Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Programs Densho
Digital Archive Free searchable database containing over 700
transcribed and indexed video oral histories and 10,700 photos
and documents that trace Japanese American history from
immigration to wartime detention to civil rights-era redress.
Users include teachers, students, historical preservationists,
journalists, legal scholars, documentary makers, and the general
public. Densho trains hundreds of classroom teachers every year
on how to teach with primary sources about the World War II
incarceration of Japanese Americans. Densho Online Encyclopedia
The Densho Encyclopedia is a free and publicly accessible
website that provides concise, accurate, and balanced
information on many aspects of the Japanese American story
during World War II. It is designed and written for a non-
specialist audience that includes high school and college
students and instructors, multiple generations of Nikkei
community members, confinement sites preservation groups, ama