Japanese Internment Education

1930s Japanese Canadian Theme Day Kit


Vintage items (baseball glove, rice sack, 2 gardening tools, fishing new mending tool, fishing boat light, boat navigation tool, book of records), historical toys (31 Kendama, 16 Hanafuda card games), 31 reprinted issues of a newspaper, white gloves, teacher resource documents This kit includes materials for a fun social studies theme day. It is meant to go with the Japanese Canadian Internment Kit. The materials and activities in this kit allow students to take the perspective of a Japanese Canadian child living in the Lower Mainland before they were forced out of their homes during WWII. Students can explore vintage items and make inferences about them, play with vintage toys and games, read historical documents, and take part in activities that mimic childhood in the 1930s.
Date Published:2026

Vintage items (baseball glove, rice sack, 2 gardening tools, fishing new mending tool, fishing boat light, boat navigation tool, book of records), historical toys (31 Kendama, 16 Hanafuda card games), 31 reprinted issues of a newspaper, white gloves, teacher resource documents This kit includes materials for a fun social studies theme day. It is meant to go with the Japanese Canadian Internment Kit. The materials and activities in this kit allow students to take the perspective of a Japanese Canadian child living in the Lower Mainland before they were forced out of their homes during WWII. Students can explore vintage items and make inferences about them, play with vintage toys and games, read historical documents, and take part in activities that mimic childhood in the 1930s.

Date Published:2026

Japanese Canadian Internment and Disposession : Broken Promises Poster Set


20 posters. Kit contains: 20 roll-up posters featuring information from the Broken Promises museum exhibit curated by Japanese Canadian community groups like the Nikkei National Museum.
Date Published:2026

Japanese Canadian Internment Kit


Teacher books: Within the Barbed Wire Fence; This is My Own; Uprooted Again; Gaman Perseverance; and Road to Justice. 1 binder with lesson plans, 58 natural resource station cards, 41 picture bride narration cards, 28 Langley community cards, 3 copies of Langley's Japanese Canadian book, 2 copies of Rosina Eto's family album, 8 sets of Taiken card game, 5 Karizumai, 2 clotheslines and 8 clips, 9 sets of redress cards, 2 redress pamphlets, various items representing the contemporary Japanese Canadian community (in a tote bag). This Japanese Canadian Internment Kit includes lesson plans, books, station cards, games, and links to free documentaries to help grade 5 and 10 teachers teach a comprehensive unit about Japanese Canadian internment during WWII. It also includes lessons that show how internment policies were the outcome of years of anti-Asian racism. Post-war lessons demonstrate how Japanese Canadians continued to advocate for human rights during the redress movement and demonstrate resilience today. Topics include: early immigrants, their participation in the natural resource industries, and their involvement in the labour movement; picture brides; Japanese Canadians in Langley and other pre-war Japanese Canadian communities; Japanese Canadian internment and dispossession; resistance to injustice and advocacy for human rights; the deportation (“repatriation” of Japanese Canadians; Japanese Canadian redress; and the contemporary Japanese Canadian community.
Date Published:2026

Teacher books: Within the Barbed Wire Fence; This is My Own; Uprooted Again; Gaman Perseverance; and Road to Justice. 1 binder with lesson plans, 58 natural resource station cards, 41 picture bride narration cards, 28 Langley community cards, 3 copies of Langley's Japanese Canadian book, 2 copies of Rosina Eto's family album, 8 sets of Taiken card game, 5 Karizumai, 2 clotheslines and 8 clips, 9 sets of redress cards, 2 redress pamphlets, various items representing the contemporary Japanese Canadian community (in a tote bag). This Japanese Canadian Internment Kit includes lesson plans, books, station cards, games, and links to free documentaries to help grade 5 and 10 teachers teach a comprehensive unit about Japanese Canadian internment during WWII. It also includes lessons that show how internment policies were the outcome of years of anti-Asian racism. Post-war lessons demonstrate how Japanese Canadians continued to advocate for human rights during the redress movement and demonstrate resilience today. Topics include: early immigrants, their participation in the natural resource industries, and their involvement in the labour movement; picture brides; Japanese Canadians in Langley and other pre-war Japanese Canadian communities; Japanese Canadian internment and dispossession; resistance to injustice and advocacy for human rights; the deportation (“repatriation” of Japanese Canadians; Japanese Canadian redress; and the contemporary Japanese Canadian community.

Date Published:2026

Japanese Canadian Internment Picture Book Kit


9 books: The Sakura Tree, Kimiko Murakami, Naomi's Tree, Shizue's Path, Meet David Suzuki, Ot Began With a Page, Baseball Saved Us, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, Write to Me. This Japanese Canadian Internment Picture Book Kit features five books about Japanese Canadian internment and four books about Japanese American internment. It would pair well with the Japanese Canadian Internment Kit or the Japanese Canadian Internment Lit Circle Kits.
Date Published:2026

9 books: The Sakura Tree, Kimiko Murakami, Naomi's Tree, Shizue's Path, Meet David Suzuki, Ot Began With a Page, Baseball Saved Us, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, Write to Me. This Japanese Canadian Internment Picture Book Kit features five books about Japanese Canadian internment and four books about Japanese American internment. It would pair well with the Japanese Canadian Internment Kit or the Japanese Canadian Internment Lit Circle Kits.

Date Published:2026

Japanese Internment Grade 5 Literature Circle


38 books: One Being Yukiko (4), Stealing Home (6), Torn Apart (4), Road to Justice (4), Heart of a Champion (4), When the Cherry Blossoms Fell (4), Naomi's Road (4), Obasan's Boots (4), Paper Wishes (4). This kit includes enough novels for two one class to engage in a lit circle focused on Japanese Canadian internment (1 title is Japanese American). These books would provide a perfect supplement to topics explored in grade five social studies; internments and the treatment of minority peoples are included in the grade five curriculum. Lessons about Japanese Canadian internment can be found in the supplementary kit listed below and in the district’s Sharepoint.Two kits are available for more students.
Date Published:2026

38 books: One Being Yukiko (4), Stealing Home (6), Torn Apart (4), Road to Justice (4), Heart of a Champion (4), When the Cherry Blossoms Fell (4), Naomi's Road (4), Obasan's Boots (4), Paper Wishes (4). This kit includes enough novels for two one class to engage in a lit circle focused on Japanese Canadian internment (1 title is Japanese American). These books would provide a perfect supplement to topics explored in grade five social studies; internments and the treatment of minority peoples are included in the grade five curriculum. Lessons about Japanese Canadian internment can be found in the supplementary kit listed below and in the district’s Sharepoint.Two kits are available for more students.

Date Published:2026

Japanese Internment Secondary Literature Circle


6/7 each: They Called Us Enemy, Those Who Helped Us, We Are Not Free, Weedflower, Caged Eagles. In grade ten social studies, students learn about Japanese Canadian internment. These books about Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment will allow them to build background knowledge and make connections between social studies and English class.
Date Published:2026