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byGail Dubrow, Donna Graves and Jill Shiraki
California (General)
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Religion (General)
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Nakamaki, Hirochika. “The History of Japanese Christian Churches and theConsciousness of Japanese Christians in Sacramento, California.” In collection ofJapanese American National Museum.
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1924-1941,” Western Historical Quarterly 27:3 (1996): 280-301.
Individual Japantowns
Alameda“Buddhist Temple of Alameda.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Preparedby Alex Yamato, 1980.
“Buddhist Temple of Alameda.” In Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First
100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“Buena Vista United Methodist Church,” in A Centennial Legacy: History of theJapanese Christian Missions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.
Alvarado“Alvarado Japanese Association Building.” California Historic Resources Inventory
Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1980.
Arroyo Grande
Asian/Pacific Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay. Exhibit compiled andbooklet edited by members of the Black Gold System Advisory Board, 1995.
“Troop 413, Santa Lucia American Council, Boy Scouts of America/Arroyo GrandeJapanese School.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex
Yamato, 1980.
AuburnCalifornia Japanese American Community Leadership Council. The Japantowns ofPlacer County. San Francisco, 2007.
Maeda, Wayne. Changing Dreams and Treasured Memories: A Story of JapaneseAmericans in the Sacramento Region. Sacramento: Japanese American Citizens League,
2000.

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“Tsuda’s Store/George K. Tsuda and Sons General Merchandise.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Kay Fujita, 1980.
Bakersfield“Buddhist Church of Bakersfield.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form.
Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
“Buddhist Church of Bakersfield.” In Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of theFirst 100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“55th Anniversary Service of the [Bakersfield] Japanese Methodist Church.”[Bakersfield?]: n.p., 1962.
“St. Andrews United Methodist Church/Bakersfield Japanese Methodist Church.”
California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
Berkeley“Berkeley Buddhist Temple” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First
100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“Euclid Hall.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato,
1979.
Fujii. Fujii, John Naoki. Self-published family history. Berkeley, 1986.
“Michi Nori/Life’s Path.” 2004. Life stories of Nisei members of Berkeley Methodist
United Church.
Yamada, Robert T. The Japanese Experience: The Berkeley Legacy, 1885-1995.
Berkeley: Historical Society, 1995.
Yanagisaki, Noritake. “Floriculture in Northern California.” M.A. diss., University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 1975.
Brawley“Brawley Buddhist Church” In Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First 100
Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
See Imperial Valley.

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Butte County“Biggs Rice Experiment Station.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form.
Prepared by Kay Fujita, 1980.
McDonald, Archie. The Japanese Experience in Butte County, California. Chico:
Association for Northern California Records and Research, 1993.
McGee, Joseph. A History of Biggs. N.p.: Osborn, 1953.
Rice in California. N.p.: California Rice Growers Cooperative, 1979.
Cambria“Chinese Temples.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Dr.
Nancy Way, 1980. Note: The Buddhist Temple forms the living room of the house.
Carmel“Point Lobos State Reserve/Point Lobos Canning Company.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1980.
Central California
Searles, Heather, and Christine Tanaka. We Came to Grow: Japanese Americans in theCentral Valley, 1869-1941. San Francisco: National Asian American
Telecommunications Association/KVIE Sacramento, 1999. Videorecording.
Wada, Yori. “Growing Up in Central California,” Amerasia Journal 13:2 (1986-1987):
3-20.
Chula Vista (South Bay)
“Chula Vista/Oyama Property Site.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form.
Prepared by Kay Fujita, 1979.
Estes, Donald H. South Bay Monogatari: Tales of the South Bay Nikkei Community. San
Diego: Tecolote Publications, 1996.
Colma“Japanese Cemetery.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex
Yamato, ca.1980.

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Concord“Concord Nippongo Gakko/Concord Japanese Language Institute.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1980.
“Kroeger Hall/Concord Nippon-go Gakko.” California Historic Resources Inventory
Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1979.
Cortez“Cortez Presbyterian Church’ In A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese ChristianMissions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.
Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in
California, 1919-1982. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Courtland“Courtland Bates School/Courtland Bates Oriental School Site.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Kay Fujita, 1980.
Cutler
“G.R. Paul Seed Co./K. Shinoda.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form.
Prepared by Isami Arifuki Waugh, 1980.
Delano“Delano Buddhist Church’ In Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First 100
Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“Delano Nihonmachi.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami
Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
“Sierra Vista Ranch, Di Giorgio Corporation/Kawasaki Labor Camp, Sierra Vista Camp#2.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh,
1980.
Del Rey
Masumoto, David Maso. Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American
Family Farm Community. Del Rey, Calif.: Inaka Countryside Publications, 1987.
-------. Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,1998.
See information on Del Rey, California, in Planted in Good Soil.

