Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

What legal and social discrimination did Japanese Americans face in the United States historically? What are the similarities and differences between the Japanese American experience and those of other ethnic or racial groups?

What were the sociocultural differences between Hawaiian and mainland Japanese Americans during World War II? How were Issei and Nisei different and similar? What do these differences say about Japanese American identity?

What were the most important contributions of 442nd and 522nd to the Allied war effort and why? How were these successes treated in theater? Domestically?