The Big Aiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature, published in 1991, is a collection, edited by Jeffery Paul Chan and Frank Chin, of over a century of writing by Asian Americans.

May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow: An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku, compiled by Violet Kazue De Cristoforo, is a 1997 collection of haiku poetry written by Japanese Americans in Word War II internment camps.

Snow Falling on Cedars is David Guterson's 1994 novel about the trial of a Japanese American accused of murdering a fellow fisherman in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Complications arise because of the relationship that the journalist covering the trial had with the accused man's wife before World War II and the internment of the town's Japanese Americans. The novel received the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Monica Stone's Nisei...