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Dinuba“Dinuba Buddhist Church” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First 100
Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“Palm United Methodist Church” in A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese
Christian Missions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.
El Centro“El Centro Buddhist Church” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First
100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
See Imperial Valley.
FlorinBrown, Alice Margaret. “Japanese in Florin, California.” University of California
Berkeley: Bancroft Library, 1913.
———. “The Japanese in Florin,” Golden Notes (Sacramento County Historical
Society) 21:1 (Spring 1975): 15-20.
“Florin Buddhist Church.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by
Cathy Ariki, 1979.
Florin Buddhist Church 50th Anniversary Pamphlet. Florin Buddhist Church Fujinkai,
1969.
Maeda, Wayne. Changing Dreams and Treasured Memories: A Story of JapaneseAmericans in the Sacramento Region. Sacramento: Japanese American Citizens League,
2000.
Millis, H.A. The Japanese Problem in the United States. New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1915. Chap. 7, “Japanese Farming: Some Community Observations,” focuseson Florin and the Vaca Valley.
Tsukamoto, Mary, and Elizabeth Pinkerton. We the People: A Story of Internment in
America. Elk Grove: Laguna Publishers, 1988.
See information on Florin in Planted in Good Soil.

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Fowler“Buddhist Church of Fowler” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First
100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
“Central California Farmers Co-op, Sumida General Store.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
“Fowler Free Methodist Church” in A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese
Christian Missions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.
Kikumura-Yano, Akemi. Through Harsh Winters: The Life of a Japanese Immigrant
Woman. Novato: Chandler & Sharp, 1981.
Nakayama Social Club. In Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Nakayama Social
Club: Founded in 1918, Fowler-Oleander-Bowles, California. Fowler: Nakayama Social
Club, 1993.
Fremont“Peerless Bus Depot/Centerville Japanese Language School.” California Historic
Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1980.
FresnoAdams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs.
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, and Science. Washington, D.C.: Echolight
Corp., 1984.
“Alma’s, Service Cleaners, Tokiwa/Nihon Byoin – Hashiba Sanitarium.” California
Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1979.
American Loyalty League. Lest We Forget. Fresno: American Loyalty League, 1984.
Brockley, Anne, and Arida Taylor. “Japanese American Residential Desegregation,
Fresno, 1900-1980,” Fresno – Past & Present (Fall 1981) vol. 23, no. 3.
Clark, E. Todd. “The Japanese in Fresno County, California.” M.A. diss., Fresno State
College, 1960.
“Danish Creamery/Okonogi Hospital Site.” California Historic Resources Inventory
Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1979.
“Fresno Buddhist Church.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by
Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1979.

12“Fresno Buddhist Church,” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First 100
Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
Fresno Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. Go for Broke!: The Story of
the Japanese Americans who Fought for their Country in World War II in Europe and
the Pacific & A Photo history of the Japanese Americans of the Central Valley.
Presented by the American Loyalty League/Fresno Chapter of the Japanese American
Citizens League, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Posts 5869 and 8499, and the Fresno
Metropolitan Museum, October 6 - December 9, 1984. Fresno: Fresno Chapter of theJapanese American Citizens League, 1984.
“Fresno Landscape Gardeners’ Association.” In Plant, Preserve, Protect: A Publicationof the Professional Gardener’s Federation of Northern California. Lewis Kawahara, ed.
San Mateo: Asian American Curriculum Project, 2004.
“Fresno Rodo Domei Kai.” In Encyclopedia of Japanese American History. Brian Niiya,
ed. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001, pp. 164-165.
Hasegawa, Yoshino Tajiri. A Story of the Local Japanese as Reflected in Fresno
Newspapers: A Bibliography. Fresno: Fresno County Free Library, 1984.
Hasegawa, Yoshino Tajiri, and Keith Boettcher, eds. Success through Perseverance:
Japanese-Americans in the San Joaquin Valley, Kings, Madera, and Tulare Counties.
Fresno: Japanese-American Project, San Joaquin Valley Library System, 1980. Vols. 1-3.
Kikumura-Yano, Akemi. “Mukashi Banashi: Stories of the Past from Issei Women in
Fowler, California.” N.p.: n.d.
“Komoto’s Department Store/Kamikawa Brothers.” California Historic Resources
Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1979.
Pratt, Lowell Clark. A Weekly Miracle; How a California Weekly Newspaper Coped
with the Great Depression, World War II and the Evacuation of Japanese-Americans,
1926-1947. N.p.: Pratt, 1975.
Renge, Melvin, and Ernest Kazato, M.D., eds. 75th Anniversary of JapaneseCongregational Church, 1908-1983.
“Selma Japanese Mission Church.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form.
Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
75th Anniversary of the Fresno Buddhist Church, 1901-1976.
This is My Story, This is “Our Song”; United Japanese Christian Church. 100th
Anniversary of Christ United Methodist Church and 85th Anniversary of JapaneseCongregational Church.

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War Relocation Authority. Community Analysis Section. “Fresno County: The Countyin General,” Community Analysis Notes no. 11 (April 2, 1945). Washington, DC: 1945.
“West Fresno/Fresno Nihonmachi-Fresno Chinatown.” California Historic Resources
Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1979.
See information on Fresno in Planted in Good Soil.
Gardena“Gardena.” In Encyclopedia of Japanese American History, Brian Niiya, ed. New York:
Facts on File, Inc., 2001, pp. 171-172.
“Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute – Japanese Language School/Compton
Gakuen/Gardena Valley Japanese Community Center.” California Historic Resources
Inventory Form. Prepared by Michael Tanji, 1980.
Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, and Tanaka, George. The Early Gardena Valley and the Issei.
Gardena: Gardena Pioneer Project, 1987.
-------. “The Issei Community in Moneta and the Gardena Valley, 1900-1920,” Southern
California Quarterly 70:2, 1998: 127-158.
Kendis, Kaoru Oguri. A Matter of Comfort: Ethnic Maintenance and Ethnic Style among
Third-Generation Japanese Americans. New York: AMS Press, 1989.
Okamoto, Philip Motoo. “Evolution of a Japanese American Enclave: Gardena
California. A Case Study of Ethnic Community Change and Continuity.” Diss.:
University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
“South Bay History Project.” Oral history project by the South Bay Chapter of theJapanese Americans Citizens Leagues, 2003. www.southbayjacl.org
Tachibana, Judy M. City of Gardena: Historical Resource Survey Report. [Gardena?]:
City of Gardena, April 1981.
Takaki, Joan M. “An Ethnographic Study of Occupational Change of the Japanese in
Gardena.” M.A. diss., California State University, Dominquez Hills, 1985.
Tanimoto, Cathy Lynn. “Changing Japanese Ethnicity: A Case Study of Gardena,
California.” Diss., Louisiana State University, 1975.
Tatsukawa, Steve. “Gardena: Part One: A Saga of Youth, Drugs, and Middle Class
Misery,” Gidra 5:7 (July 1973): 6-8.
———. “Gardena: Part Two: Everybody Needs a Helping Hand,” Gidra 5:9(September 1973): 1, 5-8.

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See information on Gardena Valley in Planted in Good Soil.
Gilroy“Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form.
Prepared by James C. Williams and Kent Seavey, 1995.
“Grange Hall/Gilroy Japanese Language School.” California Historic Resources
Inventory Form. Prepared by Alex Yamato, 1980.
“Japanese Community Hall.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared byAlex Yamato, ca. 1980.
Schwaderer, Rae, and Robert I. Orlins. “Cultural Resource Assessment of the Gilroy Hot
Springs Property, Santa Clara County, California.” California Archaeological
Consultants, Inc., for Thomas Reid Associates (May 9, 1990). In Gilroy Hot Springs
Resort Project Environmental Impact Report, Vol. 3, Appendices (August 1991). Santa
Clara County GPA File No. 3956-86-89GP-89z.
Hirasaki, Manabi, with Hirahara, Naomi. A Taste for Strawberries: the Independent
Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi Hirasaki. Los Angeles: Japanese American National
Museum, 2003.
Glendale
Yamada. Katherine. “Church Reflects Japanese history.” Glendale News-Press, October
26, 2007. p. A5.
------------. “Recalling the pre-war community.” Glendale News-Press, October 12.
2007. p. A5
Guadalupe
Asian/Pacific Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay. Exhibit compiled andbooklet edited by members of the Black Gold System Advisory Board. 1995.
Hirahara, Naomi. An American Son: The Story of George Aratani, Founder of Mikasa
and Kenwood. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 2001.
“Guadalupe Buddhist Church.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Preparedby Alex Yamato, 1980.

