KCJAS.ORG | Heart of America Japan-America Society

Resources and other subjects links related to Japan and American Culture.

We check the validity of these links every couple months, but we cannot be responsible for another sites content. If you find that a link has become disabled, invalid or contains objectionable material, please contact the admin email account on the contact page, noting the link and a description of the problem.

JAS and Regional Links

News (English and Japanese)

Movie and TV Programs about Japan

Films available on DVD from PBS

PBS Nova - Japan's Secret Garden
PBS Nova - Origins of the Ainu
PBS Nova - Secrets of the Samurai Sword
PBS Nova - Sinking the Supership - Yamamoto
PBS - Children of the Camps - Internment History
PBS - Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
PBS - Essential Films by Akira Kurosawa
PBS - History Detectives - Japanese House
PBS - American Experience Bataan Rescue (Philippines)

US Government Produced Films, Old Propaganda and otherwise

Several of the propaganda films below could easily be deemed offensive and are here linked as an historical perspective. If you are offended by war and propaganda subject matter, do not watch these films. If you do choose to watch them, it may be valuable to read some of the comments left by others on the movie pages at the Internet Archive to see what viewers have said about them. There are many sides and opinions of war and in many ways it is completely incomprehensible.

Documentary prior to Pearl harbor - Children of Japan available at the internet archive. 10 min.
Documentary post Pearl Harbor 1943 - Our Enemy, The Japanese - 19 min (U.S. Naval Propaganda Film)
Propaganda Film - My Japan - Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.
U.S. Gov't Film - Japanese Relocation (ca. 1943) - U.S. government-produced film defending the World War II internment of Japanese American citizens.
U.S. Gov't film - A Tale of Two Cities (1946) - How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
U.S. Propaganda Film - A Challenge To Democracy - Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.