Go For Broke National Education Center presents a new project completed in 2025 that explores the soldiers within each of the 10 War Relocation Authority camps during WWII. With support from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites grant, the highlights of the project include a listing of soldiers by each site and curated video clips from the Hanashi Oral History Collection. The project provides further overview and insight into the difficult decisions made by young men to serve their country, even as their families remained incarcerated behind barbed wire.

Hanashi Oral History Collection

The Hanashi (“to talk” in Japanese) Oral History Collection contains over 1,200 audiovisual interviews with Japanese Americans WWII veterans, along with their contemporaries of WWII and the Japanese American experience. These interviews capture the story of a historically underrepresented group and provide valuable insight into the Japanese American WWII experience and, specifically, Japanese American military service.

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Japanese American Confinement Site Grant

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Site Grant. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

This material received Federal financial assistance for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during WWII.

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Hanashi Oral History Collection

Japanese American Confinement Site Grant