“Guadalupe Buddhist Church.” In Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First
100 Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.

15“Kings Hand Laundry.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by
Isami Arifuku Waugh, 1980.
Imperial Valley
Asamen, Tim. “Movable House Project,” Keikoku Heigen News: Official Newsletter of
the Japanese American Gallery of the Imperial Valley Pioneers Museum Vol. 20 (Winter2007).
War Relocation Authority. Community Analysis Section. “Imperial Valley: Japanese
Population of Imperial Valley,” Community Analysis Notes No. 12 (April 9, 1945).
Washington, DC: 1945.
See information on Imperial Valley in Planted in Good Soil.
IsletonChu, George. “Chinatowns in the Delta: The Chinese in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta,” California Historical Society Quarterly 49:2 (1970): 20-37.
Crawford, Bruce. Images of America: Isleton. San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
“Isleton Chinese and Japanese Commercial Districts.” National Register of Historic
Places Registration Form. Prepared by Mary L. Maniery and Judith Cunningham for
PAR Environmental Services, July 3, 1990.
“Isleton Oriental School Site.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Preparedby Kay Fujita, 1980.
Shimamoto, Chiyo Mitori. “To the Land of Bright Promise: the Story of a Pioneer
Japanese Truck Farming Family in California’s San Joaquin Valley.” San Joaquin: San
Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, 1990.
Livingston(see also, Yamato Colony)
Japanese Americans of Merced County: A Photographic Journal, 1906-1960. Merced:
Japanese Americans of Merced Committee, 2003. This includes the communities ofMerced, Le Grand, Dos Palos, Cortez, Cressey, and Livingston.
“Livingston United Methodist Church” in A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese
Christian Missions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.

Noda, Kesa. Yamato Colony, 1906-1960: Livingston, California. Livingston:
Livingston-Merced JACL Chapter, 1981.

16“Yamato Colony (California),” in Encyclopedia of Japanese American History. Brian
Niiya, ed. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2001), p. 419.
“Yamato Colony.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Isami
Arifuku Waugh, 1979.
See information on Livingston Yamato Colony in Planted in Good Soil.
Lodi“Buddhist Church of Lodi” in Buddhist Churches of America: A Legacy of the First 100
Years. San Francisco: Buddhist Churches of America, 1998.
Masai, Lisa. “Piecing Together the Past: Preservation of Lodi’s Historic Japantown
Gains Interest.” Nichi-Bei Times, January 1, 2008, p. 7.
“Miyajima Hotel.” California Historic Resources Inventory Form. Prepared by Kay
Fujita, 1980.
Shimamoto, Chiyo Mitori. “To the Land of Bright Promise: the Story of a Pioneer
Japanese Truck Farming Family in California’s San Joaquin Valley.” San Joaquin: San
Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, 1990.
“Stockton-Lodi Gardeners’ Association.” In Plant, Preserve, Protect: A Publication of
the Professional Gardener’s Federation of Northern California. Lewis Kawahara, ed.
San Mateo: Asian American Curriculum Project, 2004.
LompocAsian/Pacific Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay. Exhibit compiled andbooklet edited by members of the Black Gold System Advisory Board, 1995.
LoomisCalifornia Japanese American Community Leadership Council. The Japantowns ofPlacer County. San Francisco, 2007.
Maeda, Wayne. Changing Dreams and Treasured Memories: A Story of JapaneseAmericans in the Sacramento Region. Sacramento: Japanese American Citizens League,
2000.
Long Beach“Harbor District Japanese American Community Center.” California Historic Resources
Inventory Form. Prepared by Michael Tanji, 1980.

17“Interview with Francis and Kiyo Fujimoto,” by Leticia Montoya. Long Beach Historical
Society, 2006.
“Interview with Kimi Sugiyama” by Kaye Briegel. Long Beach Historical Society,1980.
See information on Long Beach in Planted in Good Soil.
Los Angeles(also, Little Tokyo)
A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese Christian Missions in North America,
1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart, 1977.
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