Culture/Agriculture
Leaders/Famous Ifluencers
Dates
Facts
Facts
100

______ and _____ are japanese comics and japanese animation.

Manga and Anime

100

Who is First Japanese Governor of Hawaii?

George Ariyoshi

100

In what year did the Japanese people first arrive in America?

~1868

100

In 1988 surviving prisoners were awarded $20,000. Only _____ prisoners of the internment camps were still alive.

70,000   60,000  or . 90,000

60,000

100

How many Japanese people were forcefully put into internment camps during WWII?

~120,000

200

Some of the earliest televised anime to air in the United States were ______, _______, and _______.


Name Two

Gigantor, Astroboy and Speed racer

200

Who founded the Japanese American Citizens League?

Nikkei Shimin

200

What year did Seventeen survivors of a Japanese shipwreck get saved by the American freighter Auckland off the coast of California.

1850

200

Today, the four largest populations in the world of Japanese emigrants and descendants of Japanese live in the _____, _______, ______ and ______.

Name two

United States, Canada, Brazil and Peru

200

What Day did Pearl Harbor get Bombed?

December 7, 1941

300

Name one place that detainees had to irrigate and cultivate.

 located in desolate spots such as Poston, in the Arizona desert, and Tule Lake, California, at a dry mountain lake bed.

300

__________ is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. Famous for his Studio Ghibli movies.

Hayao Miyazaki

300

What Year did Japanese students arrive in the United States, supported by the Japan Mission of the Reformed Church in America.

1866

300

How many islands is Japan made out of?

6754 or 6852

6852 islands

300
How many Japanese-American Men Served in WWII?
~30,000
400

The traditional cuisine of Japan ______ is based on rice with miso soup and other dishes

washoku

400

_______ becomes the highest ranking Asian American politician in U.S. history when he succeeds Robert Byrd as President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Daniel K. Inouye

400

What year did the first official intake of Japanese migrants to a U.S.-controlled entity occur?

1885

400

What does Japan mean in Japanese?

Sun light or Sun origin

Sun origin
400

What percent of the Japanese-Americans were in internment camps but had never been to Japan?

66%

500

Japanese Americans remain involved in these industries today, particularly in southern _____ and to some extent, _____ by the areas' year-round agricultural economy, and descendants of Japanese pickers who adapted farming in _____ and ______ state.


Name Three

Oregon Arizona California and Washington

500

________ becomes the first U.S.-born Japanese American actor to win an Academy Award for his role in the film Visas and Virtue.

Chris Tashima

500

What year did the Raformed Church in America Association get started?

1859

500

There are about ________ Japanese Americans, which includes ______ Japanese Americans with pure Japanese ancestry, according to the 2010 census in the US.


Which goes where?

763,325    2,123,000  1,100,313   689,060   700,254   1,304,286   567,233     1,095,249

1,304,286 and 763,325

500

How many internment camps were there in America and in what states? Name at least three correct states.

There were 10 Japanese internment camps in the United States located in remote areas in seven western U.S. states including California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona.