TEN VISITS REVISED, 1999, 69 pages is an easy-to-read guide book to all ten WWII Japanese American internment camps.

The story of Japanese Americans during WWII is of "race prejudice, war hysteria and political ineptitude'' and of young Nisei serving in the US Armed Forees while their parents and relatives are locked up behind barb-wire internment camps.

The book includes beautiful color photos of memorial monuments, sketch maps to aid in locating the isolated, hard--to-find camps and short commentary on the characteristics of each internment center plus Struggle For Redress, Internment of Other Groups, Internee and Non-internee essays, brief chronology and bibliography.

Also there are summary charts showing location, historical registry, highway markers, preservation/maintenance info, related exhibits, museums and National and California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund projects related to each camp

$15.95 plus tax from Japanese American National Bookstore,

369 E. First St. Los Angeles, CA 90012

Order line: 888-769-5559. AIso, try stores where Asian American books are sold.

by Frank & Joanne Iritani, authors

Excerpts from Ten Visits Revised

Page 28 -- Poston, Arizona Relocation Center internees came from Southern California, Kern, Fresno, Monterey and the Sacramento areas and consisted of 3 camps. Send contributions to: Poston Monument Fund, c/o Union Bank, 700 L St., Sacramento, CA 95814. (Incorrect in the book.)

Page 10 -- Gila River was the other Relocation Center in Arizona and is located toward southeast Arizona on Gila River Indian Tribal land. Internees came from the Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles areas. The center consisted of two sites: Canal and Butte camps.

Page 3, Preface -- The Japanese American National Museum is grateful to Frank & Joanne Irilani for donating all proceeds from the sale of their book Ten Visits Revised to the Museum.
(Irene Hirano, Executive Director & President)

Page 67 -- Unsung Heroes: Our Non-Nikkei Friends

There are many individuals and groups who helped and befriended people of Japanese ancestry in various ways during W WII in their trying times.

Governor Ralph Carr of Colorado welcomed the evacuees to his state when all others refused. (Amache is in S. E. Colorado)

Margaret Gunderson, a dedicated Christian teacher befriended and guided many young people at Tri-State High School in Tule Lake Camp in northern California.

The American Friends Service Committee, some Methodist Churches, the American Civil Liberties Union helped with civil rights, citizenship, immigration and other legal matters. They need to be duly recognized.