This section consists of resources to begin researching your Japanese American ancestry. Also included are general emigrant lists and resources from Japan that cover no specific locality. You will also find emigrant letters back to their homelands and biographical sketches of emigrant arrivals. Gaining knowledge of a movement or people can help you define the questions you want to investigate in your own family history.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.