, pp. 122-125 (F 1035 J3 N34)

Brian Niiya, ed., Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present. New York, NY: Facts on File, Inc., 1993, under Nikkei sports, Olympic games, swimming, sumo, baseball (E 184 J3 J3355)

Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese Visitor. Yuko Green, illus. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1996, pp. 15-24 (G155 A1 N56)

Paul R. Spickard, Japanese Americans. New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 1996, p. 83 (E 184 J3 S7)

Ruth Suenaga and Young Sook Kim, Korean Children’s Day. Nanl Kyong-Nan, illus. Boston, MA: Modern Curriculum Press, 1992, pp. 17-19 (PZ7596913 KO)

Ronald Takaki, Pau Hana. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1983, pp. 103-104 (HD 8039 S86 U64)

David Takami, Executive Order 9066, 50 Years Before and 50 Years After: A History of JAs in Seattle. Seattle, WA: Wing Luke Asian Museum, 1992, pp. 22-23, 25 (F899 S49 J379)

Toyo Takata, Nikkei Legacy: The Story of Japanese-Canadians from Settlement to Today. Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1983, pp. 44-46, 53, 166 (F1035 J3734)

Sandra C. Taylor, Jewel of the Desert. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993, p. 84 (D769.8 A6 T39)

Michael O. Tunnell and George Chilcoat, The Children of Topaz. New York, NY: Holiday House, 1996, pp. 36, 43, 49, 52, 57 (D 769.8 A6 T86)

Tamio Wakayama, Kikyo: Coming Home to Powell Street. Madeira Park, Canada: Harbour Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992, pp. 15, 123 (F 1089.5 V22 W34)

Westridge Young Writers Workshop, Kids Explore America’s Japanese American Heritage. Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 1996, pp. 11-12, 40-43, 94-95 (E184 J3 K454)

Charles H. Young, Helen R. Y. Reid, and W. A. Corrothers, The Japanese Canadians. New York, NY: Arno Press, 1978, pp. 142-3, 155 (F1035 Jy7)

1990 Nisei Week 50th Anniversary, pp. 82-83 (F869 L89 J288)

Videos

Chip Taylor Communications, Diamonds in the Rough. Nisei Baseball Research Center

Spectrum Hawaii, Honolulu Stadium. Hawaii: Hawaii Public Television, 1966

Online Resources

Baseball

Basketball

Martial Arts

Other Sports

Miscellaneous

SPORTSCASTERS

Akemi Takei

Rob Fukuzaki

 

SPORTS ORGANIZATION

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