Japanese American Veterans Clubs and Related Organizations

• 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Club and Education Center
  • Address: 520 Kamoku St., Honolulu, HI 96826
  • Phone: (808) 946-0272
  • http://www.100thbattalion.org
• 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Club, Maui Chapter
  • Address: 4090 Lower Kula Road, Kula, HI 94790
  • Phone: (808) 878-6584
• 100th/442nd Veterans Association
  • Address: P.O. Box 323, Gardena, CA 90248
• 442nd RCT Veterans Club
  • Address: 933 Wiliwili St., Honolulu, HI 96826
  • Phone: (808) 949-7997
  • Fax: (808) 949-1539
• 1399th Veterans Club
  • Address: 3038 Pacific Heights Road, Honolulu, HI 96813
  • Phone: (808) 533-6896
• A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the US Constitution, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  • http://amhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/
• Center for Oral History, University of Hawaiʻi
  • http://www.oralhistory.hawaii.edu/
• Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites, National Park Service
  • http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/anthropology74/index.htm
• Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
  • http://www.densho.org
• Discover Nikkei
  • http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/
• Go for Broke Educational Foundation
  • Phone: (310) 328-0907
  • Email: pr@goforbroke.org
  • http://www.goforbroke.org/
• Hawaiʻi Army Museum Society
  • http://www.hiarmymuseumsoc.org
• Hawaiʻi Nisei Story: Americans of Japanese Ancestry during World War II
  • http://nisei.hawaii.edu Note: As of 2023 the original site appears to be down; an archived copy from 2019 can be accessed through the Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine.
• Hawaiʻi State Archives
  • Address: Iolani Palace Grounds, Honolulu, HI 96813
  • Phone: (808) 586-0329
  • Fax: (808) 586-0330
  • http://ags.hawaii.gov/archives/
• Hawaiʻi‘s Plantation Village
  • http://www.hawaiiplantationvillage.org/
• Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection (Japanese-language newspapers from the Hoover Institution’s Japanese Diaspora Initiative)
  • https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/
• Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University
  • http://www.fsu.edu/~ww2/
• Japan-America Society of Hawaiʻi
  • http://www.jashawaii.org
• Japanese American Citizens League
  • Address: 1765 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115
  • Phone: (415) 921-5225
  • Email: jacl@jacl.org
  • https://www.jacl.org/
• Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (LA)
  • http://www.jaccc.org
• Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Archives (from UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library)
  • http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/jacs/index.html
• Japanese American History Archives
  • Address: 40 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
  • Phone: (415) 776-0661
  • http://www.amacord.com/fillmore/museum/jt/jaha/jaha.htm
• Japanese American Historical Society, Southern California
  • Address: P.O. Box 3164, Torrance, CA 90410
  • Phone: (310) 326-0608
• Japanese American Military History Collective
  • http://www.ndajams.omeka.net/
• Japanese American Museum of San Jose
  • http://www.jamsj.org
• Japanese American National Museum
  • Address: 369 East First Street, Los Angeles, California 90012
  • Phone: (213) 625-0414
  • Fax: (213) 625-1770
  • http://www.janm.org/
• Japanese American National Library
  • Address: P.O. Box 590598, San Francisco, CA 94159
  • Phone: (415) 567-5006
• Japanese American Oral History Project
  • Address: California State University Fullerton, P.O. Box 34080, Fullerton, CA 92634
  • Phone: (714) 773-3580
• Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives, Online Archive of California
  • http://jarda.cdlib.org
• Japanese American Veterans Association (DC)
  • https://java.wildapricot.org/
• Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi
  • Address: 2454 So. Beretania St., Honolulu, HI 96826
  • Phone: (808) 945-7633
  • Fax: (808) 944-1123
  • http://www.jcch.com/
  • Note: JCCH has also published a directory of internees from people Hawaiʻi: https://interneedirectory.jcch.com/
• Library of Congress Digital Collections: Ansel Adams Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
  • https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-this-collection/
• Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
  • http://ualr.edu/lifeinterrupted-2race/
• Manzanar National Historic Site
  • http://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
• Maui 442nd Veterans Club
  • Address: 4090 Lower Kula Road, Kula, HI 94790
  • Phone: (808) 878-6584
• Maui AJA Veterans Inc.
  • Address: 61 East Kauai Street, Kahului, HI 96732
  • Phone: (808) 877-3658
• MIS Club of Southern California
  • Address: 707 East Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
  • Phone: (213) 626-0414
• MIS Veterans Club
  • Address: P.O. Box 3021, Honolulu, HI 96802
  • Phone: (808) 737-7159
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • Address: 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
  • Phone: 1-866-272-6272
  • Fax: (301) 837-0483
  • http://www.archives.gov/index.html
• National Japanese American Historical Society
  • Address: 1684 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
  • Phone: (415) 921-5007
  • Fax: (415) 921-5087
  • Email: njahs@njahs.org
  • https://www.njahs.org/
• National Japanese American Memorial (DC)
  • https://www.njamemorial.org/
• Nikkei West: Japanese American All-English Newspaper
  • http://nikkeiwest.com/1/
• Nisei Veterans Memorial Center
  • Address: P.O. Box 216, Kahului, HI 96732
  • Phone: (808) 244-6862
  • http://www.nvmc.org/
• Oahu AJA Veterans Council
  • Address: 803 Hahaʻione Street, Honolulu, HI 96825
  • Phone: (808) 395-5585
• Soldiers and the Camps: an extensive list of Japanese American WWII soldiers and, for some, the internment camps where they were confined
  • http://charlotte.neuro.brown.edu/~jamesmcilwain/
• Tropic Lightning Museum
  • Address: Directorate of Community Activities, USAG-HI, Schofield Barracks, HI 96857
  • Phone: (808) 655-0438
  • Fax: (808) 655-8301
  • https://home.army.mil/hawaii/index.php/my-fort/recreation/tropic-lightning-museum
• US Army Center for Military History
  • https://history.army.mil/
• U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi
  • Address: Museum Activity, STOP 319, Directorate of Community Activities, CRD, USAG-HI (APVG-GAR-LM)
  • Phone: (808) 438-2822
  • Fax: (808) 438-2819
  • http://www.hiarmymuseumsoc.org/
• US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project, University of Colorado
  • https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/libraries/norlin-library/special-collections-archives-preservation/scap-collections
• U.S.S. Arizona Memorial Museum
  • Address: 1 Arizona Memorial Place, Honolulu, HI 96818
  • Phone: (808) 422-2771
  • Fax: (808) 483-8608
  • http://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm
• U.S.S. Bowfin Submarine Museum
  • Address: 11 Arizona Memorial Drive, Honolulu, HI 96818
  • Phone: (808) 423-1341
  • Fax: (808) 422-5201
  • http://www.bowfin.org/
• USS Missouri Memorial
  • https://ussmissouri.org/
• Veterans History Project
  • Address: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington DC 20540-4615
  • Phone: (202) 707-4916
  • Message Line: 1-888-371-5848
  • Fax:(202) 252-2046
  • Email: vohp@loc.gov
  • http://www.loc.gov/vets/
  • In particular, note the stories featured on the VHP’s “Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke” page: http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-asianpacific.html
• War Relocation Authority (WRA) Camps in Arizona, University of Arizona
  • http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html
• WRA Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945, Online Archive of California
  • http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0/
• Wisconsin Veterans Museum
  • Address: 30 W. Mifflin St., Madison, WI 53703
  • Phone: (608) 267-1799
  • http://wisvetsmuseum.com
• World War II Veterans Committee
  • http://www.wwiivets.com/home.htm